{"id":59268,"date":"2021-04-17T06:51:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T06:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=59268"},"modified":"2021-04-17T11:57:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T11:57:44","slug":"umpires-decision-bamboozles-fuming-greats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=59268","title":{"rendered":"Umpires' decision 'bamboozles' fuming greats"},"content":{"rendered":"

There's every chance that Queensland will wrap up victory by an innings on the last day of their Sheffield Shield final<\/a> clash with NSW tomorrow.<\/p>\n

But even in that case, the history books wouldn't necessarily give a genuine insight into the dominance of the Bulls' performance.<\/p>\n

That's because the Queensland attack, led by pacemen Xavier Bartlett (3-31) and Brendan Doggett (2-26), may have iced the masterclass inside three days if the umpires hadn't called stumps early due to their reading on the light.<\/p>\n

MATCH CENTRE:<\/strong> Sheffield Shield final<\/a><\/p>\n

When the umpires called stumps at 4:28pm (AEST), sighting a lack of light, NSW were 5-140 and trailing by 106.<\/p>\n

When Sean Abbott (20) and Baxter Holt (10) walk out to bat at 8:54am at the beginning of day four, the reeling Blues will resume their pursuit of making Queensland bat again.<\/p>\n

The fact that Queensland accumulated 1.0 bonus points to NSW's zero in the first innings of the match means there's no point in the Blues batting for a draw tomorrow. A stalemate would result in Queensland being handed the title, as per the system introduced to the Sheffield Shield final in the 2018-19 summer.<\/p>\n

But regardless, former Australia all-rounder Andrew Symonds took aim at cricket's stance on light as the umpires called day-three stumps early in the Allan Border Field decider.<\/p>\n

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"This is what bamboozles me," Symonds said on Fox Cricket's coverage.<\/p>\n

"Why not talk to both captains and ask if they are happy to bowl a spinner from the other end to have two spinners? Give them the option."<\/p>\n

Former Australia skipper Allan Border was also frustrated that play had finished early.<\/p>\n

"It doesn't feel too dark to not be playing," Border said.<\/p>\n

"I just don't get it.<\/p>\n

"If NSW had 10 runs to get in this situation, do you think we'd be going off? No way."<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Test first drop Marnus Labuschagne's magnificent innings of 192 came to an end when he edged an Abbott delivery to Trent Copeland at gully.<\/p>\n

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There's every chance that Queensland will wrap up victory by an innings on the last day of their Sheffield Shield final clash with NSW tomorrow. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59270,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59268\/revisions\/59270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}