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<br>AHMEDABAD, India, March 19 (Reuters) - India captain Virat Kohli has called for changes to the 'soft-signal' rule for outfield catches after team mate Suryakumar Yadav was controversially dismissed in Thursday's Twenty20 International against England.<br> <br>Yadav smashed 57 before his pull shot sailed to deep square leg where Dawid Malan took a tumbling low catch.<br><br>As England celebrated, on-field umpire K N Ananthapadmanabhan gave the soft signal of 'out' before sending the decision to TV umpire Virender Sharma.<br> <br>On-field umpires give a 'soft signal' based on their intuition when there is a tight call, making a decision before asking the TV umpire to look at it again from different angles in slow motion.<br> <br>TV umpires must uphold the soft signal decision unless they have conclusive evidence to overturn it.<br> <br>Replays of Thursday's incident suggested the ball might have touched the grass but Sharma was not fully convinced and upheld Ananthapadmanabhan's decision.<br> <br>Kohli said during the presentation ceremony it was impossible for an on-field umpire to clearly see whether a catch taken in the deep was clean or not.<br> <br>"Why can't there be an, 'I don't know' call from the umpire?" Kohli said after India levelled the five-match series at 2-2.<br> <br>"Why does it have to be conclusive? These things sometimes can really change the course of a whole game.<br> <br>"You want these things ironed out as much as possible,  [http://wiki.lynthornealder.com/index.php?title=Rod_Marsh_In_Hospital_After_Heart_Attack wiki.lynthornealder.com] keep this game simple, keep it linear, have one set of rules which are not grey areas."<br> <br>Former India test player VVS Laxman wondered what was the point of "...<br><br>watching so many replays using top class technology and still go by the soft signal ..."<br> <br>"I think this rule needs to be revisited and changed," Laxman tweeted.<br> <br>Former England spinner Graeme Swann called it a "stinking decision" while seamer Stuart Broad echoed Kohli's view.<br> <br>"It's the 'soft signal' which is odd. Hard for off field umpire to overturn ..." Broad tweeted.<br> <br>India and England play the decider at Ahmedabad on Saturday.<br><br>(Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in Siliguri, India; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<br>