UPDATE: LegBreak from Sportsfreak adds to the intrigue...
Some kind soul has paused their TV and taken this photograph. It's the ball from which Australian #11 Nathan Lyon was given out LBW on Monday, before the UDRS overruled it.
The URDS showed the ball pitching outside leg stump. This photograph clearly shows that the ball clearly did NOT pitch outside leg. Either the UDRS system failed, or there was human intervention.
Sort it out ICC. Had New Zealand lost the test match because of this error, we would be far more caustic now than we are already.
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Got it now.
We're back at that RWC penalty kick again...there's nothing to give us any clue as to the angle this was taken from.
Surely there must be a still from the camera behind the ump?
Totally irrelevant to the post but I thought the word thingy below that has come up more appropriate to Whale Oil - lol
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And here are the two different shots superimposed onto each other with an explanation of how it can be done.
http://www.sportsfreak.co.nz/wp/?p=1456
(Forgotten how to link elegantly sorry)
The camera view from which that shot was taken was directly in line with the line of the ball when it hit the pad demonstrating that the ball would have gone on to hit the base of leg stump.
No doubt Cricket Oz will have banned that cameraman from all future tests.
That's not evidence inventory, do we know that that camera was directly inline with both middle stumps? Over a distance of about 100m, just being offset by a meter can make a big difference to the angle of view. Given they have a minimum of two cameras at each end (one for wide angle shot and one for close shot) then it would be most likely that neither are directly inline. Now the referral system uses four fixed high speed cameras that track the ball 200+ framesas it is in flight, are you suggesting that this one camera 'angle' trumps the technology?
The suggestion of some kind of tampering with the system is really unbecoming. Take the win, enjoy that rare feeling, and then reflect on the more important issues nz batting line up needs to deal with.
If my memory serves me correctly, it was actually given not out because the ball would have missed leg stump. I may be wrong (it happened once!)
Assuming that was the referral that was given out by the Ump in live action first response was out, when the replay put it on the back foot, then I was certain.
We will live with the technology and averages will prevail still, but that example left me more than a little uneasy,
Smithy was rather exercised too.
I think you can see by the creases that the camera is as square as dammit...
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