stephen
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Have you got tired of misquoting and misunderstanding what I'm saying. I was responding to the people who have only seen the zoomed in slow motion replay and stating that Haddin was cheating or lying.Have you got tired of trying to steer the conversation onto other umpiring misdemeaners (sic)?
So by noone commenting, does that mean we're only allowed to discuss it on this forum once we've got an unedited copy of the full match directly from Channel 9?
People have been making slanderous comments and looking at "body language" evidence (which really means they read whatever they want into the players reactions). Is it not equally possible that Haddin was so concentrating on the stumping that it took him a moment to react to the bowled? Is it not also equally possible that the batsman thought that it was an attempted stumping instead of bowled?
This whole incident has me completely amused. We are talking about something that happened over half a dozen frames of television - that is about a quarter of a second of real time.
All I can say is that I would hate for this forum to be the jurors if I was ever up for a serious crime. Reading meaning into Haddin's slightly delayed reaction (which was about half a second). The batsman had no idea what happened as he didn't see the incident, and when he looked around all he could see was the bails off and the ball in Haddin's gloves. And most people here are using these two points as though they were hard evidence of a conspiracy.
Haddin made an error of judgment, the umpires made a small error of judgment and now people are baying for blood over something that did not effect the final result.