I am talking about the tests they did back in 2005. If the TV companies show us hawk eye tracking of every ball that hit the sticks or went past them, we will be in a better position to judge. But there have been times when I have felt that hawkeye does not take in the individual factors like bounce off the track etc on that particular session into account..
Yeah, I agree. My point is on the flak umpires take for making mistakes. Had there been no DRS because South Africa were being arsey about it, then I reckon there'd have been some anger at the umpire for getting it wrong, in the same way a few people got pissed off at Billy Bowden when he made a series of inexplicable calls at Lord's.
Translation: I have no examples, I am just making **** up.
We will only know about this if they applied hawkeye predictive path tracking after it reaches the batsman for every ball that hit or went past the stumps on a day. I just think there are too many variables for any software to accurately predict where the ball would have gone after impact on the batsman in cricket. Just too many. I am happy to use it for tracking what did happen though, like where it pitched, point of impact etc.
Translation, you were ****ting when they showed the Warne ball in 2005 that bowled Strauss and hawkeye got it wrong by a foot or so.
That's how they tested it in the first place.
And should I add that the standing umpire got that one wrong too.
One error, 6 years ago. Do you not think that they'll have bothered making any improvements to the technology since then? Particularly as the problem there was that Warne was spinning the ball further than HawkEye was calibrated for (an error that cropped up again at the Oval), an error that was easily solved.
While what HawkEye projected in that case was wrong, I don't think HawkEye's conclusion (that the ball would have hit the stumps) was wrong.And should I add that the standing umpire got that one wrong too.
We're yet to have an incident of HawkEye incorrectly over-turning a decision. Its net less to umpiring has been 0 so far, and its net gain has been significant.
Let's wait and see on this data. I googled a bit but can't find anywhere what the percentages were on the testing done with hawkeye. Very little details and just a few press releases from the people in charge giving out some percentages. If it is that good, let's use it but I am just not sure.
World Cup 2011 SF ? tendulkar ajmal LBW appeal ?
No.
No. The problem there wasn't with the predicted path, it was that no-one seemed to notice that the ball had deflected off Sehwag's front pad.
because it shows what happened, it is not predicting anything.
It doesn't always show what happened adequately enough.
We should do the same with chucking as well and ban Ashwin from bowling, IMO. I also think Tendulkar's bat might be fractionally too wide but I don't trust the tape measure so we should slap on a ban for him too.
I have next to no idea on what anyone above me has posted and don't have a semblance of a point but I will make lame cracks coz that makes me, you know, cool.
