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    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    There's only the big one, the other two's just piggybacking on multiple tours from/to India. The cricketing market worldwide probably wouldn't be even 20% of what it is without the big "one" - just talking about economics of course.
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    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    That's lame, probably should've started with Yorkshire if he wanted more clicks!
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    How would 80s WI and 2000s Australia fare in unbeatable current India?

    Yes but that alone doesn't explain the drop in avg - the effect of DRS coupled with T20 & on top of that better (Indian) bowlers does IMO. You could say T20+DRS could account for ~5 better avg, but really there's no way to quantify it because so many things keep on changing over time even within...
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    How would 80s WI and 2000s Australia fare in unbeatable current India?

    The biggest difference is the pacers and DRS. Primary team Australia or England or India or New Zealand or South Africa Opposition team Australia or England or India or New Zealand or South Africa Host country India Start of match date between 1 Jan 2003 and 1 Jan...
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    Hawkeye founder on 'umpires call' debate

    Yes the observer effect but that's true for literally anything out there.
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    Hawkeye founder on 'umpires call' debate

    The outer shell, limited to the leather part, compresses more than the tennis ball. But obviously there's a harder inner core so overall it won't compress or "flatten" as much. So what's your point exactly? Because I did clarify that I have no issues with DRS, just with some lame voices who...
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    Hawkeye founder on 'umpires call' debate

    If your answer to the problem where "the ball is pitched" or bounces is that we'll use the entire diameter of the ball & project/track where it's landing then that's the wrong answer. You still haven't answered how they're calculating that or how many cameras are used for tracking & placed where...
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    Hawkeye founder on 'umpires call' debate

    And I told you the contact area changes, you can't accurately measure it without sensors & even then the error could well be more than 1mm - which is what some here pointed as the difference between line calls. If you think I don't understand the tech then you're wrong. My issue is with terming...
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    Hawkeye founder on 'umpires call' debate

    Maybe I don't, because I haven't actually seen/read on any sources of their data collection, but you do understand that without actual sensors on the ground you're guesstimating where the ball has bounced, don't you? Secondly with tennis at least at the initial impact the surface area of contact...
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    How would 80s WI and 2000s Australia fare in unbeatable current India?

    Funny how the pitches don't change as much when we tour there or SA for that matter :unsure: Primary team Afghanistan or Australia or Bangladesh or England or India or New Zealand or Pakistan or South Africa or Sri Lanka or West Indies...
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    Hawkeye founder on 'umpires call' debate

    Well it also depends on ball tracking, besides how are they calculating the impact on ground? Are there actual sensors on/near the lines or what? If not there's still a massive element of prediction going on - fells like half the forum doesn't even understand how this tech works :no2: Sane goes...
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    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    The template is what's it's always been - score loads of runs in the first innings & hope India collapse in their first, this is how Oz won in 2004 & Eng in 2012 although they did win batting second in Mumbai on a tacky pitch. I'll add this caveat that there was no DRS so things have changed...
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    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    And where does it say that you can't have more than one match in a "final" huh? It's like you've never heard of MLB, NBA, heck in cricket the tri series finals, before the tournament was scrapped in Australia. The fact is it's just a money grab by the ICC & they simply want to ensure that India...
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    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    And Eng is neutral <because reasons> yes we've been over this a million times :dry:
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    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    Between Jadeja/Ashwin/Kuldeep there's not many places in Asia you can't get a team out twice. Then there's Shami & Bumrah, an ATG for any venue in Asia or even WI away!
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    How would 80s WI and 2000s Australia fare in unbeatable current India?

    And that's why it's BS, anyone giving wickets to Kohli in a test should just GTFO of the orbit of this planet & book a one way ticket to Mars :laugh:
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    How would 80s WI and 2000s Australia fare in unbeatable current India?

    Depends on what you call a raging turner - a lot of that narrative is simply inbuilt in S.E.N.A. teams &/or their supporters that any time you win in India it has to be against (colossal) odds! Which is frankly BS - winning toss in Asia is generally very helpful in that you bat first 9/10 times...
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    How would 80s WI and 2000s Australia fare in unbeatable current India?

    Better pitches for spin?
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    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    Pretty hard to play on Mars if you don't have oxygen to breathe in, don't you think? Also weaker gravity means you'll have bouncers going through the rough & maybe 170kph fast bowlers if they could build a dome & play in there? Not 100% about the (top)speed part, wrt gravity, but they'd...
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    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    The pitches are generally slower & it doesn't swing much with the new ball. Again a lot to do with heat. Right & why we can't we have two tests between finalists in their home/away venue, like UEFA semis?

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