coffee_rules Posted October 26, 2013 Posted October 26, 2013 Televisions pictures showed du Plessis was doing exactly that. He was rubbing the dry side of the ball on his trousers, in "vicinity of the zipper on his trouser pocket" as the ICC's release put it. Du Plessis' actions were brazen, they were easily found out by the cameras, immediately picked up by the television umpire, conveyed to his on-field colleagues and quickly acted on. The changes made to the playing conditions at the beginning of this month allowed Ian Gould and Rod Tucker to deal with the issue as soon as it happened. Why can't the TV umpire pick up blatant mistakes of umpires like the front foot no-ball, inside-edged LBWs and bump catches and rectify the mistakes as quickly as they did here. It is frustrating to watch somebody given out by howlers.
Executioner Posted October 26, 2013 Posted October 26, 2013 That will waste a lot of time and there are reasons why DRS is used. Cricket goes on and on for too long. No use of such delays
coffee_rules Posted October 26, 2013 Author Posted October 26, 2013 I think ICC/MCC is already thinking of implementing this. Only the blatantly wrong dismissals like the Barbie variety.
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