dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
Rain coming and Harris edging into every gap on the field.
Tensionnnnnnnnnn.
Tensionnnnnnnnnn.
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***Official*** South Africa In Australia
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As was Hussey being caught off the helmet
These umpires suffer from temporary blindness
FaaipDeOiad
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Wasn't dodgy at all. Look at the rear angle, was a clean take and a reasonable decision. But wait, it's Australia, so have a bit of a whinge anyway.
That LBW call though...
susudear
Banned
Woot?
I did not say it was a terrible call.
But the front angle + the freeze frame supplied by Inbox showed there was more of a chance that the ball might have hit the ground.
You must be kidding.
I did not say it was a terrible call.
But the front angle + the freeze frame supplied by Inbox showed there was more of a chance that the ball might have hit the ground.
If only someone could come up with a mechanism whereby the players could refer such blatant mistakes to the third umpire to correct...
FaaipDeOiad
Hall of Fame Member
Yes, that's the way cameras work. The ball looks closer to the ground than it really is, as shown from the rear angle. You can see daylight between his fingers and the ground ffs.
susudear
Banned
FaaipDeOiad
Hall of Fame Member
Why so optimistic? I reckon Harris will crack an unbeaten 150 off 90 deliveries and SA will cruise home for a win.
Johnners
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It's likely that Steyn will now clobber 40 from 20, we're no chance.
NUFAN
Y no Afghanistan flag
Inbox empty.
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
Solid call.
Inbox doing his best SS impression here IMO...
You want to clear up obvious errors but IMHO if everytime a marginal call is made you have to spend several minutes looking at various angles etc it would interrupt and slow down the game too much.
Maybe have 2 (or 3) umps watching video footage. (3rd ump and match ref are already there) They have 3 options out, undecided and not-out. They have 5 seconds to make a call, cause if your taking longer longer then that it obviously isn't an obvious error.
No referalls, no endless replays, no time wasting. Only the on feild umps get to see the results and only overturns if all off-feilds umps have given same decision.
Something like that should get rid of absolute shocking decisons but not interrupt the flow of the game or hopefully undermine the umps (like I fear referals might.) Your not going to remove every contentious call but I don't think it is possible to ever decide every decision unanimously (just to many grey areas) and not everybody is going to agree (sometimes on what appears to me as clear cut decisions) Some contentious calls after all do give us all something to talk (whine) about. (And the losers some reason to often think the loss was unjustified.)
Maybe have 2 (or 3) umps watching video footage. (3rd ump and match ref are already there) They have 3 options out, undecided and not-out. They have 5 seconds to make a call, cause if your taking longer longer then that it obviously isn't an obvious error.
No referalls, no endless replays, no time wasting. Only the on feild umps get to see the results and only overturns if all off-feilds umps have given same decision.
Something like that should get rid of absolute shocking decisons but not interrupt the flow of the game or hopefully undermine the umps (like I fear referals might.) Your not going to remove every contentious call but I don't think it is possible to ever decide every decision unanimously (just to many grey areas) and not everybody is going to agree (sometimes on what appears to me as clear cut decisions) Some contentious calls after all do give us all something to talk (whine) about. (And the losers some reason to often think the loss was unjustified.)
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FaaipDeOiad
Hall of Fame Member
It's really not that cloudy here. I doubt we'll get rain any time soon. An hour or so at least.
New ball after tea will hopefully do the trick.
New ball after tea will hopefully do the trick.
