If only there was a way that the fielding side could question an umpires decision and get the call overturned ?
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Roy’s spot at the top should not be in doubt
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TheJediBrah
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God I hate hearing this excuse ever since DRS came in.
"hurr if they didn't review it then it's their own fault that the umpire made the wrong decision"
so dire
Lillian Thomson
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Roy took a whack in the nets yesterday and is being assessed for concussion. A net bowler and he was wearing a neck guard so probably not too serious.
wpdavid
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I read somewhere that Sibley's our concussion sub. Shame he can't buy a score at present.
Burgey
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Plenty dire about it. Woeful take.
Starfighter
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He's not standing in line with the stumps, and when you're bowling you're moving. If you've played and umpired even a tiny bit of cricket you will know this makes a pretty damn big difference.
It is moronic. Subsequent bad decision making neither justifies prior bad decision making nor does it make it less wrong. All you're doing is shifting the blame onto the victim for making an error in trying to rectify something from a much less favourable position than the person who made the original mistake.
TheJediBrah
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I respect you doubling down on your conviction and not taking a backward step. That's a very alpha trait, despite the fact that your initial conviction is utter idiocy
He's a spinner mate the position they normally end up in in their follow through is pretty still with their chest facing the stumps. If you think they don't have a good view of an lbw they are appealing for then God help you
marc71178
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Done OK in the Blast considering it's not his number one format and before that he was hardly in bad touch - Dominic Sibley - Check Sibley's News, Career, Age, Rankings, Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com
I see Pope has now appeared on the scene as the back up in case of concussion...
wpdavid
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Yeah, I overstated that a bit. Two poor county matches isn't the end of the world really. Perhaps he's unlucky that there's been so little FC cricket lately.
Starfighter
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Further proving you are ignorant. The ball heading down eighteen or so metres at 80 km/h still takes a bit under a second to get down there. Hard to judge a reasonably complex trajectory in that time even with a spinner's follow through. Secondly, he was bowling from around the wicket which is a wide angle well out of line with the stumps, there's a reason umpires stand in line with the stumps and aren't doing extraneous physical activity when watching the ball. I'm guessing you think it's easy and you would never get it wrong.
Hang on, didn't this all start after someone was saying how awful the umpire was and all the blame is on them? All I've said that if the umpire gets it wrong that horribly wrong then Lyon is in a good enough position to ask for a review. I never said nothing is easy ffs
Victor Ian
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The problem with this reviewing ability is that it really is a lucky dip thing with erratic umpiring. The cost of wasting an appeal can be huge and players who are all in the process of playing should not be having to play dice. We want good cricketers playing cricket rather than good umpires.
The umps should be able to call the review, rather than having to make a decision when they may have doubt and then being called incompetent as a result. Reviews should be called for any decision that is not easy, by the umps themselves, while cricketers should play cricket.
Blaming umpires for dubious decisions, or players, for that matter, is just missing the point that the Drs implementation is currently not using good technology without polluting it with a roll of the die first.
The umps should be able to call the review, rather than having to make a decision when they may have doubt and then being called incompetent as a result. Reviews should be called for any decision that is not easy, by the umps themselves, while cricketers should play cricket.
Blaming umpires for dubious decisions, or players, for that matter, is just missing the point that the Drs implementation is currently not using good technology without polluting it with a roll of the die first.
TheJediBrah
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It should be pretty obvious that no one on the field is in as good a position as the umpire for judging dismissals. That's why the umpire stands where he does. Even the keeper is moving around and has to be focusing on the ball's trajectory, and can't see directly in front of the batsman.