It's not a howler. I just donot agree that decisions like those should always be out since there is some doubt. The tracker says it's clipping and the fact that it stays not out is fair enough. You can feel aggrieved all you want but it wasn't stone dead and you just shake your head and move on in such cases. They just shouldn't strike off a review for marginal ones, that's all that's truly unfair.
only 2 changes that need to happen:
Yeah, but at the same NZ are getting well and truly ripped off here, just let him vent.
I just wanted to use that picture again tbh.
Needs to be done.
It's not clipping though, it's dmashing into the top of middle stump.
Seriously someone answer this.
Just move the "lines" demarcating umpire's call to the actual outside border of the stumps rather than the middle of the stumps/bails. That'd eliminate these "hitting leg stump/the bails really, really hard but still umpire's call" decisions which cause the most angst, but keep the "barely shaving the stumps" calls which no one thinks should be overturned, but can't rightly be given not out either.
Technically it is clipping, once you take the margin of error into account. The margin they consider needs to be relaxed a bit for sure, since it does make the whole thing quite iffy. But it just wasn't a plumb lbw.
Haha, I remember the Indians refusing to use DRS then Hussey got out given out dubiously, and Australia just about broke the Internet. Biggest dummy spit of all time.
technically it's smashing into the top of middle and the margin of error babbled on about so much because tradition.
