RECENT discussion about the benefits to spin bowlers of the Decision Review System, proving many more deliveries would have hit the stumps than the naked eye had hitherto been trusted to judge, has provoked sage nodding from generations of retired twirlymen.
Time was when a batsman could counter the LBW threat of the ball turning into them from outside off stump with impunity, planting their front pad in the way and placing the bat somewhere in the vicinity, thus pretending that they were playing a shot when they actually had no intention of trying to hit the ball at all.
Umpires were not i...
