Lillian Thomson
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I always defend umpires when it’s leg side-ish, but that was a poor one.
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5th Test at The Oval, London
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morgieb
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As bad as Root has been, he's at least done a lot better with reviews. Then again Australia have seemed to cop a disproportionate amount of bad calls......
Spark
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England have copped plenty of bad calls too tbh. They've just happened to successfully review basically all of them
morgieb
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Yeah you're probably right. Though it does help that they successfully review decisions that shouldn't have been overturned #bitter
EDIT: I also feel like a lot of England's reviews were for genuine howlers, whereas Australia have copped a lot of 70/30 style decisions that you can understand being a tad apprehensive to send upstairs but probably should be given out. Then again Paine has used a lot of reviews on speculative stuff just because a wicket hasn't fallen in 20 overs.....
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Spark
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Eh, no, I can't really understand being apprehensive about not reviewing that one tbh. That's just a plain old mistake.
zaremba
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We have, just as in the WC final. Poor decision by Erasmus. Perhaps he didn't like being screamed at like that by Marsh.
Anyway at the risk of belabouring the point, Paine has done Australia no favours. The ultimate 50/50 is the toss, and he's won 4 out of 5 (the other being Leeds where he'd've batted anyway), and he's been ridiculously wasteful with DRS.
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Spark
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It's amazing how consistent his non-review errors have been. Every single one of them has been a straight ball that would have hit leg stump.
zaremba
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Given that you don't lose a review when it's umpire's call, you need to be a bit ballsier with them. That said, the umpiring has been so dreadful that 2 reviews really isn't a fair allocation.
Lillian Thomson
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The tone was set early in the First Test. Warner was caught leg side first ball and there was hardly an appeal. Then he was out LBW and didn’t review it when it was missing.
Spark
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That's what I've been saying all series
zaremba
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Holy ****.i know this is the wrong thread but i need to talk about this for a second
zaremba
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And we failed to appeal when Lasagne hit it down the leg side yesterday.
morgieb
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Didn't see the non-wicket live so I'm not 100% talking about that one in particular, more referring to the series at large.
Not defending Paine's DRS game at all as you can tell by a lot of my other posts throughout the series, though I don't know if anyone would do any better (and it's only a small part of captaincy anyway, at least if we get competent umpires). I guess I'm just a bit dirty in how Wade and Warner were dismissed in this Test.
Lillian Thomson
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If you grab DVD’s of matches from the 80’s and 90’s you’ll see all sorts of rubbish given out, LBW and caught down the leg side especially. The umpiring was far worse than this, there was just no scrutiny of the decisions.