Join now and get your first month for just $1 ><\/a><\/p>\nFormer Thunder captain Callum Ferguson added: \u201cI\u2019m absolutely blown away. It\u2019s actually embarrassing for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Both teams were each awarded a point following the drawn contest, which left the Thunder sitting at seventh on the WBBL standings with three games to play.<\/p>\n
Umpires Eloise Sheridan and Stephen Dionysius. Photo by Sarah Reed\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Speaking on WBBL commentary on Sunday afternoon, Thunder General Manager Trent Copeland pointed out the Sydney-based club was now at risk of missing the finals, with the umpire\u2019s decision also impacting the team\u2019s net run rate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was viewing it from home and watching on,\u201d Copeland recalled.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirstly I was amazed the game even started … it was a great effort to get the game up.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone at that last moment … was just shocked. Everyone was a bit dumbfounded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was sitting at home thinking to myself, \u2018How have we got to here? Now that we\u2019ve gotten to here, how is this the point that we\u2019re going off?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cCertainly from my point of view it was a disappointment. Maybe the game should have been called off an over earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cDecisions were made to progress the game. It was deemed safe at that point (in the second over), and then we\u2019ve progressed to a spinner in Amanda-Jade Wellington, and the ball potentially not being changed if it was a slippery ball. Just a few of those coping mechanisms with deteriorating conditions that weren\u2019t addressed before an abandonment.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd obviously the game could have been won the next ball, that was the real shame of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cIt\u2019s got nothing to do with respecting an umpire\u2019s decision in isolation. This is professional sport, it could affect finals.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt also wipes the net run rate equation from the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking to Channel 7 on Sunday afternoon, Executive General Manager of Big Bash Leagues Alistair Dobson revealed that post-game review found the umpires should have forced players off the field in the second over when the rain was at its heaviest. However, having decided to continue at that point, the umpires should have seen the game through to its inevitable conclusion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe safety of our players is always paramount,\u201d Dobson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cUmpires are always advised to come off a ball early rather than a ball late, if that makes sense.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn review, having conducted their post-game review … they probably should have come off earlier in the game when Darcie Brown was bowling the (second) over and the weather got pretty heavy.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn reflection, that was the moment they probably should have come off.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt that point, having committed to the game, the umpires have reviewed it and upon reflection should have seen the game out from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
He elaborated: \u201cIt was a challenging situation. Managing weather in a cricket game is not a black and white scenario, there\u2019s a lot of subjectivity and analysis that the umpires have to do on the run.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a tough, high-pressure situation on Friday night.They did a great job to get the game started<\/p>\n
\u201dBut on review, we probably should have got the game finished.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dobson added that CA had not considered awarding the Thunder an additional point, but stopped short of ruling out the possibility of that happening.<\/p>\n
The Thunder, who may now need to win each of their remaining three matches to qualify for the knockouts, will next face crosstown rivals the Sydney Sixers at North Sydney Oval on Sunday at 3.40pm AEDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket Australia\u2019s Big Bash boss has admitted the umpires made two errors during Friday\u2019s rain-affected WBBL contest between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-317838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}