Ricky Ponting has labelled Joe Root’s DRS dummy spit ‘a horrible look for the game’

TEST great Ricky Ponting has slammed England skipper Joe Root for ordering Mark Stoneman to stay on the field despite being given out, describing it as “a horrible look for the game”.

Joe Root was again dismissed cheaply.

TEST great Ricky Ponting has slammed England skipper Joe Root for backhanding a dressing room door in frustration, describing it as “a horrible look for the game”.

The sight of Root losing control of his emotions summed up the biting tension of an old style Wild West shootout at the WACA.

Root was so angered by third umpire Aleem Dar’s decision to over-rule an on-field call and give anchorman Mark Stoneman out caught behind, he momentarily appeared outside the dressing room and urged him to stay on the ground.

Joe Root was again dismissed cheaply.

He clearly felt Dar had acted incorrectly in hurriedly over-ruling the call despite evidence suggesting that the glove which deflected the ball may have been off the bat at the time of contact, therefore saving the batsmen.

Root was hoping a few more replays may prompt controversy magnet Dar to change his mind but when the on-field umpires waved Stoneman off the field Root punched the door in frustration.

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It was not quite with the same fury that former South African captain Hansie Cronje displayed when he speared a dressing room door in Adelaide after a controversial decision went Mark Waugh’s way, but the young skipper’s frustration was obvious.

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Ponting was critical of Root’s actions on BT Sport, saying replays had shown the England skipper should have stayed in the box.

“The thing about the decision being made when it was as well, it’s actually made Joe Root and a lot of the England guys look silly,” said Ponting.

“They’re out on the balcony complaining about the decision … but as it’s turned out, it was the right call.

“Stoneman’s three-quarters of the way off, knowing probably in his own heart of hearts that he’s got a glove on it. Then he’s been told that he has to go back out because they can’t see it. He thinks he’s out and then suddenly he’s back in. It’s a horrible look for the game.”

Joe Root ordered Mark Stoneman to stay on the field after being given out.

The Ashes are on the line in Perth and the fall of Stoneman for 56 following a brutal examination from Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc had the potential to prove a turning point in an absorbing tussle.

It didn’t, but Root could barely hide his frustration.

Later replays shown after Stoneman had reached the dressing room appeared to confirm the ball had touched the glove.

However, serious doubt was cast over whether Dar had followed the right process to reach his decision.

In the Nine commentary box, Michael Clarke and Michael Slater argued that the evidence wasn’t sufficient enough to overturn the original not-out decision by umpire Marais Erasmus on field.

“I’m really surprised that was given ... it looked like it came after the glove,” Slater said on Nine.

Clarke said he disagreed with the concept of overturning without sufficient evidence.

“This is the concern for me about DRS. If the umpire gives it not out on the field, there is not conclusive evidence in Hotspot and snicko (to overturn),” he said.

“There is one replay I think it looks like it touches the top glove, the glove that’s on the bat. But is it conclusive evidence to overturn that decision? It’s a big call.

“If there is uncertainty - you have to stick to the umpire’s call on the field.”

The ball flicks Mark Stoneman’s glove.

Mark Taylor said it was the right call, but a bad look for umpire Dar.

“I think he overturned without sufficient evidence because the final angle showed the ball did flick the glove was shown after he had overturned the decision,” former Australian captain Taylor said on Channel Nine.

“At the end of the day justice has been done but he didn’t quite get it right. He needed to look at one more angle.”