Jaiswal, batting on 84, attempted to hook a bouncer from Pat Cummins, the ball was caught by wicketkeeper Alex Carey, the Australians appealed, on-field umpire Joel Wilson said not-out, and Australia reviewed the decision.
“It’s about the technology, which we know is not 100% – more often than not we are the ones falling on the wrong side of it… that’s where we are unfortunate.”
“In my view, the decision was out,” Taufel said on Channel 7. “The third umpire did make the correct decision in the end. With the technology protocols, we do have a hierarchy of redundancy and when the umpire sees a clear deflection off the bat there is no need to go any further and use any other form of technology to prove the case. The clear deflection is conclusive evidence.
“The optical illusion suggests there is an edge. It was this optical illusion here as well. If the technology evidence suggests it is not out, then you cannot give it out”
Sunil Gavaskar
“In this particular case, what we have seen from the third umpire is they have used a secondary form of technology, which for whatever reason hasn’t shown the same conclusive evidence of audio to back up the clear deflection. In the end, the third umpire did the right thing and went back to the clear deflection and overturned the umpire field. So, in my view correct decision made.”
“We have seen so many times that the ball swings late after going very close to the edge of the bat. We have seen it so many times, haven’t we, that the ball does not take the edge, but goes very close and swings later after hitting the seam,” he said. “From afar it seems that the ball has taken the edge. I am talking about a forward defence, not talking about this hook shot.
“The optical illusion suggests there is an edge. It was this optical illusion here as well. If the technology evidence suggests it is not out, then you cannot give it out.”
On the live broadcast on Star Sports, Mark Nicholas and Sanjay Manjrekar called it a “brave” call by the third umpire.
“On Jaiswal’s dismissal, I think it’s very brave of the third umpire to over-ride Snicko,” Nicholas said. “I think that’s pretty rare too.”
Manjrekar said, “These are not the best angles, there was one angle given which was front-on, and that’s where you see the deflection when you see it visually, then you see the Snicko that reconfirms everything. Any other umpire would have gone, well, if the Snicko was not showing it – and I love Snicko as a technology – I’m not going to give that out. That also would be accepted by us.”
“I don’t know if any other umpire, I mean my guess is that it runs off both bat and glove, that’s a total guess,” Nicholas added. “I think that’s the problem watching that replay. Or any other replays.”
