Agent Nationaux
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Nice to see Amla doing well. Hope he goes on to score a double.
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**Official** South Africa in England 2012
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Jager
International Debutant
1. The aim of DRS is to eliminate the howlers, not for teams to be gambling on reviews
2. Interests of tradition (umpire's call etc)
3. To allow for slight errors in the tracking system
flibbertyjibber
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It does, should be his last ever test but he will get the series and India tour to carry on messing up.
Stumpcam
U19 Captain
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AndyZaltzHair
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Furball
Evil Scotsman
Which, frankly is bull****, as the one thing HawkEye has shown is that the stumps are wider than umpires used to think.
Burgey
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Wait til you've been here a few years. It gets worse.
For a moment I thought you'd successfully capitalised an entire post there. That would have been impressive.
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Burgey
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Think a lot of the angst with it might be removed if you didn't lose a review for an out or not out which is an umpire's call, be it pitching in line or clipping the stumps.
Viscount Tom
International Debutant
Aggers decides to criticise Bopara in his column stating.
Calls him dozy, stating that he left his bat hanging out on Thursday wasn't aware that Bopara was batting yesterday TBH.
Burgey
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Perhaps Aggers was dozy.
AndyZaltzHair
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Too much beers
Woodster
International Captain
While yesterday was a supremely disciplined effort with the bat from England, we unfortunately saw the other side today with some poor dismissals. Cook was a little lazy on the drive, Bell's was a poor mis-judgement and Bopara seemed to be caught in about 12 minds. Prior really showed his importance to this side coming in at seven and I thought with the likes of Bresnan, Broad and Swann we could still make around 450, but credit to SA for fighting back so typically.
Smith is technically awful to watch but he finds away to stick around and accumulate, while Amla played some class shots off through the on side. Definitely SA's day, but Swann's impact on this Test may be key. As we always seem to say, first session could be crucial tomorrow.
Smith is technically awful to watch but he finds away to stick around and accumulate, while Amla played some class shots off through the on side. Definitely SA's day, but Swann's impact on this Test may be key. As we always seem to say, first session could be crucial tomorrow.
Burgey
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Can never have too match beer mate!!!!
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Nah, HawkEye is waaaay too conservative when it comes to 'umpire's call.'
BeeGee
International Captain
The margin of error of the system equates to half the width of the ball, so to guarantee that the ball would hit the stumps, more than half the ball needs to be shown to be hitting. If less than half the ball is shown to be hitting then, in reality, the ball could be missing the stumps.
NasserFan207
International Vice-Captain
The half-ball thing doesn't bother me, since there is supposed to be a margin of error part of the hawkeye technology, and this eliminates that. Plus its the same for both sides.
I do agree you shouldn't lose the review.
I do agree you shouldn't lose the review.
Jacknife
International Captain
Really hoping we can get a full days play in tomorrow with no rain interruptions. The pitch all day for SA and then when England bowled up to that rain break was really good, much better balance between bat and ball and we saw some intense, exciting top notch cricket off the back of it but after the rain break, the ball stopped swinging and the pitch slowed down to a crawl.