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Originally Posted by Scott-Wozniak  That was a bad error of judgement from Taufel, he simply got it wrong. What was he thinking? It seemed pretty obvious to me, it pitched inline, it was going on to hit the stumps and it just looked right. If he thought he got an inside edge, he would have been out caught bat and pad, so why wasn't it given? The only thing it could be, is that he thought it was missing the stumps. |
Well, if that's what he thought, then it wasn't a bad decision, even if it was a wrong one. Taufel's still a very good umpire. Of course he would be even better if he had the existing technology available to him, but that's another discussion.
As to the inside edge, I guess it's like a murder trial where the defendant confesses to accidentally killing the victim (ie. manslaughter), but he hasn't been charged with manslaughter and he can't be charged with it after he's been aquitted. If Taufel didn't know how the batsman had been out, but
suspected that he was somehow- well, the fact that he couldn't be sure how is a cause for reasonable doubt. Again, fair enough.