Quote Originally Posted by MacAdder View Post
Farcical really when you think of all the technology that has been brought into cricket with the focus on getting decisions right.
There is no excuse for such an error and the umpire should have gone upstairs straight away. They even go upstairs for things like run out appeals blatantly obvious to the naked eye that the batsmen have made their ground.

Even though I am glad that England won, I would not be happy at all if I was a New Zealander.
Would such a decision have been allowed had it been Australia the opposition and not "little" New Zealand?
The catch which won England that classic test at Edgbaston by two runs back in 2005 over Australia shouldn't have been allowed, but with all that was going on you would have needed to be an exceptional umpire to have noticed why.

I'm not going to take out an Independent subscription just to read that article, what does the relevant rule say about what happened yesterday?