The Ashes, page-363

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    Hi Tarvold,

    This decision has now opened up the reviewing of every single catch that will be taken in this series, and every other series to come.
    This decision could have easily been avoided by going back to the old way of giving the benefit of doubt to batters when it comes to close catches, instead of going to slow mo replays that really cant decide a fair catch either way.
    Slips catches are hard at the best of times and anyone who has played, will know that sometimes you dont know if you have caught the ball fairly or not, and as someone who has fielded in slips, I would not have a problem with a batter being given not out if the umpire told me that it was too close to call.
    But this decision, is plainly wrong. If they are going to start disallowing catches like that then the game is heading down the same pathway Rugby Union took in making rubbish rules that destroyed the game as a spectacle.
    Any fair minded lover of cricket no matter who you support would have no problem with that being given out, and you would not have heard a peep from anyone if that decision had not been taken off the onfield umpires and overturned by overzealous officialdom.

    Lets let the on field umpires do their job.

 
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