导出博客文章Mitchell Marshs hotly-debated LBW on the final day of the Perth Test was
correctly tracked from its initial point of impact on the allrounders front toe,
the custodians of EagleEye have confirmed.The decision, which was reversed from
Aleem Dars initial verdict of not out due to the widening of the zone in which
the stumps can be projected to hit by the ICC earlier this year, was openly
questioned by a succession of television commentators and also Australias
captain, Steven Smith, who said it was like Kagiso Rabada was bowling
leg-spin.The former captain Michael Clarke stated on Channel Nines cricket
coverage that he was certain the ball was going down the leg side. I was certain
that was missing the stumps, Clarke said. When you look at that replay, I
thought it was definitely swinging too far and missing the leg stump.Hell be
really disappointed with that. It has clipped his toe, then clipped his pad, and
then got onto the bat. But what I dont agree with is the line of the delivery
once the ball hits him on the toe ... I believe the line of that delivery is
going down and missing leg stump.Similar sentiments were echoed by Clarkes
predecessor Ricky Ponting, while another former captain in Mark Taylor - until
recently a member of the ICC cricket committee that has long advocated the use
of the DRS and ball-tracking - offered his own criticism of the
projection.However Ian Taylor, head of the New Zealand company Animation
Research that provides EagleEye for Nines broadcast, told ESPNcricinfo that the
tracking used for Marshs dismissal had been reviewed and not found to be in
error, either in terms of the projection reached or the process used to get
there.I talked to my guys [in Perth] and we talked to the ICC and showed the
process we went through, and were happy with it, Taylor said. They had a really
good pitching point off the pitch, and a really good contact point on the shoe,
it wasnt on the pad. They felt confident they could extrapolate from those two
points to make the prediction.They have the choice there of saying they think
there was insufficient data, but they saw it really clearly and it didnt
continue out on that line [down leg], it hit the foot right in front of middle
stump. We saw the impact on the toe before anyone else did, and we saw the
impact on the toe with our four cameras, and our guys confirmed it with the
HotSpot guys sitting with them. Thats where the projection was made, the line
from the bounce to the foot, to the stumps.Taylor offered an open invitation to
any sceptical commentators, officials or even umpires to visit the technology
operators and see things for themselves - not unlike the process by which the
BCCI recently approved the use of ball-tracking as part of the DRS, a system to
be used in the just-begun Test series between India and England.What surprises
me is so many people can make a call straight away with just seeing the replay
from the end-on view, when were going through four super slo-mo cameras and
HotSpot, Taylor said. That was the process they went through. I fully respect
the guys who spent their whole careers out in the middle, its an instinct they
have and that umpires have.We definitely dont dismiss that and we take very
seriously the views of those people. Our doors were open to all of the
commentators to come down at lunchtime - we had people wait there because we
thought someone might. Weve also re-affirmed to the ICC and all the umpires as
well that the door is always open, come on down and talk it through so we all
learn from it.Technology operators have advocated for some time that either the
third umpire or an ICC-accredited official sit alongside those working HotSpot,
EagleEye/HawkEye or other devices to provide clearer lines of accountability.The
issue for us is if we did this properly with a third umpire who was trained and
there [with the technology operators], he could have made the call that my guys
made, he said. Thats what we talk about - heres all the information weve got,
and you make a call whether you want us to project this on or not, because youre
an umpire.The argument we have about a third umpire or ICC-accredited person who
sits with our guys, the third umpire sitting up in the box does not know whats
going on down in our room. Whos talking, what were seeing, what were looking at,
what were replaying and what our thought process is. Weve always argued if we
had a fully qualified person from the ICC sitting in that room with everybody,
we would go with that.
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