*Official* Australia vs South Africa -2022/3

[Nintendo]

This makes up for the catch root claimed off marnus back in the 2019 ashes when he first replaced smith.

 

[Gnske]

Yeah bit rough that. Usually the fielder gets a lot of the benefit of the doubt these days with those ones.

 

[Gob]

Some luck for Marnus at last

 

[Spark]

Penny for Ricky Ponting's thoughts on that

 

[Gnske]

Some luck for Marnus at last

Just another dropped catch on his record

 

[Starfighter]

Fwiw I tend to think these are out

You're usually wrong too

 

[Shady Slim]

i reckon that it bounced, but if they gave that one carey took in the last game which i also thought bounced i think that’s one and the same

front on it looks like he got there first, side on it looks like it bounced and in those situations i don’t think you should be deviating from the on field call

 

[Nintendo]

Don't get why soft signal is still a thing with catches like those. Third umpire struggles to call it with tons of different angles and frame by frame footage to run over again and again. How can you expect an umpire on the field to make a call on that, it may as well be a blind 50/50, and it has a huge impact on the decision making process.

 

[Gnske]

By the end of this test Elgar better go up to the stump mic and do a Kohli

 

[Spark]

Don't get why soft signal is still a thing with catches like those. Third umpire struggles to call it with tons of different angles and frame by frame footage to run over again and again. How can you expect an umpire on the field to make a call on that, it may as well be a blind 50/50, and it has a huge impact on the decision making process.

I mean in this case the soft signal seemed to have been basically ignored

 

[Starfighter]

Don't get why soft signal is still a thing with catches like those. Third umpire struggles to call it with tons of different angles and frame by frame footage to run over again and again. How can you expect an umpire on the field to make a call on that, it may as well be a blind 50/50, and it has a huge impact on the decision making process.

It's not in the IPL any more, amazingly the ICC haven't caught up.

 

[Shady Slim]

i reckon that it bounced, but if they gave that one carey took in the last game which i also thought bounced i think that’s one and the same

front on it looks like he got there first, side on it looks like it bounced and in those situations i don’t think you should be deviating from the on field call

i think the more interesting question here is in park games where you’ve got less manicured outfields, plausibly you can have your fingers under it before it hits the turf but not before it hits grass

 

[morgieb]

Live I thought it had bounced. Now I have no idea.

I think that those should be not out, but equally it looked a genuine 50/50 and some angles suggested two different things. And those often get given out these days.

 

[Spark]

i think the more interesting question here is in park games where you’ve got less manicured outfields, plausibly you can have your fingers under it before it hits the turf but not before it hits grass

In park games you don't have three million replays to scrutinise though, that's where the confusion enters the picture

 

[Spark]

But yeah the soft signal became a thing because third umpires were consistently morons and ruled obviously fair catches not out when the fingers were plainly under the ball the whole time because they didn't understand foreshortening. That seems to be much rarer now so it's mostly outlived its purpose.

 

[Line and Length]

Some luck for Marnus at last

"at last"? Marnus has had more than his share of luck throughout his career.

 

[morgieb]

Don't get why soft signal is still a thing with catches like those. Third umpire struggles to call it with tons of different angles and frame by frame footage to run over again and again. How can you expect an umpire on the field to make a call on that, it may as well be a blind 50/50, and it has a huge impact on the decision making process.

Apparently the soft signal is now only used if there isn’t a clear cut vision of the catch. When there is they don’t refer to the soft signal.

 

[halba]

Really poor selection by Aussies. Two spinners on a flat deck. Only two seamers. Haze and Cummins will toil.

 

[Spark]

Oh come off it

 

[Gnske]

Always looks different on the screen.

Not THAT dark at least over at Bevvo Hills rn