Australian captain Tim Paine has praised Ben Stokes for “playing out of his skin” and lamented his issues with the DRS following a dramatic Day 4 at Headingley.
Stokes produced one of the great Ashes innings to get his side home in remarkable circumstances, smashing an unbeaten 135, including 74 runs out of 76 for the 10th wicket partnership.
The Aussies had plenty of chances to win the match and retain the Ashes, including a missed run out in which Nathan Lyon fumbled from the throw.
However the mistake Paine will regret most was his wasted review on a Pat Cummins delivery for LBW, which pitched well outside leg.
It left the Australians with no way of challenging umpire Joel Wilson’s not out call to an LBW appeal from Lyon, which replays showed would have been overturned, and would have sealed a one-run win.
TheGeneral
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Read Stokes comments in the paper today, saying DRS got it wrong (probably a biased comment). If you watch i t in slow motion and as he said the ball flicked his right pad before straightening and hitting the left in front. He said the ball was not spinning and would probably have missed leg stump.
TheGeneral
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You really hate Tim Paine. Give me one example of catches that have gone past him. He has dropped as far as I can recall one catch in the second innings at Lords.
TheGeneral
Roar Rookie
Very good points. But his critics will still moan.
Akkara
Roar Rookie
Tim has such a mature attitude towards the game. Quite a change from the usual captains we encounter. Besides Cummings thinking the ball was pitching in line and Tim knowing it did not hit the bat; one of the reason for using the review, although he does not mention it, is that there were less than 10 runs to be scored, and it was unlikely that the review would come in use. Similar to the batting side using it for the 10th wicket, just in case of a no ball. However in this case another opportunity did occur. The LBW call was a hard decision to give out because Lyons was bowling from wide around the wicket, so when the ball pitches on the leg stump it has to spin significantly to hit the stumps. When played on the front foot, there is little time to determine the deviation.
U
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Step aside Timmy. We can’t afford any more poor captaincy mistakes, lack of runs from our keeper and a wickie who watches potential catches go past him time and time again
Jeff
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Well, you can "control" umpiring decisions to some extent. That is why you have two reviews per innings each.
Tony Mitchell
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plus England had one review left. Call it out (which it obviously was. even the English commentators agreed it was plumb) and let England ask the third umpire. unnecessarily incompetent umpiring. what a farce.
Pete1
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Very gracious and honest from Tim and I can understand the wrong call in the heat of the moment too. I wonder how many armchair critics would have made the same call under that pressure? I'm a little less inclined to excuse the umpire's LBW call though. I would love to hear his reasoning behind why he believed it was going to miss the stumps? I don't think anyone else watching that delivery had the same thought. The ball just looked like hitting middle and leg somewhere up the length of the stumps yet the umpire shook his head so vigorously you could only wonder whether he was adjudicating an LBW appeal on a wide delivery?? He was so emphatic on an absolutely plumb LBW ball. Why?