Fifth Ashes Test. The Oval.
Big appeal for LBW against Wade. Not out. They review.
Woakes is the bowler.
Fair delivery.
Ultra Edge. No edge.
Impact umpire's call. Wicket's missing. Yay!
Review lost.
But it's a bit disputed whether he hit it. Gower & Ponting sound like they think he did.
Ponting says in the stump mic, you can hear Wade telling Dharmasena he "smashed" it.
Gower: "... right decision for the wrong reason..."
Following the controversial Warner decision, this is really creating doubts about the use of Ultra Edge.
Meanwhile, Ponting says Woakes is giving a boundary ball every over.
Woakes is the bowler.
Fair delivery.
Ultra Edge. No edge.
Impact umpire's call. Wicket's missing. Yay!
Review lost.
But it's a bit disputed whether he hit it. Gower & Ponting sound like they think he did.
Ponting says in the stump mic, you can hear Wade telling Dharmasena he "smashed" it.
Gower: "... right decision for the wrong reason..."
Following the controversial Warner decision, this is really creating doubts about the use of Ultra Edge.
Meanwhile, Ponting says Woakes is giving a boundary ball every over.
They talk about Wade and the verbal battles. Ponting says Steve Waugh would go looking for a fight to get himself up. Lara too.
They show video of Smith also saying there was an edge on the Wade appeal.
Suddenly there's a new problem for umpiring standards. Previously, I'd have said the ball tracking is the more uncertain part of decisions than whether there's a snick.
Wade is now 16*. He has a start. He now needs to go on with it.
They show video of Smith also saying there was an edge on the Wade appeal.
Suddenly there's a new problem for umpiring standards. Previously, I'd have said the ball tracking is the more uncertain part of decisions than whether there's a snick.
Wade is now 16*. He has a start. He now needs to go on with it.
Woakes is replaced by Curran.
Woakes has bowled about as badly as Siddle did yesterday.
Curran is not quite doing a Marsh, but he's causing a few problems.
Big appeal for LBW. Out! Wade reviews immediately.
Ultra Edge. No edge.
Wicket umpire's call. It's out.
Gower: "Just good enough. Clipping leg stump..."
Oz 4/118 (36.4).
Back in trouble. Oz has been playing catch-up the whole match.
Woakes has bowled about as badly as Siddle did yesterday.
Curran is not quite doing a Marsh, but he's causing a few problems.
Big appeal for LBW. Out! Wade reviews immediately.
Ultra Edge. No edge.
Wicket umpire's call. It's out.
Gower: "Just good enough. Clipping leg stump..."
Oz 4/118 (36.4).
Back in trouble. Oz has been playing catch-up the whole match.
Curran is getting 1.2 degrees swing today, which is double Archer's.
Holding says he's looking forward to seeing Archer bowl in S. Africa.
Strauss talks about Wanderers... It's just amazing that these English guys brush over the tragedy that this guy is not playing for WI. I wonder what Holding thinks about it.
Meanwhile, Smith reaches 50 with a small 6. He never seems to hit the ball cleanly enough to hit huge 6s, but it made it over the rope on the tiny ground. There wasn't a fielder out there anyway, so it was just a matter of 4 or 6, not of getting out.
Holding says he's looking forward to seeing Archer bowl in S. Africa.
Strauss talks about Wanderers... It's just amazing that these English guys brush over the tragedy that this guy is not playing for WI. I wonder what Holding thinks about it.
Meanwhile, Smith reaches 50 with a small 6. He never seems to hit the ball cleanly enough to hit huge 6s, but it made it over the rope on the tiny ground. There wasn't a fielder out there anyway, so it was just a matter of 4 or 6, not of getting out.
Athers talks about Wade's dismissal.
He thinks Curran tried to swing it out like the other balls, but it was straighter and did not swing. Wade played as if for the swing. His head was falling way to the off side.
That's a technical flaw they spoke about long ago.
This all reminds me of M. Waugh scoffing on social media about Wade's chances of converting from keeper to specialist batsman.
He thinks Curran tried to swing it out like the other balls, but it was straighter and did not swing. Wade played as if for the swing. His head was falling way to the off side.
That's a technical flaw they spoke about long ago.
This all reminds me of M. Waugh scoffing on social media about Wade's chances of converting from keeper to specialist batsman.