DRS in focus as review system seals Aussie fate
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July 16, 2013, Tuesday
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PROFLIGATE use of reviews ultimately cost Australia a heart-breaking first test loss and has damaged its chances of regaining the Ashes, the nation's newspapers said yesterday.
England won the first Ashes test by 14 runs at Trent Bridge on Sunday amid controversy over the Decision Review System (DRS) which ended Australia's brave bid to stage a miraculous come-from-behind victory.
Australia's media said its team paid for its poor use of the DRS at critical moments in the tense match.
"Had there been more diligent use of the umpire decision review system Australia would have had a review remaining late on day three when Stuart Broad was inexplicably given not out by umpire Aleem Dar when a thick edge flew from the gloves of Brad Haddin to Michael Clarke at slip," The Sydney Daily Telegraph's Malcolm Conn said.
"The thick edge that Broad survived is a complete contrast to the finest touch from Haddin's bat which Dar and bowler Jimmy Anderson did not hear but which was awarded to England on review, ending the test in such dramatic fashion.
"The DRS was originally conceived to rid the game of the howler and will remain fundamentally flawed until that is achieved but it is the system both teams must use in this series and Clarke admits Australia must get better at it," he added.
The Melbourne Age's Greg Baum wrote: "The finishing note was both poetic and anti-climactic: an appeal, a not out decision, a referral and an overturning. Australia had blown seven referrals in the match, England just one, and now had one left when it most mattered. So it was that the test match finished not with the last ball, but the Decision Review System's deconstruction of it."
The Australian's Wayne Smith said the Trent Bridge test would be remembered for the angst over the DRS. "This should be a test recalled for the batting heroics of teenage Australian debutant Ashton Agar and the inspired 10-wicket swing bowling of England pace spearhead James Anderson but instead it will be remembered mainly for all the angst caused by the Decision Review System."
England won the first Ashes test by 14 runs at Trent Bridge on Sunday amid controversy over the Decision Review System (DRS) which ended Australia's brave bid to stage a miraculous come-from-behind victory.
Australia's media said its team paid for its poor use of the DRS at critical moments in the tense match.
"Had there been more diligent use of the umpire decision review system Australia would have had a review remaining late on day three when Stuart Broad was inexplicably given not out by umpire Aleem Dar when a thick edge flew from the gloves of Brad Haddin to Michael Clarke at slip," The Sydney Daily Telegraph's Malcolm Conn said.
"The thick edge that Broad survived is a complete contrast to the finest touch from Haddin's bat which Dar and bowler Jimmy Anderson did not hear but which was awarded to England on review, ending the test in such dramatic fashion.
"The DRS was originally conceived to rid the game of the howler and will remain fundamentally flawed until that is achieved but it is the system both teams must use in this series and Clarke admits Australia must get better at it," he added.
The Melbourne Age's Greg Baum wrote: "The finishing note was both poetic and anti-climactic: an appeal, a not out decision, a referral and an overturning. Australia had blown seven referrals in the match, England just one, and now had one left when it most mattered. So it was that the test match finished not with the last ball, but the Decision Review System's deconstruction of it."
The Australian's Wayne Smith said the Trent Bridge test would be remembered for the angst over the DRS. "This should be a test recalled for the batting heroics of teenage Australian debutant Ashton Agar and the inspired 10-wicket swing bowling of England pace spearhead James Anderson but instead it will be remembered mainly for all the angst caused by the Decision Review System."
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