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*Official* 2nd Test at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, 13 - 17 Feb 2021
- Thread starter Shri
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karan_fromthestands
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centurymaker
Cricketer Of The Year
These Indian umpires need to be removed and few neutral umpires need to be brought in! Couldn't be more incompetent if not going to give that out!
Every little kid who knows about Lbws knows thats plumb out. But umpire doesn't think so.
Every little kid who knows about Lbws knows thats plumb out. But umpire doesn't think so.
h_hurricane
International Vice-Captain
Loved the reaction of Lawrence as well. Like one of those guards in the ancient times who had to watch king having *** with the queen, but can't react as they have been told not to.
Shri
Mr. Glass
what is your point
theegyptian
International Vice-Captain
I mean it took Kohli and the Indian side the whole 15 seconds to review so it's not like they were convinced it was out. Lots of moving parts to pick up in real time.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Are you still having dinner?
Senile Sentry
International Debutant
That's because Ashwin insisted they must review which made the rest doubt whether it was worth reviewing it.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
The issue is that the ball tracker has it wrong as the ball hit him well in line of the stumps as you can literally see off-stump when the ball hits his pads. I have no idea what they were arguing about the review but I thought, on first look, it was either caught or LBW and it HAD to be one of the two.
social
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
You have been here for years and still haven’t learned a thingAre you still having dinner?
What’s up with that?
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Nah, missing middle.
Shri
Mr. Glass
Bijed
International Regular
I'm not saying Root wasn't pretty lucky to get away with that and I know the "close" element of each of those decisions was different, but when an on-field umpire gives a two similarly close (in margin terms) decisions once each way (from a batting/bowling POV, I know both decisions went in England's favour), they're not being "inconsistent" imo. They're simply giving their opinion on impact/hitting etc based on that particular ball, "umpire's call" isn't a thing at that point, it's just yes/no on each factor involved.
Even with exceptionally similar decisions - say for example the Root thing had happened again a ball later but been given, if it was showed to look basically identical on DRS it wouldn't necessarily be fair to describe the umpire as "inconsistent". Impact especially must be pretty tough where fine margins are inovled, as I don't really think a human being can discern the exact fraction of the second contact is first made at, which the techonology can do, so subtle variations in pace/angle of delivery can alter real-time perception enough so that two impacts that the technology shows as identical could legitimately have appeared slightly different on field.
Hmm, now I feel like cnerd, what with all this defending of umpires
Father Time
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Root had the luck of all ages there! But what goes around comes around. The irony of it..!! Bairstow & Crawley have to play next test, which two miss out? Bess comes back. Olly Stone has been really good.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
I have enough chappalls at my house, kthxbi social.
hazsa19
International Regular
The ball tracker isn’t right or wrong, it just shows what happened then shows what it calculates will happen. On this occasion it showed that part of the ball struck in line and part of the ball struck outside the line.
Don't see Bess coming back.
No guarantee of Bairstow coming in, but it seems likely. Let's give Lawrence a chance tomorrow first though !!
OverratedSanity
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Yeah the ball tracker's fine, umpire's call for impact is just stupid as a concept.