The case for specialist third umpires.

Jarrod, what if I told you that both Ravi Shastri and Sanjay Manjrekar looked at this exact footage while they were doing commentary and praised Joel Wilson for this decision. They actually drew the same conclusion as you did, that of needing a specialist third umpire. Just that they thought that Joel Wilson was the perfect candidate for it.

Then what about this root decision on day 1 Ranchi. There is clear daylight between bat and pad kn right side image

I use music production software everyday for a living so I know of what I speak. Ball hitting bat = sharp vertical visual transient. Ball hitting pad (like your exmpl) = softer, more diffuse transient. This is audio 101.

I might be wrong here but if I think there was a slight deviation from the bat detected also. A video is better evidence than a pic.

Ultra edge along with Hot Spot should help to a large extent

The commentators were praising Joel Wilson 😂😂

Let's talk about how #RodTucker (and possibly #JeffCrowe) seemed to have conspired to give England benefit of the "umpire's call" by not giving any marginal outs in India's favour, but raising the finger everytime England appealed. @BCCI @ImRo45 @imAagarkar.

That frame doesn't actually show the ball hitting the pad. It's further from the pad than the bat. It's probably not the frame Wilson ruled from.

Sure, add specialist 3rd umpires, or give the current umpires more training, but at some point we’re all going to have to accept that there’s going to be a marginal call that goes against our team. The technology isn’t capable of perfection

bt Why do we need specialist 3rd umpires ? Anyone with a decent eye could have picked this up(talking about international umpires), its not that complicated and the umpires are trained for these. its simply incompetency and joel wilson gets most of decisions wrong onfield too