Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
And the silly thing is, for the overwhelming majority of lbws you can see quite clearly whether they're out or not just based on slo-mo replays. Only in a small number is there any real doubt.As I've stated before, my problem with it is how the frame at which the ball is paused andd the prediction is based upon is arbitrary, chosen depending on the man in the van (which is how it operates, btw - one bloke inside a van), and affects the result too much.
As for the ascertation that Snicko is worse than HawkEye, well, how laughable. Snicko is one of the most reliable pieces of technology because it reveals facts, as does HotSpot. HawkEye does, to some extent, reveal facts, but the predictive element is obviously a different matter.
Whether it's still more reliable than a human eye, well, that's an interesting question.