Aussie women’s Ashes team get ripped off by shocking umpiring mistake in first Test

Australia have fallen victim to a DRS drama in the women’s Ashes Test with Jess Jonassen given out after England took approximately 20 seconds to ask for a review.

Jonassen was caught in close trying to sweep spinner Sophie Ecclestone, but the appeal was initially turned down on-field by on-field umpire Anna Harris.

It then took several seconds for the DRS countdown timer to appear on the Trent Bridge big screen, before England finished deliberating and opted to review.

Replays of the incident show it took approximately 20 seconds for England to decide to send the decision upstairs, where Jonassen was given out with the ball brushing her glove.

Under ICC rules, players have 15 seconds to launch a review.

Jonassen departs for 11, kickstarting a collapse that saw her side lose three wickets for just 12 runs in a tightly fought first day at Trent Bridge

‘The total time elapsed between the ball becoming dead and the review request being made shall be no more than 15 seconds,’ playing conditions state.

‘If the on-field umpires believe that a request has not been made within the 15 second time limit, they shall decline the request for a player review.’

Jonassen’s wicket proved crucial as it started a minor collapse of 3-12 with Alyssa Healy bowled for 0 by Ecclestone and Perry caught at gully on 99 off Lauren Filer.

Perry said there was no objection from Australia on-field over England’s ability to review.

‘From a player perspective, whether it is England or us, that is the time that was given and put up on the screen,’ Perry said.

There was heartbreak for Ellyse Perry (pictured), who fell on 99 when she was clean bowled

England’s Sophie Ecclestone celebrates Perry’s dismissal. The pick of the English attack, she took three wickets, including the controversial removal of Jonassen

‘How long that took to come up, I am not sure. It’s something perhaps the officials can review.

‘But from a playing perspective you just have to adapt to whatever is out there and I think there were five seconds left on the clock.’

It is not the first time Australia have been on the wrong side of a DRS situation in the match, albeit with the first one entirely self-inflicted.

Debutante Phoebe Litchfield was given out lbw trying to leave Kate Cross early in the day, and walked immediately off the field without properly consulting non-striker Beth Mooney.

Ball-tracking replays then showed the ball that was angling across Litchfield would have missed off-stump, meaning the decision would have been overturned and she would have been not out had she reviewed.