Technology & Cricket and sports in general

[mekin]

I just wish that Cricket also adopts the rules recently added in Tennis - about the use of technology for a player / team to challenge decisions made by humans

Comments

[umang]

In fact, I quite dislike using some stupid computer to dismiss human judgement in tennis.

The ball is just HALF A MILLIMETRE on the bloody line and they call it in. Hell, that is as out as can be. I am not supposed to see that half a millimetre and therefore it is GOOD judgement if I let it go!

[mekin]

Good to see you on LJ Tej.

The problem seems to be that we dont have quality umpires or we have much better technology to be able to find flaws with the best ...

Simon Taufel, Aleem Dar & Steve bucknor are supposed to be amongst the top umpires ... and all of them have handed out a bad decision to Sachin in the last series ...

[preets]

True. I so agree with you.

[oldhen]

I'm really not convinced at all by Hawkeye technology in tennis, it's a predictive technology, not a super slow-motion replay. So, when they show that ball a half-millimetre outside the line, that's not the actual path of the ball, but the most likely path. What I'd like to see in both tennis and cricket is a blind trial of the technology, where they compare the Hawkeye predicted path with the actual trajectory..

[mekin]

I agree, and I definitely am not meaning to say that technology be used always for umpiring. I think the technology has a long way to go to get there, and the test you suggest would be a good start.

I only want it to be used when a player/team feels that the human umpire has made an error & only if the technology is able to "clearly" identify that error, that the judgement be overruled.

testing this one...

[anonymous]

thanks for the GREAT post! Very useful...