Being conscientious types, we at CWB feed don’t spend our rain breaks sat on the sofa doing nothing. Oh no. We use the time to get to the heart of the day’s issues. Which is why we worked our collective nuts off to secure an interview with Daryl Harper:
CWB: So, Daryl, tell us about that Smith decision
Harper: Hello?
CWB: How does it feel to have committed one of the biggest cock-ups in umpiring history?
Harper: Is there anyone there?
CWB: Can you hear us?
Harper: Oi, lackey, I thought you said those cunts from Cricket With Balls were on the line?
CWB: We are! Can you hear us.
Harper: Well, I’m not sitting here with this stupid headset on all day, I’ve got cake to eat.
CWB: Daryl, you thick git, turn the volume up!
Harper: Nope, still can’t hear anyone.
CWB: Turn. The. Volume. Up.
Harper: No-one there. Right…
CWB: TURN THE VOLUME UP!
Harper:…I’m off to see how many sandwiches you can stuff into Steve Davis before he explodes.
CWB: Oh, for fucks sake…
Just saw the video ‘with sound on’ ;) Hard to take a stand on this one. All these days I have heard the commentators mention that third umpire only gets to see the video but cannot listen to the match commentary. Not sure whether the stump audio is fed to the third umpire or not. What does the holy book of cricket say about this? Can third umpire control the volume level on his tv? Anyone aware of any ongoing research going on accurate detection of nicks and near misses? Current technology is seemingly not good enough (isn’t it based on guesstimation?). Back to the topic, who are we talking about.. it’s Harper! Screw him!
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I currently have my tv set at 9/50. I guess I better not comment on any nicks (although I must say I did hear the noise in the Roach dismissal at hte same setting). Why in the world does anyone think the number actually tells us anything, if we haven’t used that tv in that setup before?
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You know the English used to stand for something. It was something you could admire even as you took the piss. It’s that stiff upper lip in defeat and adherence to the ideals contained in the saying “it’s just not cricket”.
Now they can be more appropriately compared to a soccer player taking a dive. Yeah we all saw and heard the booing of Ponting in the last Ashes. Funny as that was, it was just confirmation of the shift in values.
Here’s a fucking reminder of what’s right – THE UMPIRES DECISION IS FINAL!
Any fuck ups in the system should be addressed by the appropriate people after the game.
Is anyone trying to undermine the fact that the umpire makes the decision and it stands, right or wrong? Other than the ICC with their review system and the usual bullshit from the likes of Mahanama when any question is asked? If there were no review system we’d not have heard another peep about this ‘dismissal’, it would have been one of those numerous what-ifs that go on in cricket.
However, when you introduce a third umpire, with technology at his aid, take responsibility away from the field umps and add another dynamic such as the limit on referrals, you’re likely to cause the kind of issue we’ve seen here. In fact in every match in which the review has been used we’ve had similar nonsense, this is just the first in which a team has enquired whether a technical fault might lead them to retain a failed appeal.
Excacerbating this is the fact that we’ve got the worst umpire of the past ten years involved, and the pretty hopeless situation where different technology is present in each series depending on the wallet of the broadcaster. You could then go on two write several more paragraphs on the worth of 2D pics in anything other than line-calls, the variation in the number of cameras at grounds, the placement of such, etc.
That it is England that have been the first to make a high-profile complaint about this is here nor there. Someone would have done it eventually. Maybe it’s more likely to have been the ECB as they were the only board to have opposed the system. If one were feeling mischevious one might point to the fact that England are still out there playing (after a fashion) and not sulking in their rooms. England will accept the result of the game, but they will rightly point to the shambles of the review system during it and insist that it be improved if it is to continue.
Yarrrr Matey! It’s not cricket to question the umpire’s decision, but it is to question the third umpire’s. We want to improve the system, but hey, what if we get to retain our failed appeal in the bargain? Why don’t you understand your older brother?
“Broad hangs around for a while and drags himself off.” – Bugger off son.
@timothy – what a cock. took an hour to get in and then another couple to get out. prick should have been timed out.
@ Chris W – “That it is England that have been the first to make a high-profile complaint about this is here nor there.”
I disagree. It falls squarely in the whingeing area. I guess in the “stiff upper lip” vs “whingers” internal conflict of brave new England, the latter are obviously whinning.
Send the Queen over, you don’t deserve her (you can keep Phil and Charles though).
“whinning”- nice one
The English always stood for slimey two-faced fucks, and they still do.
Jardine’s wonderful reply to Uncle Tom Pataudi (I’ve internalised your teachings massa) Sr. when he refused to field at short leg during the Bodyline Crisis:
“I see His Highness is a conscientious objector”
and promptly threw him out of the team.
How revealing that the only fucker who protested the true English way was a brown arse-lick!
(Whitey did it to whitey dood – you bet its a fuckin crisis!)
LL, I’m absolutely sure Queenie (as Lillee called her, in intimate moments) is kept in a cryogenically sealed chamber and thawed before each public appearance – i mean, that broad’s OLD!