1st Test; Australia v Pakistan @ The Gabba November 21-25

[Richard Pryor]

This kid has been bowling no-balls all day, to the point that is entirely on the umpires head and not his.

Pretty pathetic shot from Warner though.

 

[NSWCROW]

 

[estibador]

Fair delivery according to the 3rd ump.

 

[HBF]

Lol so they call that one.

 

[yakka man]

No ball. They can't botch that one. Warner often gets lucky.

 

[danielnajdek]

Ordinary shot btw

 

[arden station]

and gillys 23 avg? Think you pick the reality you want becasue you dislike warner as a person ..

The reality is that Gilly's 23 is still 2.5 times more than Warner's 9. And Gilly wasn't even batting in the top 6.

What's Warner as a person got to do with it? He averaged 9.5 - way worse than any of the 2005 batters and Gilly. Very few batsmen survive a 5 test series averaging 9.5 letalone the next series.

 

[WeMissYouMarkCoughlan]

This game really sucks some times...

 

[Mitchell54]

Big no ball. Could see it was a no ball live.

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Feel like we should give them that wicket to make up for yesterdays nonsense.

 

[HBF]

That was a long long way over the line

 

[JezzasOnTheAsphalt]

Stupid the way it is officiated. Pull him up for all his no balls, not just wicket balls. Then bowlers can adjust before it gets costly.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

This is the problem we have with umpires not calling no-balls. The bowler thinks he's okay until he takes a wicket and then they discover he's over-stepping. Too late.

 

[JezzasOnTheAsphalt]

This is the problem we have with umpires not calling no-balls. The bowler thinks he's okay until he takes a wicket and then they discover he's over-stepping. Too late.

And we do have the resources/technology to do it the other way.

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Stupid the way it is officiated. Pull him up for all his no balls, not just wicket balls. Then bowlers can adjust before it gets costly.

They’re trialling the third umpire giving all no balls in some ODIs either coming up or happened recently. Think that is the way forward but given the third umpire couldn’t get it right in three minutes yesterday who knows how well that’ll work. Got to be better than what it is currently.

 

[Father Jack]

Do you lose that much pace if you bowl with three quarters of your foot behind the line as opposed to trying to put your foot as far down the pitch as legally possible?

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Hahahahaha no ball did lol

 

[Jimthegreat]

The reality is that Gilly's 23 is still 2.5 times more than Warner's 9. And Gilly wasn't even batting in the top 6.

What's Warner as a person got to do with it? He averaged 9.5 - way worse than any of the 2005 batters and Gilly. Very few batsmen survive a 5 test series averaging 9.5 letalone the next series.

His 23 is also exactly half what Warner averaged the previous tour to England. Just had a stinker.

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

Has 7 paid to have a guest commentator like fox?

 

[Hawks1994]

Surely it wouldn't be too difficult to have the 3rd or 4th Umpire watching a live side-on shot of each delivery. If they see a no-ball, they tell the on field umpire immediately. Means, as others have said, the bowler can adjust and come back further to prevent no-balls on wickets

Front foot no-balls are really frustrating to see from a bowler anyway. That extra 5cm isn't making any difference at the end of the day

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

When I played (admittedly a long time ago), I used to ask a fielder at mid-on or mid-off to just check where my foot was landing.

 

[Kappa]

How much Pakistan be feeling knowing Steve Smith still has to bat on this pitch?

 

[Richard Pryor]

Has 7 paid to have a guest commentator like fox?

They had Ramiz Raja yesterday

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Get the on-field umpire to call them, and let players still appeal. The third umpire can take a look then.
From what they were saying yesterday, the third umpire can't negate an on-field no-ball call. Allow that and the on-field umpires might call a few more.

 

[burge13]

Do you lose that much pace if you bowl with three quarters of your foot behind the line as opposed to trying to put your foot as far down the pitch as legally possible?

Has to be on the dumbest things in sports.