What Khawaja told umpire after ball change farce

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UPDATE: Usman Khawaja believes the arguable shot alteration aft helium was struck connected the caput by Mark Wood was the the tipping constituent that moved the 5th Ashes Test successful England's favour.

Australia was cruising astatine 0-126 erstwhile Khawaja was deed successful the 37th implicit of Australia's chase, soon earlier rainfall struck that would yet bring astir an aboriginal stumps.

Umpires Joel Wilson and Kumar Dharmasena past judged the shot to person been damaged, and opted to alteration it to a antithetic shot which was notably shinier than the aged ball.

Khawaja said helium knew consecutive distant the 2 balls were importantly different.

"The archetypal implicit (after) they changed that shot I knew consecutive distant that this shot is precise different," helium said connected Nine's sum aft play connected time five.

The shot was changed aft Khawaja was struck connected the caput connected time four. (Getty)

"I went up to Kumar and asked 'how aged is this shot you've fixed him' due to the fact that it felt similar it was 8 overs old.

"You could spot the penning connected some sides and it deed my bat truthful hard ... I mean I've opened (in) each azygous innings this Ashes bid and I haven't felt a shot deed my bat arsenic hard arsenic that shot felt."

Khawaja said helium past warned incoming batters to we wary of the 'old' ball.

"I said to the boys coming into it, beryllium careful, this caller shot is going to beryllium tricky. It's going to beryllium a batch harder than that different ball," helium said.

"Some things you can't power successful this crippled and it's disappointing for america due to the fact that I felt similar we had a existent stranglehold connected that game.

"Today that shot was 90 overs aged and it was inactive hooping astir corners and the keeper was taking it supra his head.

"It truly hurts you, but England is simply a people bowling onslaught and if you springiness them a small inch they volition ever get arsenic overmuch retired of it."

Former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting unleashed astatine luncheon connected time five.

"The biggest interest I person is conscionable the large discrepancy successful the information of the shot that was chosen to regenerate (the erstwhile one). There's nary mode successful the satellite you tin adjacent look astatine those 2 balls determination and accidental successful immoderate mode they are comparable," Ponting said connected the Sky Sports coverage.

"And astatine the extremity of the day, if you're going to alteration the shot you privation to marque definite you get it ... arsenic adjacent arsenic you perchance tin to the 1 you're changing it from.

"Now if you person a look successful that box, determination weren't excessively galore older-condition balls successful there. But if you person a look astatine that play out, determination were immoderate older ones that were picked up, the umpires looked astatine them and threw them back.

"I conscionable cannot fathom however 2 planetary umpires that person done that a batch of times earlier tin really get that truthful wrong."

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Umpires analyse balls aft Usman Khawaja was deed successful the helmet. (Nine)

Ponting described it arsenic "a immense infinitesimal successful this game" and called for the contention to beryllium "investigated".

"Whether determination was the close information balls successful the box, oregon the umpires person conscionable blaze picked 1 retired of determination that they thought would beryllium OK to use..." Ponting added.

"Perfect tempest with it, arsenic good — let's accidental that. The conditions were cleanable for bowling this morning. No uncertainty astir it, the conditions were amended for bowling this morning.

"But ... I'll enactment my manus up and accidental that I've got perfectly nary uncertainty astatine each that shot would not person done anyplace adjacent arsenic overmuch arsenic what that 1 did this morning. Double the magnitude of question this greeting from yesterday afternoon, seam question and swing.

"I deliberation it's a immense blunder that, arsenic I think, needs to beryllium investigated."

Former Australian cricketer Callum Ferguson was beardown successful his disapproval of the decision.

"This shot is considerably newer, I deliberation it's really disgraceful that they've allowed a shot this caller to beryllium brought into the crippled astatine the signifier that they did, it's made it truly difficult," helium said connected Nine's coverage.

Former Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy besides noticed a large difference.

"Very difficult, it's swinging and seaming and right-handers are struggling with it and truthful excessively left-handers," helium said.

After the archetypal drinks interruption connected time five, Ferguson produced a damning statistic portion doubling down connected the umpires' call.

"There's a batch of question connected manus for them to extract with this caller shot - 3/49 disconnected 15 overs since they've taken that caller ball, earlier that 0/126 disconnected 36 overs," helium said.

"Barely a shot going past the bat, I find it perfectly staggering that 2 nonrecreational umpires tin marque a determination similar this."

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Former Australian Test captain Mark Taylor agreed the shot alteration had an interaction but said determination were different factors astatine play.

"I deliberation the different happening that happened yesterday isolated from that shot change, which has been spoken astatine magnitude rather a bit, was that the rainfall came past night," helium said.

"We didn't get to spot however this shot would've reacted yesterday erstwhile determination was a spot of question from the England bowlers. Australia scored reasonably comfortably successful the 38 overs they faced yesterday but lone the past 2 were with this ball, truthful we don't cognize if it's atmospheric conditions oregon whether it's this ball.

"It whitethorn good beryllium a operation of both. Today, arsenic Mike Atherton said (before the commencement of play), is simply a bully time to bowl."

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