**Official** New Zealand in Australia 2015

[Johnners]

Lyon is such a champ (when not dropping Mitch catches)

Quality innings from Williamson though, some player.

 

[Gob]

hit the back leg. fair enough

 

[Spark]

Don't actually have a problem with the ump giving that, but ooh that was tight.

Looks bad whenever you collapse on the pull and get hit on the back leg. Definitely one where how the shot looks affects whether it's given out or not.

 

[Flem274*]

baz in just before tea

great

 

[Chewie]

That dismissal was bs

 

[Spikey]

that was nev's wicket tbh. his appeal got it over the line obv

 

[Johnners]

Ian Smith having a cry about Latham's decision because it was "a coat of varnish on the leg stump" **** off.

 

[vandem]

This is like the England tour all over again, almost all of the "umpire's call" lbws are going against the Kiwis ...

(not that it's going to change the result, unless there's a thunderstorm tomorrow)

 

[thierry henry]

I'm not usually the type to question DRS and I'm not going to start today, but if you look at the side-on replay it's really hard to visualise the flight of the ball there and not see it going over

 

[mr_mister]

wow this NZ commentator sounds like a baby

 

[Gob]

Starceh back on please

 

[Flem274*]

would have dislodged the bails, it's out guys.

it just sucks because this test is taunting us

 

[Spikey]

I'm not usually the type to question DRS and I'm not going to start today, but if you look at the side-on replay it's really hard to visualise the flight of the ball there and not see it going over

There's a reason why it was ump's call and not marked as hitting though

 

[Tangles]

Good wicket for Lyon but that was bs call.

 

[thierry henry]

Smith has been being a dick about the Latham lbw ever since it happened when the ball was hitting the whole of the leg stump. Wanker.

 

[adub]

Looks bad whenever you collapse on the pull and get hit on the back leg. Definitely one where how the shot looks affects whether it's given out or not.

Exactly. Right if front of middle with a guy collapsing. Umps are gonna give that 9 times outta 10 and so they should.

All the complaints about it being a bs decision would no doubt be perfectly happy with the ones not given but would be smashing leg stump out of the ground that stick with umps decision because 50.1% of the ball is outside the centre line of the stump.

 

[Gob]

Serious bowling here from MMarsh

 

[thierry henry]

There's a reason why it was ump's call and not marked as hitting though

Yes but the predicted path did have the ball hitting. Basically the predicted path just visibly didn't really look like what the ball was doing (to me). Maybe a combination of a bit of an optical illusion plus my own bias.

 

[thierry henry]

Exactly. Right if front of middle with a guy collapsing. Umps are gonna give that 9 times outta 10 and so they should.

No, they should really just be focusing on whether it's hitting the stumps or not.

 

[Spark]

Exactly. Right if front of middle with a guy collapsing. Umps are gonna give that 9 times outta 10 and so they should.

All the complaints about it being a bs decision would no doubt be perfectly happy with the ones not given but would be smashing leg stump out of the ground that stick with umps decision because 50.1% of the ball is outside the centre line of the stump.

Yeah you get a surprising amount of LBWs given on the pull, which you'd think wouldn't happen at all, simply because it looks so awful when you fall to your knees. Makes it look like it hit way lower than it really did, and it's always going to hit well back in the crease.