Smith catch: 'Mark Waugh is having a bit of a meltdown on TV'

There have been a swathe of emails during the first session. Thanks for all those and apologies for not getting to them sooner.

There was a stack of emails in the first session, thanks for those and sorry for the delay in getting to them.

Sam from New Zealand reckons the third umpire made the right call disallowing the Kohli catch: “Mark Waugh is having a bit of a meltdown on the TV. They seem to think Smith having a finger under the ball makes it not out, but the rule clearly states that if the ball is moving while touching the ground (which the evidence showed) then it has to be not out. If Smith had a clean grasp on the ball he would have held it, not flicked it up.”

Gervase Greene adds his tuppence: “Smith I’m sure believes he scooped the ball up cleanly, with no ground involved… but the fact is the slipper is rarely in the best position to know. The upward momentum of the ball will feel the same whether it bounced solely off his finger(s) or not. Doesn’t make him a liar or a cheat, but it does mean the video review rightly has to judge. A fair call, imo.”

Rowan Sweeney has a darker theory: “Did Australia steal Joel Wilson’s girlfriend or something? At this point it seems personal.”

And Geoff Wignall wonders whether Rohit Sharma’s decision to rest himself from this fifth Test has added balance to the India XI – or sent it skew-whiff. “On recent form, Sharma ‘resting himself’ ought to strengthen the Indian batting; but Jadeja at 6 and Bumrah at 9? Hmm…”

Cheers Geoff, given Bumrah scored a pair in the last Test I reckon India should have dropped him ;) Rohit’s “rest” might well be Jasprit’s salvation!