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    Posted: 22 November 2005 at 10:48pm
As I sit here on the eve of the 3rd Test Aus v WI in Adelaide (for which I have my ticket), I cant help but think that I will be robbed of the opportunity to watch B Lara for the last time due to another poor umpiring decision. I dearly hope this is not the case, but it gives me pause to reflect on the 3rd umpire experiment during the recent Supertests. I for one am in favour of the technology;as long as it is not "abused" with over-zealous appeals, it should be put into place ASAP. The game itself has evolved - time to move forward with the umpiring.
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Lara has been unlucky with decisions, but I maintain my argument that we don't get enough overs bowled as it is and if we introduce more technology we'll end up with 60 overs a day.

7 day Test matches anyone, to accomodate technology?
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I bet zubeee hasn't thought of that.  
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Yes well, over rates aside, a 7-day test is a very interesting proposition, one I hadn't considered. Would it be viable, though, from a financial perspective? I know in the past there were "unlimited" test matches, would it bring in the dollars over the duration though?
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I very much doubt it. I seriously think that if we let third umpires decide lbws, and everything else, we'd lose a lot of time and then we'd have more problems on our hands.
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The time factor is a concern, its definitely a hard one to weigh up. As a couple of commentators have said here in Aus recently; have a quick look, and if you cant tell from 1 or 2 replays then benefit to the batsman. Its these inside edges onto pads that get given lbw which concern me the most, surely only one super-slo-mo is required, hardly time consuming I would have thought.
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I guess not, but the more the we introduce technology, the more you reduce the role of the on field umpires who do a really good job as it is.
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Yeah true, and I see a situation where a team could use the time-factor as a means of changing momentum/upsetting concentration of the batsman, as well as generally annoying them. I guess I havent got over Martyn's shocker during the Ashes, seems to have affected him quite badly...
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Besides, I'm a firm believer in 'what goes around comes around' so I'd prefer to see things left as they are.
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I would also prefer it if things were left as it is, if there were to be 7 day tests, then if the test was one sided it would be boring because it would be over in 3 days and the rest of the days are just a waste.
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the funniest thing is that rudi koertzen is the staunchest advocate for keeping technology out of the game, yet he's doing his best to make a case for it by making some pretty poor decisions.

at the end of the day though we have the benefit of tv replays and that's why we can be so critical of umpires, they have a split second to make the decision.

think if you add another decision for them to make, how much more complicated it will be - now not only will they have to decide if the bowler over stepped etc. they will have to decide if they should refer it to the 3rd umpire



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Ask Warney if they should concentrate harder on bowlers overstepping - it cost him a century.
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Yea, that's a good point. Maybe we are a bit too harsh on the umpires.
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Originally posted by dr_dice

Yes well, over rates aside, a 7-day test is a very interesting proposition, one I hadn't considered. Would it be viable, though, from a financial perspective? I know in the past there were "unlimited" test matches, would it bring in the dollars over the duration though?


It's a non-starter Dr. The last test played beyond 5 days was "The Timeless Test" in Durban in 1938. Becuase the match supposedly had to reach a positive conclusion (ie not a draw) the batting was incredibly slow . The match lasted TEN days and ended - you've guessed it , in a draw !!!! It was the most number of runs ever scored in a test match and it put the paying public to sleep. The idea was rightly scrapped after this marathon bore.

The reason it ended as a draw?? England had to get back to Cape Town to catch their boat home !!!
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Wrong Sledger,

The last test played that was 7 days ( I read this in Javed Miandad's Biography)was the 5th test of the Pakistan/West Indies series in 1988. It was 7 days because they wanted to produce a result in the series... it was quite a close series with Pakistan losing at the end.
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