According to Steve Waugh in his 2001 tour diary, gthe third umpire at that stage could only rule on whether or not the catch had been taken cleanly. They could not rule on bump balls off the bat. Waugh's exact quote was "no idea why it was referred as it was obviously a clean catch. The doubt was...
Maybe if Chappell had known McEchnie had a strike rate of 37, he wouldn't have been as worried about the possibility of the 6. As for rules are rules, that's a crock. The rule was not on the books because of an administrative oversight that was quickly corrected. It was and remains, morally repre...
According to Steve Waugh in his 2001 tour diary, gthe third umpire at that stage could only rule on whether or not the catch had been taken cleanly. They could not rule on bump balls off the bat. Waugh's exact quote was "no idea why it was referred as it was obviously a clean catch. The doubt was...