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Classic contests that DRS would've ruined

Daemon

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definitely not handled the ball

At the risk of stating the obvious, every example in this thread is probably preceded (and followed) by multiple incorrect decisions going either way in the very same match which also would have been changed with DRS, rendering the contention that DRS changes these matches exactly as we are claiming pretty weak.

obviously it's just a fun exercise but just felt like saying that
Except Sydeny '08 #never4get #cheatingaussies

Were the Zimbos robbed against SL in 2017 or did I dream that up?
 

stephen

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definitely not handled the ball

At the risk of stating the obvious, every example in this thread is probably preceded (and followed) by multiple incorrect decisions going either way in the very same match which also would have been changed with DRS, rendering the contention that DRS changes these matches exactly as we are claiming pretty weak.

obviously it's just a fun exercise but just felt like saying that
I dunno, I'm pretty sure the second tied test wouldn't have been tied with DRS. Probably the first one wouldn't have been either. Butterfly effect and all that.
 

SteveNZ

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If DRS was in place at Edgbaston, we'd have had the game wrapped up long before that came to pass, they got away with a plumb lbw. Wouldn't Kaspa still be out anyway though, handled the ball? Seems to go both ways on here whenever that comes up

Ashes 05 would definitely look very different with DRS though
Handled ball has to be deliberate, does it not?
 

trundler

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But you could hypothetically be caught from that so that's a contradiction of sorts. Gloves count as part of the bat when it comes to catches.
 

Fuller Pilch

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1987/88 Boxing Day test wouldn't have had Hadlee to Whitney in the last over as Danny Morrison's plumb LBW shout on Craig McDermott would've been given. Also Greg Dyer might not have claimed that catch off Andrew Jones and might've had a longer career.
 

TheJediBrah

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But you could hypothetically be caught from that so that's a contradiction of sorts. Gloves count as part of the bat when it comes to catches.
no it's either one or the other. If the glove is on the bat you can be caught but not lbw, if the glove is off the bat you can't be caught but (hypothetically) could be lbw
 
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honestbharani

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lol @ stephen thinking DRS will overturn a ball hitting the batsman outside off and carrying on, over a LBW appeal.
 

vcs

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'96 Final turned out to be a walk in the park for SL, so even if Ranatunga had gotten out then, it would have been a case of DRS making a contest rather than ruining it
 

Lillian Thomson

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If we're taking random decisions in World Cup Finals Ian Botham was 100% indisputably sawn off for a duck when opening in England's reply against Pakistan in 1992. He might have been deprived of a match winning century or he might have been out next ball anyway. But that doesn't fit the thread either.
 

Moss

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England won 2-1 in Sri Lanka in 2001 (recalled wonderfully by Rob Smyth below) and the second and third tests were disputably classic contests.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/mar/14/the-spin-england-sri-lanka-2001

"They had struggled against the spin of Murali and Jayasuriya at Galle. but Duncan Fletcher's expertise against slow bowling was beginning to bear fruit. The forward press, sweeping and pad play were to the fore, and by the end of the series Murali was shot mentally. The approach was very much of its time, and you would be DRSed to death if you tried it these days. In 2001, there was already enough to worry about with the umpires."

I read about/followed that series more closely than I watched it, but the above passage suggests the presence of DRS would have made it a lot harder for England to get a foothold in the series with their tactics.

And of course, some of the umpiring was so terrible (BC Cooray in particular) it actually added to making the series as a compelling and memorable one.
 
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