Broad Shoulders

I'm not convinced the tech will get any better though. More importantly I'm also not convinced the ICC will administer the technology correctly either.

Case in point, had the 3rd Umpire also had the benefit of sniko as well as hotspot he would have been able to establish at exactly what point the noise was made and that would have then lead to the correct decision being made

This happened in the Ashes, with both Clarke and Bell getting away with shocking DRS reprievals. They were clearly out, both snicko and simple video replays said so, but hotspot couldn't "conclusively" say they weren't.

What I am getting at though, is that after those games, the ICC did nothing to try and improve the use of technology to try and rid the game of those blights. Why? Simply because Aus and Eng were already signatories to the DRS system, so the ICC didn't have to do anything, they already had them signed up. It all comes down to money, and the ICC knows that it cannot afford to use all the best technologies available and therefore we are left with a very substandard DRS system.

It has the capability of being excellent, but it is being shockingly administered.

Good on India, because in a way (probably unintentionally) they are forcing the ICC to improve and show India it is worth adopting.

At the moment, we would be better off without it.

Sherlock Holmes

Below are listed twenty Australian Test cricketers who were born overseas.

ENGLAND (10): Charles Bannerman, John Hodges, Tom Kendall, William Midwinter, Percy McDonnell, William Cooper, Henry Musgrove, Hanson Carter, Tony Dell and Andrew Symonds.
SCOTLAND (1): Archie Jackson.
IRELAND (2): Tom Horan, Tom Kelly.
SOUTH AFRICA (1): Kepler Wessels.
NEW ZEALAND (3): Tom Groube, Clarrie Grimmett and Brendon Julian.
INDIA (2): Bransby Cooper and Rex Sellers.
SRI LANKA (1): Dav Whatmore.

There are more recent ones I'm sure.

Alfresco

Good point. I agree.

I also think that if both teams decide to use it then that's good too, otherwise we'll hardly get the chance to see it working (or not working) properly.

If it never gets tested in the real world then progress will never be made.

Broad Shoulders

Yeah, there was at least one who was selected not long ago who was born in England, but I can't for the life of me remember who it was. There have been SSOOOOOOOOO many going through the Aus test revolving doors recently it is hard to remember them all.

Usman Kawajha was born in Pakistan

Broad Shoulders

25-2

Cook out down the legside, not sure what he was thinking there!

Vash the Stampede

Sweet shot, this is liquid cricket.

Broad Shoulders

How does it feel to be looking up the rankings from down there?

Try not to choke on those sour grapes Vash. I mean that genuinely, I really do.

At the moment India are merely papering over the still gaping cracks in Aussie cricket.

Broad Shoulders

KP gone, hooking, caught in the deep for 0

Gul is bowling very well!

Vash the Stampede

Wow, what is happening here? I thought Pietersen would be belting them to the boundaries by now.



*edit*

Oh my life, 4 for 35!!!

DeadVim

Pietersen hasn't belted anyone in a long while, least of all spinners.

42 for 4 ... Oh dear.

Michael Vaughan - "The way England have played here...India would give them a good game"

Vash the Stampede

Oops, I meant 4 for 35 of course.

Pakistan turning the screws now. Run rate is all but non-existent.

Bernieboy

You were saying dear boy

Bernieboy

He's a splitter

DeadVim

There still is, one decent partnership and the ebb turns to a flow.

Not likely, obviously.

Broad Shoulders

...not now 5 down

This one is a convincing loss, but in the past we have come back from these with a well polished win, so let's hope we continue this trend.