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***Official*** Australia in South Africa + South Africa in Australia 2016/17

Zinzan

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Athlai said:
Have enjoyed how Williamson Smith and Root have all looked equally mortal recently.
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Tbf, KW went down a few pegs more than the other 2 by being totally and utterly destroyed by Ashwin 4 out of 4 times. If Root has a cracking series vs. Ashwin, that pushes him clearly ahead of KW for mine.

Regarding Smith, he still scored a 100 in that SL series. This is one dismissal.
 
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Burgey said:
Hilarious call from Dar tbh. Haven't seen him give anything like that out in over a decade of umpiring. I do hope to see him doing that consistently, but he won't do it. TBH I frankly reckon he's had a guess. Was a good guess though.

Ultimate lesson is to use your bat
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Yeah, I'm all for umpires being more aggressive in their LBW decisions, and tbf to Dar it did look insanely ugly and insanely plumb if Smith wasn't two yards down the deck. It looked pretty good for Maharaj even with Smith's positioning accounted for too -- like, it hit him in front of middle at half-stump height.

I'm all for this.
 
Zinzan

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Dan said:
Bad, awful. Tomato, tomato.

Either way, I think Smith is unluckier here than other 'just clipping' LBW dismissals because he was so far down the track, which historically has put enough doubt in umpire's minds for it not to be given out live (and, because it was only clipping, not overturned on review either).
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That just isn't true in the last 2-3 years. DRS has meant that umpires have been much more willing to give LBW when batters are down the track. I've seen a few of those in the last few years, including a couple in the India NZ series given without DRS when NZ batsmen were well down the wicket.

Your statement is correct if we're talking about pre DRS days.
 
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Black_Warrior said:
easily drowned out by 64,479 posts so I can see why the perception is that he is popular
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I had to double check that Jono actually had that many posts. JFC. I've got 20K from PlanetCricket and almost 10K here and that combined is like 12 years of posting.

WTF Jono.
 
Gob

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Not watching this but how far down was he? And isn't there a law which rules out LBs when a player is that far down assuming that he was down
 
indiaholic

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Not a fan of the umpire's call business though. If it had been given not out and SA reviewed, it should have been out.
 
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***** said:
I had to double check that Jono actually had that many posts. JFC. I've got 20K from PlanetCricket and almost 10K here and that combined is like 12 years of posting.

WTF Jono.
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I have well over 90k on here tbh. It's not that hard.
 
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Black_Warrior

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***** said:
I had to double check that Jono actually had that many posts. JFC. I've got 20K from PlanetCricket and almost 10K here and that combined is like 12 years of posting.

WTF Jono.
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Jono is to CW what England is to Test Cricket

Posts more than everyone else but still posts **** at the end of the day
 
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