Michael Atherton
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And once he's made the speech he did before the game where he wants fight and character and dog,
He certainly showed that in abundance.
Complete confidence lost in the system.
I think the players have lost confidence.
There was one moment with the Jamie Smith, the first Jamie Smith one,
where he clearly gloved it right in front of his eyes.
And the third umpire was just checking if Kawaja had caught it.
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.