The other thing I would have liked to have seen today was the by all accounts terrible decision of the third umpire when Watson played a clear catch back to the bowler. I saw one quick replay on the news and it was pretty obvious to me that it was out. I’m told that doubt only came to exist as the technology blew the image of the ball hitting the bat up and up and up until the distortion was such that it was perhaps possible that the ball was touching the ground after the it had left the bat. The difference between umpires and technology is that technology can be stupid. An umpire is never stupid, sometimes he makes a poor decision, just as the batsmen sometimes plays a poor shot, or the bowler sends down a pie. The umpire’s failing is only an athlete’s lapse. Technology’s failing is that it is able to be moronically stupid. It is so slow of wit. As Kerry O’Keefe was wisely saying in the abc box, give me a pair of black slacks and a white shirt and I’ll save us all a lot of time.