: 2nd Ashes Test: Edgbaston, 4-8 August: Day Three.

[greg]

Originally Posted by John

Nobody gets bad decisions of coures other than England.

Everybody gets bad decisions now and then.It just happens that most of the bad decisions England get are made by Koertzen who is an awful umpire in my opinion.That is why i am wound up as the incompetent fool has done it again.

[Alison]

I was not impressed with those decisions.

[Aussie-Yank]

Jones out with a flyer from Lee - I wonder if Harmison is smiling now seeing the ball do that?

[Cricket Girl]

The Langer decision was not in the same league as Pietersen's. He was playing close to the stumps to a ball that was swinging in. Hawkeye showed it was out. Can't have too many complaints about that, and he didn't have too many complaints about it. Pietersen's decision on the other hand was atrocious. Even if it had hit the glove it shouldn't have been given out because there were so many noises.

[John]

I will come back to this discussion at a less intense moment. I am against all bad decisions.

[Alison]

Originally Posted by John

Nobody gets bad decisions of coures other than England. Or other sides get them but when it doesn't matter in the game.

Of course other sides get bad decisions, and their fans have every right to get as annoyed as we are getting when those decisions happen!

[Aussie-Yank]

You can complain about the bad decsions all you like, the point is they happen and on the scoreboard its recorded as out. There are more times this test match and last one where players where given out when not and players who should have been given out where not. In all the English players have been received the most favourable judgement from the umpires than Australia. And Pieterson has had more 50-50 calls go in his favour than anyone.

[Alison]

Originally Posted by Aussie-Yank

You can complain about the bad decsions all you like, the point is they happen and on the scoreboard its recorded as out.

Yes they happen, but the point is that they shouldn't happen! Particularly people should not be given out caught when they don't hit the ball.

Also, and I'm almost certainly being biased here, but I didn't think they should even have appealed for the Pietersen decision - it didn't look to have gone anywhere near either bat or glove.

[SeanTheSpitfire]

Also, and I'm almost certainly being biased here, but I didn't think they should even have appealed for the Pietersen decision - it didn't look to have gone anywhere near either bat or glove.

While i agree with you that the pietersen decision was awful
i don't think you can blame the Aussies for appealing, as im 99.9% sure that England would have done the same thing if it was say Gilchrist batting

Don't forget Pietersen is a huge player for us and the Aussies just wanted him out before he could cause any damage to them, so .. as they say in the fosters advert 'You Can't blame 'em'

[King Aragorn]

What a comeback from Australia. Some wonderful bowling by both Lee and Warne and Australia have clawed their way back into the game after being down and out at the end of Day 2. But whatever target they are set (something around 250, probably), it won't be easy to bat as the conditions are helpful for both the quicks and spinners. On the other hand, Australia will most probably have loads of time to reach the target.

Ian Bell was unfortunate to be given out but I thought that the snickometer showed that KP was indeed out.