*****Official Ashes thread*****

This series has been full of crazy umpire decisions. Looks like they're staying off, so I might as well go to bed.
 
This whole series really has shown up a lot of the teething problems with new tech around cricket.

DRS affects the spirit of the game. Batsmen did, in the past, walk. Now the onus is on the fielding team (quite rightly) to review decisions they believe to be wrong. With DRS in place, I don't have anything against batsmen not walking.

The bad light issue is ridiculous. It always used to be up to the batting side. Just because they've introduced floodlights, there is no reason that should have changed.
 
Bad light is usually the hot topic of discussion in cricket, well it was before DRS came in anyway!

Seems the rule has changed now so the umpires make the call not the batting side to supposedly take the chance of coming off/staying on tactically out of the equation.

Though from the sounds of it it's still tactical but for the fielding side now as the umpire asked Cook to bowl spin and he said no thus leaving the umps no choice but to go off!
 
Psycho Ned said:
Though from the sounds of it it's still tactical but for the fielding side now as the umpire asked Cook to bowl spin and he said no thus leaving the umps no choice but to go off!
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That always happened in the past as well to be fair. It's just that for some ridiculous reason the batsmen are no longer asked for their views.
 
The fact remains though that with floodlights installed it should be a none event, its 2013 for gods sake hook them up to a pc and have them on at a benchmark reading. We should not be even having this discussion.
 
Just to confirm, umpire's stated difficulty seeing balls from square leg, hence the bad light call
 
We can't win from here, but I'll take consolation in the fact that England has been comprehensively outplayed.

Cook was in a state of panic, resorting to deliberate timewasting tactics and refusing to play spin.

Cricinfo:

Of course they could have carried on, and should have. Cricket wants to modernise but these judgements, these arbitrary decisions not to play, do nothing but hurt the game.

Traditionally, batsmen were offered the choice of playing on or leaving the field due to bad light. But in 2010 the ICC altered the rule, in part so that batsmen could not make tactical decisions to go off.

The change has sent cricket further back into the dark ages.
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