07-28-2023, 03:23 PM
(07-28-2023, 03:20 PM)Ted Maul Wrote:(07-28-2023, 03:19 PM)SuperBob2002 Wrote: Desperately unlucky from Bairstow, but would a genuine wicket keeper have taken that cleanly and not knocked the bails of before catching the ball?
Yes.
There is no controversy in that decision for me, he's broken the stumps too early.
Watch again. The side on view shows that the middle stump is knocked back with no bail on it. The umpire was arguing that the middle groove of the ball hadn't been removed from the stump before Smith mdae his ground, but it clearly had when you consider the side on view.
That is out to me.

