Umpiring standards have come under scrutiny at the Women's World Cup 2025 , which has witnessed numerous contentious calls in its first two-and-a-half weeks. The most conspicuous of these mistakes have appeared around the use of the decision review system (DRS), which is only sporadically used in the women's game. As such, the umpires' experience with DRS protocols has come under the spotlight.

One of the most notable mis-steps occurred in the match between England and Bangladesh, when Heather Knight got three reprieves, one of which was a low catch by Shorna Akter . On 13 at the time, with England chasing 179, Knight chipped legspinner Fahima Khatum to Shorna at cover.

Knight was happy to walk off , but TV umpire Gayathri Venugopalan ruled otherwise based on "inconclusive" eviden

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