Cricket things that annoy you

[Gethelred]

The time it takes to review some decisions on DRS. We are talking at times 3 minutes or even up to 4 minutes to make a decision. Get on with the game I say and make a decision as quick as possible. Its no wonder we are behind in overs for a majority of games.

That one'd be easy to fix: just remove LBW reviews from the DRS.

Done.

 

[big_e]

That one'd be easy to fix: just remove LBW reviews from the DRS.

Done.

Jesus Christ, DRS are needed for LBWs more than anything else.

 

[Gethelred]

Jesus Christ, DRS are needed for LBWs more than anything else.

LBW is the thing holding it up, and it isn't as though the DRS has cured all instances of bad LBW shouts.

Has it gotten them more accurate? Honestly, I think it'd be 50/50. Umpires are more likely to give them out, but Hawkeye is not nearly as reliable as the graphics presented would have it. If they showed the entire field of possibility - where the ball could go from point of impact - it'd show just how flimsy a pretext it is.

Then, you've got blokes who despite their height get LBW calls going their way - Stuart Broad - where others do not - Josh Hazlewood - in patterns that correspond to nations; WI, Australia, SA don't get the LBW's that England, NZ and India do, despite the bowlers being ostensibly the same height between these nations. And it's not to do with the pitch; these things are true regardless of where these teams play.

No, LBW is still just as fraught a thing as it always has been, and DRS has only made it worse by subjecting us to 5 minutes before going with the umpire's dodgy call anyway.

 

[PhatBoy]

That one'd be easy to fix: just remove LBW reviews from the DRS.

Done.

Or Hawkeye, at least.

I don’t mind it for where the ball pitches or for inside edges but the rest is so incredibly subjective as to be a joke