Explains every review decision step-by-step, making it absolutely clear to everyone how and why the final decision was arrived at. What exactly is stopping VAR in football from doing the same? We might not have got a penalty at Wembley or had Phillips' red card reversed, but at least we'd have understood why.
It would be worth watching just to see how a former referee would justify the turning down of the penalty.
tbf it's very definitive in cricket. the foot is either over the line or it isn't. the ball is either pitching in line or it isn't. the ball is either hitting the wicket or it isn't. it's either got an edge or it hasn't. they're all definitives, and the laws are very clear. like whether a football has crossed the line, or whether a player is offside. the farce with VAR for me is around decisions which are still ultimately subjective, particularly whether something is a foul, or intentional. I personally think VAR should be scrapped now, for everything but offside. if it can't be consistently right, it shouldn't be used at all IMO.
I think that Duckett's non- dismissal today proved that there is still a certain degree of subjectivity in the way that cricket rules are applied. I agree though that it's not on the same level as football. But even so, there is still reasoning as to how and why the ref chooses to interpret a decision as he does. Explaining this reasoning for the benefit of the crowd and players is not a particularly outlandish idea.
It would have gone along the lines of, have we got another view, penalty denied because Wednesday are more MASSIVE
The law that applies in football relevant to our non penalty is definitive. It's just that the officials chose to ignore the rules
No the rule in Cricket is pretty straight forward if you allow the ball to touch the grass whilst taking the catch it's not out Starc quite clearly grounds the ball whilst taking the catch just because Aussie tossers like McGrath etc are crying about it doesn't change the facts.
Andrew Strauss also said he felt it was a fair catch. McGrath did seem to get extra worked up about it, but Ricky Ponting was much more measured in his assessment, pointing out that the ball was in Starc's hand for longer than most catches before it touched the ground, especially when the fielder catches it then immediately tosses up in the air in celebration.
