*Official* England in West Indies

[Neil Pickup]

Please read what I am writing.

I am explaining WHY the decision has been made. The content of my post is NOT my opinion.

This is the letter of the regulations to my understanding: that the third umpire must work on fact. A fact is the ball pitching outside leg stump, or an inside edge having been taken on the way through. These are not predictions!

Now, this will be interesting...

This must be not out.

I'm pretty convinced this is hitting the bails, but MUST be not out.

 

[Neil Pickup]

This must be not out.

I'm pretty convinced this is hitting the bails, but MUST be not out.

That is ****ing stupid. End of my attempt to defend the umpires.

 

[four_or_six]

Oh ffs, that's ridiculous.

I wish Bob Willis was in the studio.

 

[Richard]

Oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear.

Daryl Harper needs to be taken off the ICC Elite Panel. He is simply not good enough.

 

[Jarquis]

It is out!
I personally thought it was going to hit the stumps, but going on the result of previous referrals and the basis of "consistency" assumed it was going to be given not out....
Jeez,

 

[inbox24]

What the hell is going on here!

 

[popepouri]

Bull****!

 

[Jigga988]

So... the third umpire has overturned two decisions in England's favour and none in ours... Chanders was the most obvious one to overturn yet that was the only decision kept.... This is absolute bull**** and unacceptable in every way give me a break! what jokes they have for umpires... if we can't avoid the follow on this will be such a huge...

It's friking cheating...

 

[ozone]

Darryll Harper = Useless ****.

 

[Richard]

Haha, I'd hope a smart man like yourself can tell when someone is using humour to make a point.

I can. I would say "the same applies to you", but evidence has long since shown that precious few on CW can tell when I'm using humour. I just don't like a YES, THIS PART OF THIS POST WAS IN JEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in the middle of a post.

 

[Uppercut]

It was totally out for me. Not as out as Chanderpaul's was in. ****ing joke though. Absolute farce.

EDIT: Haha, hawkeye says it's going over. Well, i don't know what to say. That's a dreadful decision.

 

[Neil Pickup]

So... the third umpire has overturned two decisions in England's favour and none in ours... Chanders was the most obvious one to overturn yet that was the only decision kept.... This is absolute bull**** and unacceptable in every way give me a break! what jokes they have for umpires... if we can't avoid the follow on this will be such a huge...

It's friking cheating...

It is not cheating. Please do not descend the discussion of the point at hand to that. There is no reason why an official would want to cheat.

It is confusion and incompetence.

 

[Richard]

So... the third umpire has overturned two decisions in England's favour and none in ours... Chanders was the most obvious one to overturn yet that was the only decision kept.... This is absolute bull**** and unacceptable in every way give me a break! what jokes they have for umpires... if we can't avoid the follow on this will be such a huge...

It's friking cheating...

Daryl Harper isn't a cheat. He's just a completely and totally hopeless Umpire, always has been, and is always going to be.

It's a disaster having him on the Elite Panel.

 

[four_or_six]

Not often Nasser Hussain is speechless.

Did Harper not see the Hawkeye trace after his last bad decision?

 

[sammy2]

I am afraid to log onto carib cricket ... they must be fuming for good reasons. ohwell. The plan is clear, england must win. loolololololilolololol

 

[inbox24]

If the system's going to be this bad and inconsistent, then why have it at all? Cricket's survived more than a century without it so why fix something that ain't broke.

 

[Nate]

Ramdin for a triple ton here.


*Please note, the above means I would like Ramdin to bat well and make some runs. I do not actually believe Ramdin will actually make 300 Test runs this innings.

Glad I could clear this up.

Your friend,
Nath.

 

[Neil Pickup]

I am trying to understand how there is any possible argument from any spectrum to understand why that decision has been made. I'm usually pretty good at working out exactly where wrong answers come from in children's maths books, and I thought I made a pretty good effort at legislating for the Chanderpaul not out.

Yet I cannot see any reason at all for the Nash LBW to be reversed. Had it been given out, there would have been no reason for it to be given not out: yet once given not out, there is absolutely no way that Harper can say it is fact that Dar's decision was wrong. None, from any possible perspective. It is quite simply an appalling decision and one that should result in suspension or removal of Harper from the elite panel of umpires. He is not doing his job.

 

[popepouri]

The reason to not use the predictive element of hawkeye is hilarious.

 

[Jigga988]

Daryl Harper isn't a cheat. He's just a completely and totally hopeless Umpire, always has been, and is always going to be.

It's a disaster having him on the Elite Panel.

Obviously I know he's not intentially cheating that was just said in the heat of the moment... but times like this make you think the cricketing World is going against you...