DRS bites Australia in Ashes after Beaumont catch call

DRS bites Australia in Ashes after Beaumont catch call

Australia have been left to rue a second day of DRS confusion, with England opener Tammy Beaumont surviving being caught in shut earlier than posting an Ashes century.

Beaumont went to stumps not out on 100 on Friday night time, main England’s fightback to 2-218 after Australia’s first-innings 473.

The innings made her solely the second girl in historical past to hit centuries in all three worldwide codecs, after her captain Heather Knight.

But the 32-year-old may simply have been out on 61, when she charged Alana King, hit the ball onto her toe and was caught at brief leg by Phoebe Litchfield.

Australia appealed however have been knocked again by umpire Anna Harris, with out the choice going upstairs to see if the ball had hit the bottom.

Australia additionally had the possibility to assessment however didn’t, with most bump-ball calls often referred by on-field umpires.

“I knew I hit it, I knew it hit my foot, I didn’t know if it hit the floor as well,” Beaumont mentioned.

“Not my decision to make. Not mine to overturn. It’s hard to tell when it’s hit your foot if it has hit the ground at the same time.”

Australia’s allrounder Annabel Sutherland, who struck an unbeaten 137 within the vacationers’ first innings, mentioned the guests had thought of reviewing.

“It was spoken about, we went through our processes and got that one wrong, which happens,” she mentioned.

“You miss a few every now and then.”

It is the second time within the first two days of the Test there was confusion over the DRS, with England taking roughly 20 seconds to assessment a choice on Thursday that prompted Jess Jonassen’s dismissal.

Under ICC guidelines, groups have 15 seconds to launch a assessment as soon as a choice is given not out.

But in that occasion, the countdown didn’t instantly seem on the massive display screen and the assessment was not stopped.

Australia debutant Phoebe Litchfield additionally did not assessment an lbw name when she was given out within the first session of the match for 23, earlier than replays confirmed it was lacking off stump and she or he would have been not out.

Still, there are worrying indicators for Australia.

Their bowlers missed their lengths too typically on Friday afternoon, after additionally being hit for 562 by England A in a warm-up match on a flat Leicester wicket final week.

“I don’t think it’s a concern,” Sutherland mentioned.

“That warm-up game was the perfect preparation for us. The wicket was pretty flat in Leicester and the bowlers toiled away really well.

“We created seven possibilities in the present day and I assumed Kim Garth particularly was unbelievable. She was threatening all day and the spinners on the finish then too.”

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