Feeyaar, oru 100 umpiring decisions IndiakedhirA nadandhappuRam pEsuvOmA?
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Feeyaar, oru 100 umpiring decisions IndiakedhirA nadandhappuRam pEsuvOmA?
Say about 5 in favourof veLLaikaaranga and 5 against India in comparable circumstances would do to start.
btw just to be clear on the count, the no-ball yesterday doesn't count if the rule is indeed as stated by puLiyan :lol2:
Start counting from Dhoni no ball...
Adhellam pala thadava naan kettuten, no proper response.Quote:
Originally Posted by PARAMASHIVAN
Flau, Greg Baum yaar peththa piLLaiyO enakku theriyaadhu, here's a good article on DRS by him which you may like (though I don't agree about his "we should wait for perfection" conclusion)
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Ball-tracking is equally dubious. It ought not to be forgotten that it is a computer-generated graphic re-imagining the delivery, not replaying it. In a recent incident, ball-tracking and Hot Spot showed the same ball to be pitching in different places. What ball-tracking shows after the ball pitches is sometimes baffling to the instincts of all who have played or watched the game.
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Yet in a short time, the DRS has come to be accepted as infallible. This fits a tendency in all walks of life to devolve responsibility, if possible, to inanimate devices.
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None of this is to assert that there is no place for the DRS in cricket. But it is to agree with India - to the extent that the world is owed a better explanation than it has been given about the veracity of the DRS technology, and that it needs to be standardised if it is to be fair. I would add that cricket needs to wean itself off an almost infantile dependence. When skilful sportsmen, experienced umpires and impassioned fans are reduced to dwelling on a computer's imperfect guesstimate about whether more or less than half the ball would have hit leg stump, cricket becomes a cartoon.
Greg Baum - is angling for the cross-culture, great cricket writer mantle left vacant by Peter Roebuck. Remember the Indian newspaper contracts got by Roebuck after his Ponting article in 2008? Baum hasn't been extreme in the past but has shown typical Aussie jingoism on occasion. But ever since Roebuck's demise, one can see a conscious attempt to talk on behalf of India :lol:. Right now, for instance, Mahavishnu has turned to Ted Corbett to fill in for Reobuck. Ted used to be their overseas expert before Roebuck took that over. There are, as always, wheels within wheels. But of all Aussie writers, if I am asked to select one journalist to buy off to represnet India(bcci)'s view, he would be second choice behind Haigh. Haigh is a true-blue Aussie patriot, not easily swayed by Indian money(he is well compensated by Murdoch) so I am ok to settle for Baum :)
idhai siknAture-AvE neenga vachchukkalaam :lol2:Quote:
There are, as always, wheels within wheels.
tyfical jingoisamA...hmm...
Ted Corbett used to cover only England, no? Understated sense of humour, but directed a lot against England. Of course, he was prolific during the disastrous Atherton reign (when there was more dependence on him) and they gave him enough material to rib. But, pleasant reading apart he never had anything too insightful to say. Roebuck was much too pro-India for my liking, but invariably had something interesting to say.
Baum - mind-la vachchugaREn...
Yeah, Ted. It is a sign of changing times that his curtain-raiser for this series is something to the effect of "this is a battle for second place. England are way ahead". That's fine, Ted, but don't you think that is a tad harsh on the eternal chokers from the souther shores of Africa? Or is it?
3rd Test of SA vs SL start's right after our first day's Play. Camaannnn SL. Meanwhile, Ingilaandhu is preparing it's first title defense against old foes Pakistan. Another Rakhta charithra waiting to explode starting Jan 17th.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTU...800/140811.jpg
http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan...es/531615.html
The irony,The tragedy and.. :lol:
ICC Comb XI v England XI at Dubai (GCA)
Jan 7-9, 2012 (10:00 local | 06:00 GMT | 11:30 IST)