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According to the lovely chap in my local newsagent, there are two types of magical trickery. Can't vouch for the legality of them though.


www.crictime.com


www.cricvid.com


Not enjoying this test as much as Trent Bridge, perhaps I thrive on seat of pants cricket after all.

  • 3 weeks later...

Interesting listening to Simon Hughes explaining why hot-spot doesn't always work - and that some batsmen may be coating their edges with substances designed to prevent it registering.


Before this series I was pro the DRS and agreed with criticism of the Indians for not using it - not so sure now; if it aint 100% accurate then what's the point? The DRS has become just like the umpires-only decisions of old - bad decisions and mistakes which even themselves out (one hopes) over the course of a test.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> I've never been in favour of the review system: I

> think despite the inevitable fallibility of the

> umpires, a little bit of the spirit of the game

> has been taken away.

>

> But then I'm just a soppy romantic.


Technology has worked well in tennis. But there seem to be too many moving uncertainties in cricket. Having said that, the hawkeye lbw decision making process shows how many decisions there are within one lbw decision and its surely very difficult for an umpire to get that right regularly - so hawkeye for lbw i would keep. Hotspot on the other hand seems to be under scrutiny with players allegedly applying something to the bat so it doesn't show - its days look numbered.

Talk of a 10-0 whitewash over the 2 series only a couple of weeks ago now looks a total joke. I know the last test was drawn (thanks to rain), but this one looks like going Australia's way unless England's bowlers sort it out very soon. Never count Australia out in an ashes series. Surely these pundits should know that better than me?
  • 2 weeks later...

Bugger Blowers, his bus obsession is getting a bit much this series.


But Boycott on Botham in his prime, on TMS a couple of minutes ago: 'Broad shoulders, narrow waist, big backside'.


He's getting more like Alan Bennett every day.


And there's still tickets for Sunday for ?45.

Not working out particularly well for either Woakes or Kerrigan so far but I think Vaughan is trying too hard to be the bluff Yorkshire successor to Boycs in his assessment.


The next Ashes series is a lot closer than usual so they need to look at possible spin back up (if Monty is still at odds with himself) and replacements for Bresnan (what don't they know about Onions and Tremlett that they would find out now?) and Bairstow surely had enough time to prove himself.

David A Wrote:

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> Bugger Blowers, his bus obsession is getting a bit

> much this series.

>


A perfect encapsulation of Blowers this afternoon when there was a hold up for drinks and changing of the ball - in the space of a couple of minutes he started by (quite rightly) bemoaning and deploring the time wasted in changing the ball and the dithering that held up play, then misread the score as 243 when it was 293 and, on correcting himself, blamed being slightly over excited by seeing a white bus then, after one more delivery, he observed the fly-past of what he described as two of Tuffers' pigeons.

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