***Official*** Australia in New Zealand 2016

[Spark]

Well that is inept.

 

[kiwiviktor81]

That might be the single weirdest thing I've ever seen in a cricket match. That's simply bizarre. If that happened to you at club level you'd walk off the pitch.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

bradman is never out

 

[straw man]

Voges upgraded from Bradman to WG Grace - just gets to put the bails back on and carry on like he's not out.

 

[Nate]

Us spectators are the real winners.

 

[Dan]

Look, if the umpire gets a call wrong, so be it. But when you're reviewing every bloody wicket for the no ball and then **** one call up and don't review it, that's absolutely ****ing pathetic.

 

[vandem]

Coney on the radio "that's just a shocker".

Illingworth is a good ump. WTF was he thinking?

 

[straw man]

Anyway that was truly ****ing ****. I keep expecting somehow that such an absurd, glaring error will be righted and everyone will come to their senses, but it can't and wont' be.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

"yeah look mate I think he overstepped here, can you have a look upstairs?"

nope too hard

 

[hendrix]

You can't review that because an umpire is meant to put his arm out as soon as he sees the no ball, thereby allowing the batsman to change his shot.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

****ing hell. Make that consecutive tests against Australia that will be forever tainted by abysmal umpiring.

 

[Gnske]

Just desserts for bullying Marsh during the last ODI.

 

[Burgey]

****ing hell. Make that consecutive tests against Australia that will be forever tainted by abysmal batting.

Quite

 

[kiwiviktor81]

Craig McMillan's quip that you have to take 24 wickets to beat Australia illustrated in the cruelest possible manner.

 

[indiaholic]

This business of calling no-balls in cricket is at an all time low. Get it out of the hands of human beings. Welcome our robot overlords.

 

[Spark]

"yeah look mate I think he overstepped here, can you have a look upstairs?"

nope too hard

wasn't it called before the ball hit the stumps?

 

[Flem274*]

like every third world country, the west island has a long and torrid history of getting what they want out of impartial officials tbf

brendon mccullum will probably be nice about it

 

[_Ed_]

Feel sorry for Bracewell. Fairly unimpressive figures of 11-1-45-0, but with the dropped catch and then that.

 

[vandem]

****ing hell. Make that consecutive tests against Australia that will be forever tainted by abysmal umpiring.

Disagree. This was a bad call, but in real-time, and may not yet have a significant impact on the game. Adelaide was a howler because the 3rd ump had the time and info to make the correct decision (until the wrong replay was shown ...) and was a match-turning incident.

 

[kiwiviktor81]

This business of calling no-balls in cricket is at an all time low. Get it out of the hands of human beings. Welcome our robot overlords.

Totally agree. We can't have Test matches decided on ****ty decisions like that. Do it like tennis, with a laser beam. If the bowler oversteps the umpire's tie can spin or something.