{"id":357345,"date":"2025-12-19T02:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357345\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T02:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:30:09","slug":"australian-cricketers-association-calls-for-snicko-overhaul-following-adelaide-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357345\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Cricketers Association calls for Snicko overhaul following Adelaide blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Careers are at risk because of failing Snicko technology, Australian cricket’s players’ union says.<\/p>\n

The Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) is demanding an urgent review into the technology, which has caused controversy in the Ashes.<\/p>\n

ACA chief executive Paul Marsh says it is “nonsensical” that decision review technology rests with host broadcasters instead of cricket governing bodies.<\/p>\n

DRS shambles in Adelaide<\/a><\/p>\n

A series of strange decisions by umpires further erodes any trust in the DRS process as day two at the Adelaide Oval devolves into “shambles” and “chaos”.<\/p>\n

“The players are frustrated,” Marsh said on Friday.<\/p>\n

“Careers are on the line with this sort of stuff.<\/p>\n

“If you go back to why it was brought in, it was to get the decisions right.<\/p>\n

“And clearly we have had some issues in this match and other matches where it’s not right so it’s something that should be looked at urgently.”<\/p>\n

The Snicko technology \u2014 provided and operated by BBG Sports \u2014 being used in the Ashes is deployed and paid for by host broadcaster Fox Sports.<\/p>\n

The broadcaster is using Snicko in Australia rather than the more accurate and more expensive UltraEdge technology, pioneered by Hawk-Eye Innovations and owned by Sony that is used everywhere in the world except Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Marsh said the sport’s global body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), or home-nation boards should pay for the technology.<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t actually make any sense that it’s on the broadcasters to carry the cost of this,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Their interests aren’t aligned, they’re different, they’re about producing the broadcast for people watching.<\/p>\n

“The game is the one that should be making sure that the right technology is making the right decisions.<\/p>\n

“It’s nonsensical that it doesn’t sit with the ICC or the home boards.”<\/p>\n

Cricket Australia has distanced the organisation from the ongoing furore, leaving it as a matter for host broadcasters.<\/p>\n

A Fox Sports spokesman declined to comment on Friday.<\/p>\n

“People are seeing there is an issue here that needs to be looked at,” Marsh said.<\/p>\n

“We have got other parts of the world that are doing it differently and better so it’s not like there’s not a model out there to have a look at.”<\/p>\n

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England and Australian camps have become increasingly agitated at Snicko during the third Ashes Test in Adelaide.<\/p>\n

There have been several Snicko flashpoints, including Australia’s Alex Carey surviving a caught-behind appeal on day one when replays showed a spike on Snicko before the ball even reached his bat.<\/p>\n

Carey admitted he edged the ball and BBG Sports conceded human error was behind the Snicko mistake.<\/p>\n

Two more Snicko incidents when England’s Jamie Smith was batting on Thursday enraged both teams.<\/p>\n

“Snicko needs to be sacked,” Australian paceman Mitchell Starc was heard saying on stump microphones on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“That’s the worst technology there is.”<\/p>\n

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