alfie wrote:sussexpob wrote:If I were kohli I'd be demanding an explanation of the Sharma wicket. Makes no sense at all.
Hardly. Clear space between bat and ball - on my TV anyway
And that little "tremor" didn't look like an edge to me...nor , obviously , to the third umpire. Lot of little noises happen around the batsman. I'm satisfied the correct decision was made - and I didn't detect any shock or outrage from the Indian camp over it.
I'd refer anyone who is interested (nobody) to the discussion I had with delta alpha years ago about snicko on the drs mandatory thread, page 18. It's not interesting, but technically explains how sound engineering works.
It's very unlikely, verging on impossible, that a sound be filtered to block out ambient sounds and you get incidental sounds coming through. The bat doesn't hit the pad as the tremor registers, it does so as the ball pass the edge.
If an incidental sounds pass through the filter, to register it is likely to have to have been such a large sound in the same frequency ranges as an edge sound.
I said to delpha alpha years ago, people get confused about sounds and shapes of waves they recognise, but it's totally wrong to do that.
If the ball is next to the bat and a clear sound registers, it doesn't matter how big or if it's the expected shape, you are 99.9 percent sure it's bat on ball.
The shape of the oscillation can and is always manipulated. It's changed by all around it.
He's either hit it, or snicko is compromised. They are literally the only two conclusions.