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  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Australia 518-7 at the close, a lead of 134 with the cheat Smith unbeaten on 129.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    More bad news, Stokes is unable to finish an over whilst bowling, and has had to leave the field with what looks like a groin strain.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    The cheat Smith finally goes, Australia 544-8.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    564-9.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    All out 567, a lead of 183.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited January 7
    Crawley goes for 1 as Starc strikes in the first over yet again; a really bad decision to shoulder arms as the ball was just clipping off stump, and, as seems to be the way of things, the umpire gave it on-field. 4-1.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    80-1 at lunch, with Duckett given a life when dropped in the slips in the penultimate over before the break.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Duckett goes for 42 just after lunch, 85-2.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Another really close lbw decision is given on-field, with the ball barely clipping the bails when reviewed, and unfortunately that's the end of Joe Root for just 6, 117-3. Feels like all the marginal decisions are going Australia's way.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    174-3 at tea, just 9 runs behind.
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    buffybegood said:

    Another really close lbw decision is given on-field, with the ball barely clipping the bails when reviewed, and unfortunately that's the end of Joe Root for just 6, 117-3. Feels like all the marginal decisions are going Australia's way.

    Not unlike West Ham's luck with referees's decisions.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    BubblesNeverDies said:

    buffybegood said:

    Another really close lbw decision is given on-field, with the ball barely clipping the bails when reviewed, and unfortunately that's the end of Joe Root for just 6, 117-3. Feels like all the marginal decisions are going Australia's way.

    Not unlike West Ham's luck with referees's decisions.
    Tbh that was exactly my feeling as I was watching.

    I know they say that there's a margin of error with DRS, and so they like the umpires to still be relevant and so the need for umpire's call, but it still means that the umpires can still unduly influence the game; if they had given neither Root not Crawley out, then they would both have survived, but they gave both out and so they were gone.
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    edited January 7
    Quite possibly these marginal decisions were influenced by the fact that the Aussie bowlers were bowling more accurately and therefore more likely to be hitting the stumps.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited January 7
    Bethell goes for 154 (not before a very dodgy umpiring decision to give him out when the ball was well high, fortunately the review saved him) to leave England on 328-9, a lead of just 145. Just Potts and Tongue left, and the second new ball only a few overs old.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited January 8
    342 all out, Australia need 160, England need a miracle.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited January 8
    More dreadful umpiring, this time by the 3rd umpire, there's clearly a noise on Snicko, yet the Aussie isn't given out. Absolute joke. He took ages looking at it too, then still decided not to give him out. Snicko is clearly not fit for purpose, but the umpires have given absolutely everything Australia's way all series.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    62-1, too little, too late.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Weatherald, the beneficiary of the bizarre 3rd umpire decision, goes in the last over before lunch, 71-2.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    The cheat Smith goes for just 12, clean bowled by Jacks, 92-3.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Bethell puts down a very tough chance in the gully off Tongue, but it's not meant to be.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited January 8
    Tongue does strike in his next over, 119-4 but only 41 more needed,
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    121-5 as Labuschagne runs himself out.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Australia win by 5 wickets.
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    buffybegood said:

    More dreadful umpiring, this time by the 3rd umpire, there's clearly a noise on Snicko, yet the Aussie isn't given out. Absolute joke. He took ages looking at it too, then still decided not to give him out. Snicko is clearly not fit for purpose, but the umpires have given absolutely everything Australia's way all series.

    Tbh the Snicko sound trace didn't show a definite spike that you'd expect from a momentary contact between bat and ball.
    But, yeah, the umpires have given everything Australia's way.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Sam Curran goes for 35 in his first two overs in the first T20 against Sri Lanka, then takes a hat-trick in his third and final over to finish with 38-3 as England restrict Sri Lanka to 133 off 17 overs in this rain shortened match.
  • ScotHammerScotHammer
    I admit to not following much cricket, but is the use of the 3rd umpire (VAR?) something that could be used in football?.
    Each team would get, say, 3 reviews each match. Each review would be put through the team captain. This might stop players claiming everything, and goals wouldn’t be ruled out when people were 2 cm offside, a handball minutes before, etc. This could also put the control back in the hands of the match officials (ie. Referee and assistants) and get us back to “clear and obvious”. Goals are being disallowed by VAR when even the opposition are hardly claiming ! Even the commentators are now expecting VAR to step in!
    As I said I don’t know exactly how similar could be used - thoughts? ⚒
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