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Message: [QUOTE="CaptainHook, post: 3070359, member: 8315"] So... a few articles you may find of interest on the Stokes lbw non-dismissal. The mouth frothing and outrage on Twitter regarding the umpiring was the stuff of legend. I didn't think he was that bad. Greg Baum and Geoff Lemon (great writer on cricket) aren't so sure it was plum. Fifty-fifty call. Here is Baum: [I]But look again through those narrowing doors at the DRS image that "proves" Stokes was out. Inexplicably, it shows the ball straightening slightly after hitting Stokes' front pad. This is what it did in real life. But ball tracking is supposed to show the imaginary line the ball would have taken if it had not brushed Stokes' pad. It looks here as if the technology did not detect the first contact. This inconsistency introduces the heretical possibility that the ball, which was delivered from wide on the return crease, [/I]might[I] have been going on with the arm. It [/I]might[I] have been hitting, say, half of leg stump. It [/I]might[I] have been umpire's call. It [/I]might[I] have been missing.[/I] Geoff Lemon thinks that the way the ball moves on the ball tracker isn't natural: [I]The contention that he made a blatant mistake is not fair. Replays suggest HawkEye was questionable, tracking a change of direction after the ball flicked the front pad. The reconstructed ball straightens more sharply than is realistic and apparently smashes leg stump. But watching live it looked more like it might be going down leg, and Stokes’s flurry of movement across the crease increased that impression. It may have been out, but it was at least closer than portrayed, and it would be undermining DRS if umpires tempered their decisions based on which team had challenges in hand.[/I] Not that it matters much now but fascinating regardless. Here are the articles: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/ben-stokes-was-out-or-was-he-20190827-p52lbo.html[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/aug/26/australia-tim-paine-england-ashes-leadership[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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