Hauritz and Strauss catches, Lord's Test

[Richard]

TBH I don't think either of them were out, but the real point was consistency in umpiring, but with Doctrove umpiring these things should be expected.

But consistency doesn't mean that you treat dissimilar cases in the same way. If (and it's a big if) the umpires were both unsighted and/or unsure in the case of Hauritz, they should have referred it to the 3rd ump; if (another big if) one considered that he was sure that Strauss' catch was clean, then they shouldn't refer it to the 3rd ump. The cases were in that key sense dissimilar. The fact that both were close calls does not change that.

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If you want to criticise Doctrove, there is some amount of legit reason to - you could claim that there's no way he could've been sure Strauss caught that and thus made an error of sight, same as one of failing to give an obvious glove down leg out. But there was not any inconsistency, I don't know how many times this has to be said.

 

[Julian87]

Disagree with Richard, as per usual.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Because people are saying 1,000,001 other things in the match thread, which goes at about 50 posts per minute when a game's on, and 90 posts per minute in the eventuality of that sort of scandal. All of which means not even close to all posts on the matter are read, and the ones that make important points (like, well, yes, mine) are easily missed.

Hence, I feel a separate thread is appropos, and would've been distinctly displeased at any mod who elected to close this.

 

[zaremba]

Indeed, some people even booed him when he got his ton because of that (I was there on that day)

I meant to pick up on this a while back. Is there an outside chance that you were party to such behaviour?

 

[Richard]

Disagree with Richard, as per usual.

So much so that one wonders why you even bother posting about it.

 

[GIMH]

I meant to pick up on this a while back. Is there an outside chance that you were party to such behaviour?

Nah, from memory I think I just sat there when he went to his ton, clapped politely. Booed him when he came out to field though IIRC, though that we near the end of the day and I was pretty drunk, so can't be sure