Kumar Sangakkara led criticism of a marginal DRS call which fell in England's favour on the second morning in Nottingham, arguing that third umpire Adrian Holdstock had taken insufficient time before making his decision.
Mitchell Santner was given out caught by on-field umpire Nitin Menon after deflecting a back-of-a-length ball from Ben Stokes to Jacob Bethell in the gully, and immediately reviewed the decision. Santner pointed to his arm guard, hidden under his long sleeves, when Stokes queried why he had reviewed, and Stokes pointed to the sweatband of Santner's glove.
It took only 36 seconds from the start of the first replay before Menon upheld his initial decision. Holdstock concluded, after watching one replay and seeing a split-screen with UltraEdge, that the ball had hit the sweatband, which is considered part of the bat under Appendix A.2.5 of the MCC's Laws of Cricket. "The ball makes contact with the glove," Holdstock said.
Santner appeared to be bemused by the decision and looked quizzically at Menon before walking off, and Sangakkara, commentating on Sky Sports, immediately questioned whether the ball had hit the sweatband.
A further, side-on angle broadcast by Sky cast further doubt on whether the ball had brushed the sweatband. That replay would have been available to Holdstock, had he asked for further evidence.
"You got to ask the question: why weren't the other replays warranted, in terms of making that call?" Sangakkara said. "You have so many different angles you need to ask for. On this [angle], it seems it might have touched. But on the other angle, you see clearly that he's not [touched the ball].
"One thing [Holdstock could do] is to ask for the right angles, take your time, make a decision because there are crucial ones in any format of the game at crucial times, and sometimes, taking the time to really analyse every angle possible that is available to you as a third umpire might be advisable.
"When something gets referred, the third umpire has a lot of time - as much as he needs - to understand what replays are available and what [the] actual angle is, in terms of making that decision."
Sangakkara's Sky colleagues Mark Butcher and Dinesh Karthik disagreed that the wrong decision had been reached, but Butcher supported the view that Holdstock had been "a little quick on the trigger finger".
If Holdstock had deemed that the evidence from the replays was inconclusive, he would still have advised Menon to uphold his initial on-field decision.
Daryl Mitchell, who himself appeared to feel hard done by when given out caught behind when his bat was close to his front pad, suggested at the close of play that New Zealand had been on the wrong end of the DRS.
"That's the wonderful game that we play," he said. "Sometimes you get good ones, and sometimes you get ones you don't agree with, and it's the nature of the game. What I think probably doesn't really matter because I'm out.
"All you want as a player is for the person to make the right decision at the end of the day... This football World Cup that's going on at the moment, VAR [video assistant referee], you guys are always arguing about that. I'll let you discuss it.
"For us as players, we just want the right outcome to happen however that comes about. Whether it takes [a] long or short [time], I don't really mind."