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Re: Cricket
Lots of stuff still going on about Broad. Heard Geoff Lawson banging on about how wrong Broad was and how he'd have walked had he edged a catch to 1st slip, but maybe not if it's been a very fine edge to the keeper. Well what's the difference? If we're going to get all moral then they both amount to cheating unless the batsman is genuinely unaware that he's made contact.
Anyway much is being made about this thick edge to 1st slip but what I see on the replay when it's slowed down is that Broad gets a very fine edge which, as the keeper is standing right up, then proceeds, in a split second, to hit the outside of the keeper's left glove and it's that which created the huge diversion we could all see of the ball going to first slip. I can see how, therefore, how the umpire might have thought the ball missed the bat and was deflected to the slips by the wicketkeeper, hence giving it not out. Anyway, it'd be interesting to know what the umpire had to say about this matter to his superiors after the close of play.
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