*Official* Big Bash League 10 2020-21

[TheJediBrah]

no he missed the 3rd ump giving it the tick and then moving onto the matter of the bat being in the air or not. the ump literally said "wickets were correctly broken" but because Ponting was moaning, the statement went through to the keeper. very poor commentating

Yeah I get what you said the first time, but you clearly didn't get what I said. What the umpire said wasn't relevant to the confusion. The umpire said "wickets were correctly broken" but the issue was why he would assume that, and say it.

Maybe Ponting did miss that comment, maybe he didn't, but it doesn't affect the issue either way. Everything he said was still on point.

 

[TheJediBrah]

This could be Heazlett's career just about done after this debacle

Meanhwile this seems to be working so far.

 

[Burgey]

Even the Heat can’t Heat this up

 

[morgieb]

This has been junk bowling from the Thunder.

 

[Flem274*]

use the worlds fastest gavin larsens third over tbh

 

[Spikey]

yeah I didn't get it because it's completely unrelated. Once the umpire made his opinion known, the commentary should have been in response to that - "well I disagree with it, but now, it looks like the umpire will be giving this" - and then you can do your analysis of the umpire's statement after the dismissal. instead they completely botched it and then missed the decision being shown.

 

[Spikey]

This has been junk bowling from the Thunder.

haven't looked like taking a wicket for awhile. i'm sure dew will be blamed but I dunno.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Bowling in T20s has been all about the change-up balls for a while now, but I can't help but wonder if some would be better off just going the old-fashioned fast-at-the-blockhole 5 out of 6 balls. Trying to bowl different slower balls every second ball is leading to a lot of **** full tosses and loose **** I've noticed, presumably because the bowlers can't get in a rhythm. Not saying they're doing the wrong thing, just a thought.

yeah I didn't get it because it's completely unrelated. Once the umpire made his opinion known, the commentary should have been in response to that - "well I disagree with it, but now, it looks like the umpire will be giving this" - and then you can do your analysis of the umpire's statement after the dismissal. instead they completely botched it and then missed the decision being shown.

This is just a bizarre take. The commentating was exactly about what it should have been about. That was lazy and ordinary 3rd umpiring, moving on from that as soon as the umpire said "wickets were broken correctly" and not talking about would have been weak and stupid commentating.

 

[Spikey]

You talk about it after the decision has been made, but when the decision is in the process of being made and a major statement is made that indicates where the decision is going you acknowledge that, or don't talk over it. instead Ponting talked over it and was then flabbergasted

this is why when there's DRS in a test, the commentators shut up when the umpire is talking through the situation.

 

[Spikey]

like, you said "I'm not sure he missed that". he 100% missed it! otherwise Ponting would be the biggest idiot in the world for thinking the umpire said "wickets correctly broken", moved onto the next part of the decision, and would end up giving it not out

 

[Spikey]

got a bit obsessed with bowling wide here. It worked for awhile and then didn't adjust

 

[Flem274*]

ponting as a commentator with his pujara boohooing etc sounds like the next ian chappell in waiting tbh. you should all jump off his train now.

 

[TheJediBrah]

You talk about it after the decision has been made, but when the decision is in the process of being made and a major statement is made that indicates where the decision is going you acknowledge that, or don't talk over it. instead Ponting talked over it and was then flabbergasted

this is why when there's DRS in a test, the commentators shut up when the umpire is talking through the situation.

I didn't miss the umpire making the statement and clearly you didn't either so that's not the issue. If you didn't like that aspect of the commentary that's fine and I respect that but personally I was very happy that he had the balls to address what looked like a potentially very problematic bit of umpiring, and I'm glad he addressed it when and how he did.

like, you said "I'm not sure he missed that". he 100% missed it! otherwise Ponting would be the biggest idiot in the world for thinking the umpire said "wickets correctly broken", moved onto the next part of the decision, and would end up giving it not out

No he wouldn't. Again, he wasn't whinging because the umpire didn't think about how the wickets were broken, he was whinging because the umpire just assumed they were broken correctly without checking. You're just assuming he missed the umpire's comment.

 

[TheJediBrah]

ponting as a commentator with his pujara boohooing etc sounds like the next ian chappell in waiting tbh. you should all jump off his train now.

Some truth to this but at least with Ponting the things he rants about are generally spot on. Chappell is wrong about 85% of the time.

 

[Spikey]

No he wouldn't. Again, he wasn't whinging because the umpire didn't think about how the wickets were broken, he was whinging because the umpire just assumed they were broken correctly without checking. You're just assuming he missed it.

Well the evidence in how the umpire got there is right there on the tape. he viewed the footage, after one particular angle he made the decision, so that was clearly the smoking gun for the umpire, this was not acknowledge by any of the commentators, and then they wondered how the umpire made the decision. if they were actually listening to the umpire, they then could have further broke down the decision by focusing on the same angle that clearly tipped the umpire over which would have been good commentary

 

[Spikey]

Pierson is now one of Ponting's favourites, so Tim Paine is screwed

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Ahh you dirty thing

 

[Spikey]

"they must have thought they were miles around at the halfway break" I mean Ricky, Bond literally said it looks like it'll go down to the last over in the interview seconds after the break, are you listening to anything at all man

 

[Flem274*]

Some truth to this but at least with Ponting the things he rants about are generally spot on. Chappell is wrong about 85% of the time.

put a couple of decades in him, allow the game to move on, he'll get there

 

[TheJediBrah]

Well the evidence in how the umpire got there is right there on the tape.

bro . . . again, that wasn't the issue. That the umpire decided the stumps were broken was not in question, the question was why he decided that without checking diligently at all and hence that's what the rant was about.

I get that you don't like the style of the commentary, which personally I find strange but that's your opinion. It wasn't bad commentating and you can't just assume he missed the umpire's statements purely because you didn't like the way he questioned the decision. Seems to me that you've decided you don't like Ponting for whatever reason and you're looking at any little comment you don't like as evidence that he's a bad commentator. Because these are really weird things to take issue with.