Cricket Australia’s chief James Sutherland wants sensible use of technology
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Alexander-Sutherland-c65430, the Cricket Australia’s (CA’s) chief, has asked for a sensible use of umpiring technology otherwise things will not be headed towards the right direction for cricket.
According to Sutherland, “Until we actually get that consistency, we’re going to find ourselves open to ridicule for not quite getting it right. It is partly a financial issue. There are other issues about access to equipment at the moment and some other
concerns that member countries have.”
However, the CA chief further added, “One of my concerns is that under the laws of the game, the batsman should never lose that benefit of the doubt. Sometimes it would appear to me that technology is confusing that.”
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has not been able to convince all teams for the use of technology, as there are a lot of question marks over the use of ball tracking system Hawk-Eye.
The system is not believed to be 100 percent accurate and has caused a lot of confusions for some of the teams. The latest of them was the dismissal of Australia’s opening batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Phillip-Hughes-c2185, who was adjudged leg-before-wicket (lbw) after the replays
wrongly showed that the ball would have hit the stumps.
According to the replays, the ball pitched within the stumps and spun towards the off-stump. It could have missed the stumps easily, but Hawk-Eye suggested that the ball would have crashed into the leg-stump, going straight with the angle.
Hawk-Eye’s managing director http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harold-William-Stephenson-c61707 Carter admitted that the mistake had been made, but he defended the system by saying that this was the first ever error since the system had been introduced.
This was not the first time when Hawk-Eye came under the scanner. The system’s accuracy was questioned during a game of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 and India.
During the match, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556 was hit on his front pad and the replays indicated that the ball will easily hit the stumps. However, Hawk-Eye’s prediction was that the ball would miss the leg-stump.
Although many eyebrows were raised back then, the matter was not taken much seriously.
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