The worst decision ever?
Well that really was a shocker from Billy Doctrove. Ryan Harris called for the review immediately because he'd inside edged onto his pad. It was exactly the type of decision where the technology should help make the correct decision. It was very difficult to tell live that he had hit it (so no criticism of the umpire in the middle), but on replay a small dot showed up on the inside edge on Hotspot, and the TV replay from extra cover seemed to show a deviation. The dot on Hotspot was only small because Harris' bat was coming across the ball and it hit the back edge of the bat, but there was no doubt it was there.
Doctrove thought otherwise and I'm sorry, but I'm struggling to think of a worse decision ever. There's plenty of poor ones in the list of wrong decisions from a couple of years ago, but this one takes the biscuit. Oh dear...
3 comments:
Yes, a dreadful decision, especially as when they eventually showed snicko (admittedly after a couple of minutes) there was an obvious kick in the trace at the right moment. I'm afraid any amount of technology can't overcome a blind third umpire.
Without wanting to stick up for Doctrove too much - he does seem to be involved in a lot of bad decisions - I was watching this live and never saw the hot spot dot either.
I can only assume that the Aussie sun was reflecting off the TV Pete - if you saw the same pics that were shown on Sky it was very clear!
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