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One would be seeing a lot such Decisions in the Finals.. Dont Worry..
so you are a fortune teller.. are you??
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One would be seeing a lot such Decisions in the Finals.. Dont Worry..
I am getting fed up with these cricket threads . Everyone is coming up with their own commentary and self analysis of the game. There are many others thing to talk about beside cricket and game is done. Get over it and move on.
Not that it matters but have a look at this.......it kind of proves my theory.
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In real time in the image on the left, the ball has hit Tendulkar on the inside of his front leg while hawk eye shows it hitting in the middle of the pad in the image to the right.
Dude you need to have a good look, in real time, the snap shot is of when ball hit the pad, pad is pressed in back side and ball is about to leave after deflection..Whereas Hawk eye view is when ball gives first touch to pad..Both are at DIFFERENT moments of time separated by some mini secs..It could also be verified by location of left leg of Akmal in both pics, in one its toe is bit in air and in other it is totally grounded
Is Hawkeye affecting umpires' decisions?
TNN / Partha Bhaduri
NEW DELHI, July 30: Is Hawkeye hitting the bull’s eye as a predictive tool for judging leg-before-wicket decisions? There is no doubt it makes the presentation more interesting, but increasingly, it has started playing God. And it’s only natural that this will have some effect on the umpires out in the middle. The question is, to what extent has the intense scrutiny of Hawkeye’s missile-tracking technology affected an umpire’s decision-making? And how is the game changing as a result?
The 14 LBW decisions at Lord’s (which included some howlers) and Simon Taufel’s decision at Trent Bridge to give Tendulkar out for offering his pad when the ball was clearly outside the line might have elicited the debate but it only points to a recent trend. Many umpires, both domestic and international, have their doubts about the technology but feel Hawkeye’s evidence has prompted umpires to become bolder while adjudicating LBW dismissals.
But one of the most respected of them all, former umpire Dickie Bird, feels the technology is leading the game down the garden path. "Hawkeye is rubbish," he told TOI, "All it has given the game is controversy, and put umpires under more stress. More than 50 per cent of the time it shows the ball would have gone on to hit the stumps or brushed a coat of paint on the bails when any district-level umpire could have told you it could not have been given LBW. Hawkeye cannot tell you the bounce of the pitch, the ball’s deviation in the air, the seam or spin of the ball... But under-pressure umpires are giving more front-foot LBWs than ever before. It’s a good thing for the bowlers, especially the spinners, but where will it end?"
Bird thinks there have been "a lot of mistakes made" in the Trent Bridge Test "by some good umpires" and feels "it is because of technology". "The authority of the umpire is compromised."
However, Dr Paul Hawkins, inventor of the technology, feels, "Hawkeye has never imposed itself on any sport, whether cricket or tennis. It is a decision-making tool to resolve the tightest calls, in places where human judgment is no longer enough".
Another former umpire, AV Jayaprakash, says: "It is an innovative tool, no doubt, and maybe what it has done is to readjust the line of sight of umpire. This prompts umpires to give more front-foot LBWs because they’ve seen that Hawkeye shows the ball hitting the stumps anyway."
But how does one judge the accuracy of a predictive tool? More than six cameras are placed around the stadium: At long-on, long-off, fine-leg, third-man and two square of the wicket. Three of these capture 3D images of the ball’s trajectory at 120 frames per second at various places till the point of impact - say the ball hitting the pad or the bat - and then predict its trajectory beyond that point using factors like swing and deviation. Bird feels this is the grey area, and on sunny days the ball’s shadow might even hinder the mechanism.
The processing and simulation is through computers but these are operated by humans. In short, there might be no way to judge the minimum performance requirement of the technology. "It’s only an inference," says former umpire, SK Bansal, "I don’t agree it is influencing umpires. But yes, if Hawkeye shows a ball in line was hitting the stumps, and the umpire doesn’t give it, there are murmurs."
The technology’s accuracy apart, that is what it’s all about. It’s a more or less accepted intrusion and will have ramifications. Some umpires feel it is compromising the game but they don’t have definite proof that this is influencing the course of game. Even Steve Bucknor made some insinuations a while back, but has since refused to comment.
A different insight is offered by Bird: "Why do you think the ICC decided to refer LBW decisions to the third umpire in the ICC Champions Trophy in 2004, but then discontinued it? The umpire would like it if the heat was taken off him. It’s actually top-order batsmen who don’t want it, because they are used to getting the benefit of doubt from umpires. With Hawkeye, they would be getting out all the time! In tennis it’s only used to judge line calls, and already the great Roger Federer is dead against it."
There’s clearly no one viewpoint on the issue, except one: The Hawkeye, and by extension the new Red Zone/Hot Spot, the Snickometer and the super Slo-Mo cameras, all mean that an umpire’s actions are now judged in almost microscopic detail. And that could make life difficult for everybody out in the middle, especially if the technology isn’t foolproof.
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