Ishan Kishan plays a practical joke on Tom Latham by trying to make him believe he is Hardik Pandya, complete with his bizarre dismissal

In the first one-day international between India and New Zealand, which took place on Wednesday in Hyderabad, an avoidable on-field incident occurred as a result of the strange dismissal of India all-rounder Hardik Pandya.

The decision to bowl Hardik, who was 28 at the time, was made by the third umpire, K. N. Anantha Padmanabhan, and was met with some criticism.

The bails were removed and New Zealand filed an appeal for a bowled dismissal after the batsman failed to play a cut shot at all when it was delivered by medium pacer Daryl Mitchell.

Tom Latham, the wicketkeeper and captain of the New Zealand cricket team, had his gloves quite close to the stumps at the time of the incident; therefore, he was unsure if he had accidentally removed the bails or whether the ball had clipped the stumps.

The replays did not provide any clear evidence, but the third umpire made a decision that favoured the visitors, which caused Hardik to depart the field in a foul mood.

Hardik’s colleagues were also unhappy with the decision, and when Latham got into the middle with New Zealand needing 350 runs to win, India keeper Ishan Kishan copied Latham’s tendency of putting his hands behind the wicket, which is perilously close to the stumps.

Kishan removed the bails in jest, but the Indians made a mock request for a stumping on the first ball that Latham faced from the off-spinner Kuldeep Yadav. The delivery was a leg-spinner.

Despite the fact that Latham was clearly inside the crease, Kishan proceeded with the appeal anyway, which Sunil Gavaskar, a former captain of India, did not find to be to his liking.

Gavaskar stated while on television that removing the bails was OK, but that the defendant should not have appealed. In the same way that the event delighted Kishan, it also made Latham laugh.