More on that later.
Nigel Llong's decision? It seemed to be due to misplaced and exaggerated deference to Snicko and the on-field umpire. Llong was thrown by Snicko not backing up the suggestion of Hotspot, creating a doubt in his mind, the benefit of which he gave to the on-field umpire/Lyon. It shouldn't have happened: Snicko is more likely to give a false negative due to ambient noise than Hotspot is likely to give a false positive. On top of that, it's not clear that Llong should have even referred to Snicko after the positive reading of Hotspot: the directive of the ICC for the 2013/2014 Ashes tour was that Snicko should only be consulted if Hotspot shows no mark. That was then, I don't know what the directive is now.
As I write someone from the New Zealand team is being ridiculously mild-mannered about the whole thing with Chris Rogers: no wonder their colour was beige.
Sexing the cherry
I find it hard to shake the impression the pink ball has something to do with Jane McGrath, so entrenched are those associations by now. In that respect, Pink Lady might come into its own as a suggested nickname, but otherwise I favour "gum ball", because it doesn't look like a colour that occurs in nature to me, or not on a fruit in any case.
Judi
Is doing well as both school boy and school master. He has a haughty way of raising his head and looking down his nose as a way of asking the question of the bowler when a review is in the offing, and also does a good lip purse.
Lookalike time
My take on Short Leg?
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