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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by Bruce Rioja » Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:03 am

Nicko58 wrote:I've just watched the highlights and I'm not having it that the delivery that got Bell out was hitting leg stump.

I don't care what Hawkeye says.
Exactly that. It reckoned that there was a half a ball hitting leg. I'm not having any of it. It was a fecking lovely Yorker, but for me it was going down.
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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by Hoboh » Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:10 am

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Nicko58 wrote:I've just watched the highlights and I'm not having it that the delivery that got Bell out was hitting leg stump.

I don't care what Hawkeye says.
Exactly that. It reckoned that there was a half a ball hitting leg. I'm not having any of it. It was a fecking lovely Yorker, but for me it was going down.
Careful lads, you're beginning to sound like a pair of bitter Aussies :D

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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by BWFC_Insane » Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:32 am

Bruce Rioja wrote:
Nicko58 wrote:I've just watched the highlights and I'm not having it that the delivery that got Bell out was hitting leg stump.

I don't care what Hawkeye says.
Exactly that. It reckoned that there was a half a ball hitting leg. I'm not having any of it. It was a fecking lovely Yorker, but for me it was going down.
Michael Vaughan said the same. I'm not sure how any predictive system can tell swing and movement off the seam. However the tests show it is very accurate. And the same for both sides, so probably fair enough overall.

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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by Prufrock » Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:37 am

I'm convinced it got done by it hitting the front pad first. The line from where it pitched to his back leg would have been on, but it didn't do that, it went further down leg side before clipping his front pad then his back.
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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by Worthy4England » Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:55 am

Prufrock wrote:I'm convinced it got done by it hitting the front pad first. The line from where it pitched to his back leg would have been on, but it didn't do that, it went further down leg side before clipping his front pad then his back.
The first "point of interception" is the one that counts (and only the first point of interception). You're then trying to assess whether that point of interception would have pitched wicket to wicket and continuing on a line from there would have hit the wicket. Anything that causes an interception after that doesn't count...

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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by Prufrock » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:02 am

I guess that's the point I'm trying to make. How good is it at recognising "points of interception". Coz if it missed it hitting front pad before back, and though it hitting his back leg was the first point of interception, that would "straighten" the line it pitched on and make it look like it was hitting. Coz it definitely looked like it was creeping down leg on the replays.

Totally accept, btw, the most likely outcome is that they've totally thought of that^ and my eyes+brain combo isn't as good as Hawkeye :D.
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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by thebish » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:10 am

ha! wood just spanked Johnson for two fours in a row! Johnson not happy!

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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by TANGODANCER » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:24 am

I'm smiling big but not laughing out loudly yet. It's cricket and many strange things happen. Must say it's all looking very healthy right now. :D
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Post by TANGODANCER » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:25 am

Little Joe goes for 130 to a standing ovation. What a star....
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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by thebish » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:30 am

wood is destroying Johnson! :-)

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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by Prufrock » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:33 am

There's going to be some run rate this morning with Wood going like he is, Stokes just in, and Buttler and Moeen to come!
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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by Bruce Rioja » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:36 am

Wood? The bowler? Night watchman? Go boy! :D
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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by thebish » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:44 am

dang - buttler gone - Starc bowling his socks off!! 7 down

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Post by thebish » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:45 am

england's bowlers won't mind seeing the ball still doing a bit!

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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by Bruce Rioja » Fri Aug 07, 2015 12:22 pm

Stokes out for 5, I see. Not good enough!
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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by thebish » Fri Aug 07, 2015 12:25 pm

ha! bring on hazelwood - smacked for 3 fours and a six!! :oyea:

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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by thebish » Fri Aug 07, 2015 12:26 pm

they have taken wickets (or rather, Starc has) - but the run-rate has simply rocketed along!

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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by BWFC_Insane » Fri Aug 07, 2015 12:27 pm

More than 100 added today already. Starc has bowled well, but the Aussies cannot maintain enough line and length discipline for long enough periods.

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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by BWFC_Insane » Fri Aug 07, 2015 12:41 pm

England have declared..... :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: 2015 Ashes

Post by TANGODANCER » Fri Aug 07, 2015 12:46 pm

391 for 9 declared. Three hundred and thirty ahead. All depends on the bowlers now to upset a lot of weekend plans.... :wink:
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