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benchmark00

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Need to come down from that days play.

Gonna go kick the next door neighbour's dog for about half an hour.

Catch.
 
andyc

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honestbharani said:
Again, how good was Clarke's innings? Serious question here, btw.. I didn't watch it. But sounds like it was all kinds of awesome...
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It was ****ing good. One of the best I've seen. From what I saw of him today though, he was a lot better yesterday.

pup11 said:
So near yet so far.... that dropped catch sums up this game perfectly from an Oz pov...
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They secured an almost 200 run lead in the first innings tbf. It's only the most recent session that's really let them down so far, albeit in a massive way.
 
smash84

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tbf the Aussie total got some respectability due to the extreme end of the tail wagging. Heck they were 21/9
 
smash84

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how bad was the umpiring in the match though. Thankfully they had DRS.

Of late the umpiring has been piss poor. First the pak-sl series and now this
 
Athlai

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The last 5 hours in this thread are the finest posts I've ever read on CW. :laugh:

It's absolutely hilarious, Aussie's suffering, Aussie's gloating, Aussie's dying. This has to be one of the weirdest matches of all time.
 
pup11

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DRS has been a huge part of this game so far and has been very useful as well but without sounding too negative the ball tracking system is really starting to make very little sense, the game is designed in such a way that it is meant to provide the benefit of the doubt to the batter and if hawk-eye is being used to provide convincing decisions then these ''umpire's call'' decisions should be ruled in favour of the batsmen regardless of whatever decision an on-field umpire might have made otherwise that just makes the whole technology a bit shady.
 
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Daemon

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pup11 said:
DRS has been a huge part of this game do far and has been very useful as well but without sounding too negative the ball tracking system is really starting to make very little sense, the game is designed in such a way that it is meant to provide the benefit of the doubt to the batter and if hawk-eye is being used to provide convincing decisions then these ''umpire's call'' decisions should be ruled in favour of the batsmen regardless of whatever decision an on-field umpire might have made otherwise that just makes the whole technology a bit shady.
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Disagree. If hawk eye can't provide conclusive proof in that particular case, then the decision should not be overturned.
 
Jarquis

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benchmark00 said:
Nah not that bad. That was a walk/fall across.

He's always been guilty of trying working a ball from off to leg early in the innings, not completely walking/falling over like that though.
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Need to see footage of this. Sounds exactly like me for most of last season :(
 
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pup11 said:
DRS has been a huge part of this game so far and has been very useful as well but without sounding too negative the ball tracking system is really starting to make very little sense, the game is designed in such a way that it is meant to provide the benefit of the doubt to the batter and if hawk-eye is being used to provide convincing decisions then these ''umpire's call'' decisions should be ruled in favour of the batsmen regardless of whatever decision an on-field umpire might have made otherwise that just makes the whole technology a bit shady.
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Its a good point about the principle of 'benefit of the doubt'. When the third umpire rules on the points 1. Pitch of ball, 2. point of contact and 3. hitting the stumps and finds that on one of the three there is a 'doubt' (orange colour instead of red or green) the legend reads "on pitch umpire call". I think the decision is not being made by the third umpire here. He leaves it to the on field umpire to think about it and decide once again. The fact that when the original decision was not out, and the on field umpire continues with not out, he IS, in fact up holding the 'benefit of doubt' principle.

Its when the original decision was out that the umpire does not give any benefit to the batsman and the reason for that is simple. The umpire DID NOT and DOES NOT have any doubt about the batsman being out. Where is the question of the benefit of doubt when there IS no doubt in the umpires mind.

The on field umpire exercises the benefit of doubt when he makes the decision in the first place and gives the batsman not out. The UDRS system is then brought in to see if the benefit of doubt is bonafide or is a 'doubtful benefit' :-)
 
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