whiteninness
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- Dec 13, 2003
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Could be mistaken but I didn't hear any names, have the creators been slacking off with commentary names?
Thanks for the explanation @whiteninness, and the diagrams, diagrams are great! haha. All this time and I had the rule all wrong..
No problem!
I think that there was a change made, perhaps 10-15 years ago. The umpires used to be told to guess the trajectory, including further swing and spin. This rule was designed to make things easier for the umpires. It is similar to the "hands in the back" rule in AFL. You no-longer have to judge the amount of force exerted by a player into the back of another, in order to determine a "push in the back", but instead just look for hands.
Hawk eye does include this rule (it was changed before hawk eye).
What I saw in the video though was different, where the ball seemed to deviate in the up-down direction, not the left-right direction. I'd need another look though.