***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

[Linda]

Brettus! Warney! I love this match...
Why hasnt Kaspa had a go yet? Its not as if Gillespie setting the pitch on fire.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Really quite odd stuff. More replays of Bell's dismissals during the break, and he definately hit it. There's just no doubt at all on the replays, you can see the ball hit the bat and move it and deviate, and yet snicko said there was no noise at all.

Major mark against the use of technology there.

 

[Shane Warne]

Not exactly riveting coverage just now, is it?

When compared to the channel 4 alternative it is.

 

[Pedro Delgado]

Brettus! Warney! I love this match...

Rather exciting intit?

 

[Nate]

He`s coming dear Linda, Kapser is coming...

 

[Top_Cat]

Really quite odd stuff. More replays of Bell's dismissals during the break, and he definately hit it. There's just no doubt at all on the replays, you can see the ball hit the bat and move it and deviate, and yet snicko said there was no noise at all.

Major mark against the use of technology there.

Exactly, yet everyone is saying Snicko is the way to go. He quite clearly hit it yet there was no noise at all.

 

[Nate]

C`mon Binga...

 

[Slow Love™]

Really quite odd stuff. More replays of Bell's dismissals during the break, and he definately hit it. There's just no doubt at all on the replays, you can see the ball hit the bat and move it and deviate, and yet snicko said there was no noise at all.

Major mark against the use of technology there.

It really isn't.

Firstly, it was technology that enabled you to assert that Bell was out. Beyond that, snicko's generally a great aid for these kind of decisions, and this is the first time I've seen such a strange result. The technology doesn't have to be infallible to be a more than useful aid for decision-making. If anything, today has probably been a better argument for technology than against it.

 

[Linda]

Rather exciting intit?

Yes, raaather. Cant believe all my friends think Im a tragic for staying at home on a Saturday to watch this...

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Four. Thanks, Geraint.

*waits for the inevitable*

 

[_Ed_]

Oh dear.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Brett might get five here.

 

[Nate]

What bounce!
Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahhhaah...

Come in Giles my friend.

 

[Slow Love™]

Lee's got Jones - it reared up a little nastily off the pitch...

 

[Top_Cat]

Ooooo, boy. That was a nasty ball which hit the seam there. Jones very unlucky there and couldn't do much about it. Four for Lee now.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Just what England needed, the first real unplayable delivery of the innings.

 

[Top_Cat]

Brett might get five here.

You are the biggest Brett Lee fanboy I've ever seen.

 

[Nate]

Four. Thanks, Geraint.

*waits for the inevitable*

 

[chalky]

The standard after lunch early wicket for Australia nothing Jones could do though cracking ball by lee.

 

[Linda]

For all the crap that Lee bowls, when he gets it right he is so great to watch.