***Official*** DRS discussion thread

[vcs]

I don't know if this makes a difference, but HawkEye in tennis is used to track a known event. In cricket it tracks a known event up until the ball strikes the pad. It then has to extrapolate what it knows has happened and predict what would have happened had the ball not hit the pad. Whether that adds time, I don't know.

The above is a very messy paragraph, but hopefully you guys get what I'm talking about.

I don't think that should be an issue.. AFAIC, it should be a straightforward projectile motion problem that we learn in basic physics, unless I'm missing something obvious. Obviously, the Hawkeye cameras have to collect enough data to do the extrapolation.

 

[Teja.]

Teja, you're missing the point in your eagerness to play to the gallery.

Nah, My point is somewhere between the extremes of 'something vs nothing' and 'UDRS is ****' tbh.

 

[smash84]

The three piece adds nothing in terms of functionality over the shorts and vest. The analogy doesn't stand.

Of course it does unless you think that shorts and vest (chaddi and banyan) offer nothing more to you than does a 3 piece suit.

The suit offers more style, class, elegance, fits in with the dress code of most places, allows you access to hotels and other exclusive places etc etc

Yes, but this ignores the fact that the BCCI is not just any kid, It is a stubborn, bull-headed, mean kid who doesn't care about the father's other kids as the father loves him more and hence is ready to run naked till the father gives in and gets him the three-piece.

 

[Furball]

I don't think that should be an issue.. AFAIC, it should be a straightforward projectile motion problem that we learn in basic physics, unless I'm missing something obvious. Obviously, the Hawkeye cameras have to collect enough data to do the extrapolation.

Like I said, I don't know the ins and outs - I'm merely speculating as to why it might not be possible to have an instantaneous HawkEye the way it appears in Tennis.

 

[vcs]

Of course it does unless you think that shorts and vest (chaddi and banyan) offer nothing more to you than does a 3 piece suit.

The suit offers more style, class, elegance, fits in with the dress code of most places, allows you access to hotels and other exclusive places etc etc

I could forego a 3 piece suit for the rest of my life but I doubt I could do the same for my chaddi-banyan.

 

[vcs]

Like I said, I don't know the ins and outs - I'm merely speculating as to why it might not be possible to have an instantaneous HawkEye the way it appears in Tennis.

I think the Hawkeye graphic comes up pretty instantaneously... it's one of the others (Snicko/Hotspot) that apparently is a problem.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Of course it does unless you think that shorts and vest (chaddi and banyan) offer nothing more to you than does a 3 piece suit.

The suit offers more style, class, elegance, fits in with the dress code of most places, allows you access to hotels and other exclusive places etc etc

All of which are irrelevant to the pressing matter at hand, i.e. ensuring that you're clothed.

A more suitable analogy would be a choice between crotchless underwear and underwear that isn't crotchless. Would you take the crotchless underwear because it atleast covers up your ass crack? That's better than nothing, isn't it?

 

[GIMH]

Having followed a team who have played their last 4 series with UDRS, I can't imagine Test cricket without it.

There were plenty of umpiring errors made in the Ashes. The reason there's been no song and dance about them is because there was a system in place to rectify those errors.

Yes, and the only one that affected the outcome of a match (or may have done) was when Hussey wasn't given lbw on the third morning at Brisbane. There could be no complaints as we had wasted our reviews.

Edit - although we didn't have it in either Bangladesh series IIRC.

 

[vcs]

All of which are irrelevant to the pressing matter at hand, i.e. ensuring that you're clothed.

A more suitable analogy would be a choice between crotchless underwear and underwear that isn't crotchless. Would you take the crotchless underwear because it atleast covers up your ass crack? That's better than nothing, isn't it?

Haha, if I had a signature, I would put that in there.

What a bizarre path this thread is taking.

 

[smash84]

All of which are irrelevant to the pressing matter at hand, i.e. ensuring that you're clothed.

A more suitable analogy would be a choice between crotchless underwear and underwear that isn't crotchless. Would you take the crotchless underwear because it atleast covers up your ass crack? That's better than nothing, isn't it?

lol........not that your analogy fits perfectly but it is funny........i think i will take the crotchless underwear.............

and what will you do???? keep your ass exposed to all and sundry?????????

 

[G.I.Joe]

lol........not that your analogy fits perfectly but it is funny........i think i will take the crotchless underwear.............

and what will you do???? keep your ass exposed to all and sundry?????????

No, I'd take the underwear that isn't crotchless

 

[G.I.Joe]

Haha, if I had a signature, I would put that in there.

What a bizarre path this thread is taking.

I blame the BCCI.

 

[smash84]

No, I'd take the underwear that isn't crotchless

lol...........but that isn't available to you..........the big bad bully has kept it locked away and now you only have the option of going around totally exposed or partially exposed.....what do you choose?????

 

[G.I.Joe]

lol...........but that isn't available to you..........the big bad bully has kept it locked away and now you only have the option of going around totally exposed or partially exposed.....what do you choose?????

I think men look like tools in crotchless underwear. Pun unintended.

On a serious note, thats precisely my point. Why keep the underwear locked away? Whats the rationale for that? Does it hurt you to admit to its existence? Fair enough I'd accept the crotchless solution (so to speak) if it was proven to me that regular underwear doesn't exist or it is not feasible to implement it. Maybe its just my stubbornness, but I'm not going to take it as axiomatic that regular underwear is not an option, without good reason.

 

[smash84]

I think men look like tools in crotchless underwear. Pun unintended.

 

[smash84]

. Maybe its just my stubbornness, but I'm not going to take it as axiomatic that regular underwear is not an option, without good reason.

Yes it is your stubbornness GI, it is

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

What at G.I.Joke!

Surely the UDRS hasn't improved since it was first introduced?

Never.

 

[Blaze 18]

@ the last few posts about underwear.

 

[silentstriker]

Opponents of UDRS seem to basically be arguing that a 95% system is better than a 99% system because the latter isn't 100%.

And bears repeating yet again.

 

[morgieb]

Yes, and the only one that affected the outcome of a match (or may have done) was when Hussey wasn't given lbw on the third morning at Brisbane. There could be no complaints as we had wasted our reviews.

Edit - although we didn't have it in either Bangladesh series IIRC.

Why not?