DRS emerges as another front in our COVID border wars | danbrettig
A little less than a decade ago, a Test match between Australia and the West Indies at Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad was delayed for 20 minutes in bright sunshine because a power outage meant that it could not be broadcast.
Ever since the 2013-14 Ashes series, Real-time Snicko - or RTS - has been part of the suite of technical aids available to the umpires to decide whether a noise has come from bat, pad or elsewhere. And as much as players, officials, spectators and television viewers have become used to playing Ashes cricket with no technical stone unturned, these additions to broadcasts and umpiring decisions do not come easy. Especially when Australia’s state governments are exerting their sovereignty to degrees not seen since federation.
So when issues arose in the syncing between the pictures and the audio from the stump microphones - the two components used to build the RTS images - there was no option to seek help from outside this tight bubble. RTS should be back in time for the second Test in Adelaide.
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