You know that thing where you wave to someone you know and then realize it’s not them so you try to play it off like you were adjusting your hair? Yeah, that happened to an umpire during an Australia vs. India cricket match:
Cricket umpire botches a call and hilariously tries to play it off by scratching his head
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Chris Gaffaney got into a weird spot when he started signaling that Indian batsman Cheteshwar Pujara was out by raising his finger:
Then he realized he messed up and tried to turn it into a head scratch:
It’s even better because of the hat he’s wearing. So it’s just a dude scratching his hat and trying to pretend he never screwed up. We’ve all been there.
