Snicko - A long way from certainty

[karachiite]

Seeing snicko being used real-time for the first time. I feel the application and interpretation of the data has been very variable. Umar Akmal for example was given out harshly in my opinion. I certainly don't understand the acoustics of ball passing the bat very close and what kind of trace that would create. Similarly I'd expect the acoustics of ball hitting willow or pad to be different.

I'm not sure how much data we have about this and how much training the umpires have had but I certainly think we require empirical parameters of what should be considered out or not.

 

[Yossarian]

Vibration/acoustic sensors implanted inside the bats. That should do the trick.

 

[TNA]

Nothing is perfect.

Technology is a man-made invention.

However as it stands, technology is far better tool than no tool at all. It assists superbly in decision making that no human can be able to make so easily and quickly on direct observation.

 

[Electron]

Snicko+Hotspot was perfect.

 

[dinakar]

I don't think umpires have been instructed to make decision completely on snicko data. It is just one of the tool.

 

[Itachi]

hotspot is a must.

 

[Anchorman]

Did anyone check how snicko went berserk when Jadeja's bat was miles away from the ball?

 

[karachiite]

Nothing is perfect.

Technology is a man-made invention.

However as it stands, technology is far better tool than no tool at all. It assists superbly in decision making that no human can be able to make so easily and quickly on direct observation.

I agree and I'm a big fan for DRS but we need consistency in the way technology is being used. You can't have 2 umpires making 2 decisions based on the same data.

 

[TNA]

I agree and I'm a big fan for DRS but we need consistency in the way technology is being used. You can't have 2 umpires making 2 decisions based on the same data.

The decision as it stands from the on-field umpire to be honest takes much higher precedence over the third umpire when you have no conclusive data about the dismissal. The only rule to the exception would be the lbw decisions. Those " on field umpire call" on LBW's really makes no sense sometimes.

 

[Abdullah719]

Shadow shows gap between bat/ball, but there's a spike on Snicko

 

[Danyaalr01]

That's what I was saying. How can a front on angle from more than 20 metrest away be conclusive evidence. This has to be the worst year of umpiring in the last decade. It was likely to be his foot skidding across the ground because the spike lasted a while.

The umpires should be paying attection to every detail. Warner's reaction said it all, he was so shocked that the umpire thought that was enough evidence that he just didn't have anything to say.

 

[aloo paratha]

Cricket needs to have high speed cameras. How do we expect accurate decisions when the ball moves almost a foot in every frame.

 

[HitWicket]

Shadow shows gap between bat/ball, but there's a spike on Snicko

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The spike's on the right of the snicko graph indicating it occurs in the time period after this visual frame. In the next frame when the ball has passed the bat there's a spike on the left of the graph as would be expected as well.

 

[sweep_shot]

I don't expect it to be 100% perfect but it should eliminate howlers. I think it is an essential tool that can be improved further.