A 2021 video of Nasser Hussain explaining why the Decision Review System needs the umpire call has gone viral after Ben Stokes‘ recent comments suggesting that umpire’s call needs to be done away with.
After England’s record 434-run defeat in the Rajkot Test 2024, Stokes also mentioned Zak Crawley’s LBW decision in the second innings. stated that the referee’s decision should be overturned in the following cases: He will review LBW decisions to create a “level playing field”.
Hussain’s statement to Sky Sports, which is currently doing the rounds on social media, comes after Virat Kohli said umpiring decisions were causing “huge confusion” during England’s 2021 tour of India This, which came out days later, suggests that the referee’s decision is causing “huge confusion”. The game can be done just fine without it, and it’s much easier.
What Virat Kohli said about the umpire’s call in 2021
“You know, I played for a long time before DRS, right? When the umpire made a call, the call stayed whether the batter liked it or not. If the umpire didn’t give an out, it stayed that way, whether it was close or not,” Kohli said ahead of the 2021 ODI series between India and England.
Kohli was seen protesting to the umpire after the LBW call went to England in the second Test of the tour in Chennai
“In my opinion, the umpire’s decisions are currently causing a lot of confusion. If you are bowled, as a batsman, you have no expectation that the ball will be considered bowled beyond 50 per cent of the stumps.” No. So when the ball appears to clip the stumps, the bails will fall.
“As a matter of cricket common sense, I don’t think it should be discussed. If the ball hits the stumps it should be out, but the score is lost whether you like it or not. .And the game has to be very simple. It doesn’t matter if it hits or misses the stumps or how much it hits, because that will cause a lot of confusion.”
How Hussain explained the umpire’s call in response to Kohli
Hussain appeared on Sky earlier this year, using film clips from England’s tour to Sri Lanka, to explain the need for referees to make LBW calls.
Virat Kohli was right about Umpire’s call
And Naseer Hussain has been absolutely spot on the way he pointed out margin of error in DRS Technology. 🫡pic.twitter.com/lkBbCjoIrC– GAUTAM (@indiantweetrian) 1 2024 February 2
Hussain explained: “Virat used to say, ‘If the ball hits the stumps, it hits the stumps’…but in reality, Virat, that ball never hit the stumps.” This is a prediction is. The ball hit the pad. Technology has a lot of room for error and is predicted to have a good chance of getting stuck. It doesn’t actually hit the stumps. That’s the difference, and that’s why we need a margin of error, and that’s why we need referee decisions.
“This is not there to assist the umpire, but to set a margin of error for the technology.” If it wasn’t there and the umpire’s call was “out”…”
Hussain continued to set the collision point for the ball, which hit the stumps on either side of the actual collision. He explained how the margin of error increases the expected range of impact on the stumps “higher and wider”.
“That’s a big goal for your pads. As a captain, when you see something like that, I demand everything from Stuart Broad and check everything. And the umpires say there’s a clipping, We believe we’ll see more two-day testing like we’ve seen recently, so we’re going to do virtually everything we can.”
The number of batters that carry on with a sense of righteous indignation whenever they are given out LBW & ball tracking shows the ball to be only clipping the stumps!! But we want to remove umpires call; OK then🤷🏽♂️ Batters will have to live with the consequences. Let’s go👀.
– Ian Raphael Bishop (@irbishi) 19. February 2024
What Stokes said after the 2024 Rajkot Test
England captain Ben Stokes has called for the abolishment of umpiring following Zac Crawley’s controversial LBW dismissal during the Rajkot Test.
During England’s chase of 556, Crawley was given LBW off Jasprit Bumrah by Kumar Dharmasena. Crawley checked, but Dharmasena’s decision stood, even though the predicted trajectory on the graph showed the ball would have missed the stumps at the last minute, rather than simply clipping.
He subsequently clarified this to referee Geoff Crowe, who admitted there had been an error in the graphics, but the correct call was passed.
“I think you just want some kind of level playing field,” Stokes said. “In any case, the umpires have an incredibly tough job, especially in India, where the ball sometimes doesn’t spin or bounce. My personal opinion is, ‘If the ball hits the stumps, then the ball hits the stumps. hits the stump.”
“To be honest, I think the referee’s decision should be overturned, but I won’t go into too much detail because it sounds like I’m complaining about why we lost.”< /p>
