Michael Atherton

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293 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 26 Jun

Michael Atherton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Sky Sports Cricket Podcast · The Ashes Daily: England's Ashes hopes hanging by a thread after Australia's bowlers deliver masterclass. · 18 Dec 2025 podcast

Now, that was... It looked like it was probably bump ball.

It didn't carry.

It didn't look like it carried.

But the whole... I think Stark or someone you could hear on Stunt Mike say the system is broken, the system is rubbish.

And he's right, because once you lose faith in the system...

then the crowd, viewers, third umpire doesn't know.

I said to you last night, once you lose faith in technology, like VAR in football, once that goes, everyone is questioning everything.

And you could see that with the next Jamie Smith one, where again, he's played a pool shot and no one knows if it's sink, not sink, and the reaction of like Jamie Smith and Ben Stokes themselves.

I think they need to change because I do think players, fans, viewers have lost faith in the system.

Now, whether they can use Ultra Edge, which is a Hawkeye tool, whether Hotspot can be reintroduced because that clears things up.

It's quite expensive.

But it's also very expensive.

But I think they've lost faith in the present system.

By the way, this is not us whinging.

I think across the board, I think Australia has suffered.

England has suffered.

I think viewers have suffered.

So a difficult day.

What hope for England?

And a couple grip there for Lyon, as in a few just dusted.

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