CRAZY EYE

Chris Rogers, writing about his one Test in Perth in 2008, appears a little skeptical about Hawk Eye:

Four magical, suffocating days in Perth

My mood wasn't made any better when standing next to the umpire who had given me out - Asad Rauf. He told me that if he'd had the benefit of the replay, he wouldn't have given me out. It felt like a punch to the chest. But I wasn't the first person to get a dodgy decision, and I won't be the last. Still, I respected him for telling me that, even after Hawk-Eye had estimated the ball was angling crazily back to clip the leg stump.

Comments

[m0nty]

Relevant link.

[Tony]

There's something Jennifer Gray and Chris Rogers have in common - one shot in the locker.

[m0nty]

I liked Jennifer Gray in Ferris Bueller. But that was a minor part.

[Tony]

So did Charlie Sheen.

[Big Ramifications]

Asad Rauf. He told me that if he'd had the benefit of the replay, he wouldn't have given me out [...] I respected him for telling me that, even after Hawk-Eye had estimated the ball was angling crazily back to clip the leg stump.

But the "benefit of the replay" would have also given him out, then? I thought the way LBW referrals go is 100% by the 3rd umpire having a gander at Hawkeye's decision. A trained ape could do the 3rd umpy's job in that respect.

The way the Nein Commentary Teem have the synergy with Hawkeye, and the referral... I've never seen an LBW referral disagree with the Hawkeye graphic wot us free-to-air plebs get to see.

Where have I gone wrong in interpreting Chris' quote? Is Dave Barry in da house?

[David Barry]

I think Rauf said what he did there on the basis of the replay and not the Hawkeye verdict. That is how I read the passage anyway - that series was before the DRS was in place and LBW reviews weren't formalised in the way they are now.

[Big Ramifications]

Crikey! Rub the bottle and the Genie appears.

Thanks, Dave.

[Tony]

If I remember that dismissal correctly, in the slo-mo replay the ball looked as if it was sliding down leg, but Pork Pie had the virtual ball clipping leg stump.

[Big Ramifications]

Thanks, "David."

apologies

just noticed that

lest anyone think I'm a BUFFOON or something

Boy in Police Station: Drugs?
Jennifer Gray: Thank you, no. I'm straight.
Boy in Police Station: I meant, are you in here for drugs?
Jennifer Gray: Why are you here?
Boy in Police Station: Drugs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCkTVESc0fQ

Do you reckon that was already an in-joke, even way back then? Either way, it went 30,000 feet over my head at the time.

[Tony]

It went over my head at the time because I had never previously heard of Charlie Sheen, even though I had seen Red Dawn.

[Big Ramifications]

I saw Taps at army cadet camp. What were they thinking?

Charlie Sheen was also good in Risky Business and Top Gun.

[Tony]

Charlie Sheen was in Taps? I saw Taps ate the Wickham Walk-Ins. When it had finished and Jaws 2 was about to start Alex Trott yelled out sarcastically "Bewdy, now for Taps 2!" Dreadful film.

[Big Ramifications]

Charlie Sheen was in Taps?

Erm **Homer Simpson shifty eyes** yesss... and all 3 Mission Impossibles and Eyes Wide Shut. I like how there's a running scene in nearly all his movies.