India, Dec. 6 -- There may have been more instances of captain Rohit Sharma denying Kuldeep Yadav a shot at DRS but on Saturday, during the series-deciding third and final ODI against South Africa in Visakhapatnam, a non-captain Rohit stopped Kuldeep at least thrice. India's stand-in captain, KL Rahul, who is leading the side in the ODI series in regular skipper Shubman Gill's absence, had very little role to play in any of them. Rohit alone was enough to shoo Kuldeep away.

Rohit, aided by Virat Kohli, did not let go of the opportunity to pull Kuldeep's leg in between. It all transpired between the 43rd and the 45th over of the South African innings when Kuldeep was denied a shot at a review three times, and on all three occasions, the b...