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  14. ADMIN
    The Ageas Bowl in Southampton finally saw some cricket on Saturday when the dicey England weather showed some mercy, and Day 2 of the World Test Championship between India and New Zealand led to some action, albeit not the complete 90-over day.
    Nonetheless, Team India captain Virat Kohli had to the pitch to bat sooner than he had hoped for after the top-order of Rohit Sharma, Shuman Gill and Cheteshwar Pujara got wrapped up at 88.
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    To make matters worse for the skipper, the on-field umpires Michael Gough and Richard Illingworth, ended up creating a total mess when in the 40th over of the innings, Trent Boult appealed for a caught-behind and the officials decided to go to the third umpire to get a clearer conclusion. 
    Since it was the umpires’ wish to go upstairs, while New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson had not even taken a DRS review, the only thing they should have checked for was if catch taken by wicketkeeper BJ Watling was clean or not.
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    However, they went a step further and even brought out the UltraEdge to check if Kohli’s bat had nudged the ball before it went into the hands of the keeper. 
    Luckily for the Indian skipper, the space between his willow and the ball was big enough to make a conclusive decision but still, the umpires essentially gifted a free DRS to the Black Caps.
    Law 2.2 of the ICC Test Playing Conditions deals with Caught Decisions and Obstructing the Field states:
    “The third umpire shall determine whether the batsman has been caught, whether the delivery was a Bump Ball, or if the batsman obstructed the field. However, in reviewing the television replay(s), the third umpire shall first check the fairness of the delivery for all decisions involving a catch (all modes of No ball except for (i) in respect of the front foot, which shall already have been checked in accordance with clause 21.5; and (ii) the bowler using an Illegal Bowling Action, subject to the proviso that the third umpire may review whether the bowler has used a prohibited Specific Variation under Article 6.2 of the Illegal Bowling Regulations) and whether the batsman has hit the ball.
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    The incident left the batsman agitated and angry which was clearly visible in his eyes but given the stature of the match he was playing in and the unique circumstances he found himself in, he smiled helplessly in the end.
    Kohli’s anger was shared by former Indian opener Virender Sehwag and a majority of the Team India fans who couldn’t believe how the officials couldn’t see the possible loophole and rather stepped right into it.
    Good on Simon Doull to clarify the incident on air, but it exposes a loophole in the system as it stands. Umpire reviews in cases like these must only be for fair catches. Otherwise it will always leave one team feeling aggrieved. https://t.co/whFkqPIJF3
    — Raunak Kapoor (@RaunakRK) June 19, 2021#WTC2021#INDvsNZ

    *Kane discussing whether to take review or not with his teammates*

    *Le umpire pic.twitter.com/JgF6wDuDsn
    — Rahbar (@sarcasticEngi) June 19, 2021So umpire just lost a review? Haha
    — //ded reach era (@nachosinthewood) June 19, 2021Funny umpiring there with Virat.
    No decision given by the umpire and it automatically became a review.
    Tuning in to the Women’s test match for the time being , hoping for Harman and Punam to save the Test match.
    — Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) June 19, 2021If it was umpire's review then why did they check with ultra-edge? Bizarre!
    — Rohit Yadav (@cricrohit) June 19, 2021
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    We live in the 21st century and still, there are some people who are not as evolved and are still stuck in the old, stereotypical, misogynistic mindset.  
    Objectifying women and rating them based on their appearance is a concept that would make most people gag in this day and age, however, to our disgust, it's still happening. 
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    While it's hard for us to even fathom this, a contemporary art museum in Shanghai displayed a piece of work ranking thousands of young women based on their looks. 

    Turns out, the museum found this act 'appropriate'. 
    The male artist named Song Ta made a seven-hour-long video in which he included photos and videos of anonymous women walking on the streets to the college campus. 
    He compiled it together and made a video out of it, adding his opinion and ranked them from 'prettiest to ugliest'. It was on display at the non-profit gallery named OCAT Shanghai. Not just that, the video is titled "Uglier and Uglier".
    After this event, a huge uproar was seen on Chinese social media platforms that forced the museum to take down the video, as it was controversial work.
    A disturbing dose of Chinese contemporary art: Song Ta, a video artist, has a piece called "Uglier and Uglier" is in exhibition in OCAT Shanghai. This 7+ hrs long video displays secretly shot footage of college girls ranked from the "prettiest" to the "ugliest." pic.twitter.com/COtSWEF7Xa
    — Afra Wang (@afrazhaowang) June 17, 2021
    The video garnered millions of views with people commenting and calling the video an outrageous violation of privacy and display of misogyny. 
    A user commented, "I hope that every woman featured in his video will sue him and make him spend the rest of his life in prison."
    Here's how the people on Twitter reacted.
    Misogynous he is, the artist says bluntly that "to see the campus queen, you need to go to the museum early." I couldn't think of a more dismissive and violent way to objectifies women.
    — Afra Wang (@afrazhaowang) June 17, 2021Western beauty norms are characterised along the same lines. The classifications and distinctions are emoted differentLy.
    — Poosnip (@cumblechook) June 19, 2021This is absolutely horrifying. He should have titled it "Portrait of My Own Misogyny" and threw it straight in the trash. It's additional proof that anyone claiming to be "anti-political-correctness" is just anti-basic-respect-decency-and-compassion. 🤬
    — Gray 🇭🇰 is vaxxed (@grayishungry) June 18, 2021As justification, Song branded his work as intentionally anti-political-correct to reveal the truth. Darn it. The only truth I learned is the dehumanizing drive within the creator of the so-called art, to say the least.
    — Jasper Yang (@JasperZaiCi) June 17, 2021Wow. What an awful invasion of privacy for these women, on top of the objectification. This kind of shit contributes to poor self-image & mental ill-health. I know that art should be controversial & promote debate, but this is just vile.
    — Conius of Moo 林冬青 (@coneymoo) June 18, 2021What the actual ****. What is this “art” even trying to say? How dare they call themself and their work “art” &”artist”!?
    — hemily (@emilyhsiang) June 18, 2021Extra gross given the women's ages, too - adults, but barely. I wish this surprised me more.
    — Lisa Movius (@lisamovius) June 17, 2021The gallery has now come forward and apologised for the disrespectful remark. 
    They said in a statement, "found that the concept of the work and the English title involved disrespect and offence to female friends and the way the work was filmed was suspected of infringement." 
    It's also unclear if women's consent was taken before the shooting.

    The museum people also said, "We would like to express our sincere apologies to all the audience and friends who were troubled, uncomfortable and hurt due to the adverse effects caused by this work on display in our museum."
    In an interview back in 2019, Song Ta described the work process and said "I don’t see a problem objectifying women because people objectify others all the time, regardless of gender. The thing is you have to judge others fairly". 
    He called the process 'complicated and time-consuming' as he hired three assistants to do the ranking and divide women into different categories.
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    This isn't the first time Song has been in the news. 

    In 2013 as well, the project attained quite a stir at the Beijing-based UCCA Center Of Contemporary art exhibition. A Chinese curator and art critic, named Táng Zéhuì唐泽慧 called his work 'deeply problematic' and said it objectifies and exploits women.
    For another exhibition in Wuhan in 2013, he also did another project named One Worse Than The Other. In this, at least 44 women were chosen to walk on the runway and were rated from the most attractive to the least attractive. 
    The museum issued a public apology and have promised to remove the video, immediately.

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