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**Official** South Africa in England 2012

flibbertyjibber

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Fair play to SA they have come back really well. Match evenly poised now though as SA have to bat last and we have some decent weather to bake the pitch and help it break up. Still fancy an England win.
 

jan

State Vice-Captain
Really enjoyable day today :)
Hope The Mighty Beard of Durban goes on tomorrow.

EDIT: twitter reminded me that Amla may be fasting due to ramadan?
 
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amanuensis

U19 12th Man
This may sound perverse, but England would probably have been in a better position now if they'd been bowled out cheaply this morning, as that rain cleared away the humidity - they basically didn't go anywhere in that 1st session.
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Sick of the commentators saying "good decision, only just hitting the stumps so not out"

Seriously WTF!
There's a difference between an umpire giving a not out for one that's projected to be just clipping, and HawkEye returning an "umpire's call" on a delivery that's projected to be smashing leg stump out of the ground.
 

Stumpcam

U19 Captain
Really, that 'half the ball' nonsense needs to be changed. Half the ball hitting the stump would break the wicket just as effectively as 10% of it hitting would.

We saw today the slightest tought of a medium paced ball on a bail and it is dislodged. So why does more than 50% of the ball have to be hitting the stumps to reverse an umpire's "not out" decision.?

It's just not logical.
 

social

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Really, that 'half the ball' nonsense needs to be changed. Half the ball hitting the stump would break the wicket just as effectively as 10% of it hitting would.

We saw today the slightest tought of a medium paced ball on a bail and it is dislodged. So why does more than 50% of the ball have to be hitting the stumps to reverse an umpire's "not out" decision.?

It's just not logical.
Exactly

If either Broad or Bell's pads had been slightly feathered and the ball gone over, they would have been given not out

Ridiculous!

Only saw a few hours today but Prior and Bopara were both dead to rights and given not out and I can guarantee that a few SA batsmen will receive the same benefit of the doubt
 

AndyZaltzHair

Hall of Fame Member
Really, that 'half the ball' nonsense needs to be changed. Half the ball hitting the stump would break the wicket just as effectively as 10% of it hitting would.

We saw today the slightest tought of a medium paced ball on a bail and it is dislodged. So why does more than 50% of the ball have to be hitting the stumps to reverse an umpire's "not out" decision.?

It's just not logical.
That's for marginal error correction
 

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