Snickometer technology questioned by England bowling coach

Evening Standard

England bowling coach David Saker speaks to the media during a press conference following the end of day one of the third Ashes Test against Australia at the Adelaide Oval.England will consider raising concerns over the accuracy of the ‘Snickometer’ technology after Australia’s Alex Carey admitted he got lucky on his way to a crucial century in Adelaide.

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00:00Can you tell us about this one, Alex has just been in and said that he maybe gave her a little feather on that.

00:07DRS, what's the sort of view in the England room?

00:10Well, the boys were pretty confident he hit it.

00:13I think the calibration of the snick goes out quite a bit, and that's been probably the case for the series.

00:19There's been some things that don't really measure up.

00:22And at that stage, I can't remember the exact score, but it was a pretty important decision.

00:29So, yeah, those things hurt, but just get through it.

00:34But you'd think that this day and age, you'd hope the technology's good enough to pick things up like that.

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