Cricket Thread: Ashes done, 4-1

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Green has to try something. Maybe a beard like Thilthorpe's

It's got to the stage that he needs to be dropped for his own good. Even if the selectors still believe in him and still think he'll be a good test player one day, at present he's mentally shot and playing only makes things worse

 

[spenze]

Should umpires call still count as out when it comes to hitting the stumps?

 

[Vader]

Should umpires call still count as out when it comes to hitting the stumps?

Yes, because of the uncertainty regarding the DRS projections. I know it looks like a clean trace on the screen, but that's the art of visualisation. What's not shown is the uncertainty/error range. This is why it's given as "umpires call" if less than half the ball is hitting the stumps - it's simply too close for the technology to be absolutely certain, so they go with the human factor/instinct in those cases.

 

[Vader]

Green has to try something. Maybe a beard like Thilthorpe's

It's got to the stage that he needs to be dropped for his own good. Even if the selectors still believe in him and still think he'll be a good test player one day, at present he's mentally shot and playing only makes things worse

Green currently making Potts look like Glenn McGrath.

 

[spenze]

Yes, because of the uncertainty regarding the DRS projections. I know it looks like a clean trace on the screen, but that's the art of visualisation. What's not shown is the uncertainty/error range. This is why it's given as "umpires call" if less than half the ball is hitting the stumps - it's simply too close for the technology to be absolutely certain, so they go with the human factor/instinct in those cases.

Maybe I haven't phrased the question correctly. I am thinking whether the umpire has given it out or not, it should be out

 

[Vader]

Maybe I haven't phrased the question correctly. I am thinking whether the umpire has given it out or not, it should be out

You still get the howler, where the ball is sailing over the top of the stumps, or swinging back past leg - and the umpire calls it "out" when it's not.

I like the current system. It allows for both human and computer errors, and generally ends up with the right result more often than either human or computers would give alone.

 

[FR0GGY]

Root 39 test centuries none in Australia until this series.
Bethell no first class centuries is about to make a test one in aus.

 

[Cromulant]

Root 39 test centuries none in Australia until this series.
Bethell no first class centuries is about to make a test one in aus.

Bethell does look a talent

 

[FR0GGY]

Bethell does look a talent

Lucky he didn’t play the first couple

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Bit precious by CA over Clark's comments...

Hugh Marks intervenes in mid-Test feud between Cricket Australia and ABC

Marks, the managing director of the national broadcaster, rang CA boss Todd Greenberg to complain after the ABC was denied access to an Australian player for a post-stumps interview on Tuesday.

www.smh.com.au

 

[Cromulant]

Lucky he didn’t play the first couple

They'd have found a way to lose

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Lucky he didn’t play the first couple

May end up topping the English batting averages.

Pope looked like he was going to get out most deliveries, so it's been a good change.

Strange they didn't try their front line spinner through.

 

[FR0GGY]

Webster pulling further away from green for performance

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Webster pulling further away from green for performance

Has Webster had a poor test?

Very reliable.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Just as well we played a spinner...

 

[Cromulant]

That is a horrendous attempt at a cricket shot.

Fair catch by Green

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Bethell the 1st top 6 batsman to score their 1st first class ton in a Test since Dizzy.

 

[Eagleboy2011]

That is a horrendous attempt at a cricket shot.

Fair catch by Green

Brilliant catch for such a big guy.

 

[FR0GGY]

Smith brilliant catch

 

[spenze]

Yeah, as soon as Labs gets a breakthrough, you take him off and let the proper bowlers have a go

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Smith 1 catch off Root's record number of catches.

 

[spenze]

Smith 1 catch off Root's record number of catches.

Quite the swordsman then if he's had more roots than catches

 

[Eagleboy2011]

Quite the swordsman then if he's had more roots than catches

Can he achieve the record with Tongue?

 

[Cromulant]

Can he achieve the record with Tongue?

Its always handy to have that in the back pocket TBH....

 

[Eagleboy2011]

Australia will have to be on top now. The pitch appears not be doing anything to worry about. Can we stuff it up?
Amazing innings from Bethal.