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KL Rahul’s resistance is over.
He’s edged Starc and the Indian opener is out for 26 off 73, with India reduced to 4-47.
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Rahul isn’t convinced at all that it was ball on bat rather than bat on pad, shaking his head and having words with the umpires.
The 32-year-old has to go and now Dhruv Jurel is seeing off a few minutes before lunch.
A slow-motion replay has since confirmed the review was correct - Rahul edged the ball.
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“You’ll actually see a gap between bat and pad on the time where you’ve got the ball passing the outside edge,” Matthew Hayden notes.
“He was really upset about it. I was convinced that that may have been the case and was in favour of KL Rahul.
“But you have a look here closely - his bat and pad are not together at that point in time.
“As the ball passes, it’s after in fact, the ball passes the edge. Does Snicko pick up the sound of the bat hitting the pad? We’re assuming it is actually the outside edge of the bat but that may not be the case.”
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Tim Lane asks Channel 7 umpiring expert Simon Taufel if officials have discretion when the evidence strongly suggests there has been an edge.
“Umpires are looking for conclusive evidence. There were a few gremlins at the start of that review, being the first Test, where TV umpire Richard Illingworth didn’t get some camera angles he was asking for,” former ICC umpire Taufel said.
“Richard Illingworth had a tough job there, but this camera angle (the slow-motion replay) is probably the best one for me, it shows that the ball does graze the outside edge. In my view the ball does graze the outside edge which has caused the scuff marks, but then the bat goes on to hit the pad.
“I think from a batter’s perspective, they are looking to see that evidence on the big screens as the decision is made. I think that’s exactly why KL Rahul has a question mark on his mind and Richard Kettleborough as well. I imagine there will be an interesting discussion in the umpires room in the lunch break.”
Hayden adds: “Simon does Snicko recognise or differentiate between the sound that is bat and sound that would likely be bat on pad? That is the question we are trying to resolve. It questions the technology itself. Because there could well have been two noises. In fact, there should have been two noises because had he outside edged it, that would have been the first noise. Then the second noise would have come from bat on pad.”
Taufel says: “It is a good question to ask. That is why the third umpire really needs that video evidence to have the pictures marry up to the audio technology as well. We saw with that side on shot, there was a spike in snicko with the bat away from the pad. In other words, the bottom of the bat hadn’t reached the pad. Therefore, rolling that through in its natural caution you may have seen that second spike come through hadn’t been rolled all the way through.”
