ICC ****s all over the game again - UDRS no longer mandatory

[Flem274*]

I don't see why human umpires are so holy in the first place. I watch cricket for the players and the game, and the last thing I want is some random making a crap decision.

 

[marc71178]

I hope there's no DRS this summer. WIll be so much fun

There won't be.

9 out of the 10 want it, but there needs to be agreement for it to be applied so the 1 that rules the roost will get their way whenever they play.

 

[GotSpin]

There won't be.

9 out of the 10 want it, but there needs to be agreement for it to be applied so the 1 that rules the roost will get their way whenever they play.

As long as that 1 is happy all is well I guess

 

[uvelocity]

I've a question about UDRS that I cbf looking up the answer to for myself:

Is it only wickets/potential wickets that can be refered and overturned?

For example, if someone bowls a wide in a one day fixture, but they're sure it brushed the batsman's leg, are they able to refer the decision, and subsequently, is the third umpire allowed to overturn the decision?

narp. sonly wickets.

Also the worst thing they could do with drs is give the umps on the field the chance to draw a tv in the air like they do with run outs, or there will be 8 or 9 referrals per over.

 

[benchmark00]

Say a bowler bowls down the leg side in an ODI. They appeal as they think the batsman has hit it. The umpire gives it a wide. It gets refered as the fielding team believe the batsman has hit it, but it turns out it has come off the thigh guard.

Is the third umpire allowed to award a dot ball instead of a wide?

 

[uvelocity]

Say a bowler bowls down the leg side in an ODI. They appeal as they think the batsman has hit it. The umpire gives it a wide. It gets refered as the fielding team believe the batsman has hit it, but it turns out it has come off the thigh guard.

Is the third umpire allowed to award a dot ball instead of a wide?

no. they cant adjudicate on forward passes or wides.

 

[Smudge]

Forward passes?

 

[uvelocity]

only knock ons and grounding

 

[GotSpin]

So Australia have elected to run with the wind towards the Paddington end so Pakistan will kick off...

Pakistan to kick off? What ****ing game are we playing here

 

[robelinda]

So Australia have elected to run with the wind towards the Paddington end so Pakistan will kick off...

Pakistan to kick off? What ****ing game are we playing here

Leave the door open Geoff, bit stuffy in here....

Ah **** i left the windows on the bloody Vitesse, its not even my car, could you go and close them for me Geoff?

 

[GotSpin]

Leave the door open Geoff, bit stuffy in here....

Ah **** i left the windows on the bloody Vitesse, its not even my car, could you go and close them for me Geoff?

One player in particular has been told to book his ticket home...book his ticket... hold on Mark i just have to fix something

The result of this match pretty much a foregone conclusion really, and that's how I like them

 

[uvelocity]

haha nice work

 

[weldone]

Make DRS mandatory, make Aleem Dar the third umpire, Simon Taufel the system operator, GeraintIsMyHero and Spikey the two ground umpires, and let every ****ing decision be made by the third umpire, and let ground umpires only be there to tie the shoe-laces of Indian batsmen...

I will support DRS !!!

 

[duffer]

And pretty sure that Indian people can be racist towards Indian people as well. It is all about context and in the manner that post was made, it was pretty offensive.

Oh good god.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Make DRS mandatory, make Aleem Dar the third umpire, Simon Taufel the system operator, GeraintIsMyHero and Spikey the two ground umpires, and let every ****ing decision be made by the third umpire, and let ground umpires only be there to tie the shoe-laces of Indian batsmen...

I will support DRS !!!

You support getting through barely 20 overs of cricket in a day then?

 

[Spark]

i think the word you're looking for is facetious

 

[weldone]

You support getting through barely 20 overs of cricket in a day then?

...slightly better than the system operator showing replays from a delivery 21 overs ago while a decision is reviewed...