Re: Error prone LBW decisions - How come we continue to live with it ?
^The school of thought that - since wrong decisions go against both sides so it evens the playing field - is erroneous and needs to be nipped in the bud.
In a given match, more often than not its one side which pays more than the other side in terms of wrong decisions(I am only talking LBWs here). I am not saying that Ponting can use this as an excuse. Just that LBWs, by design, bring a "destiny factor" or the "hand of God factor" to the game of cricket.
In soccer, you have once-in-a-while situation where Maradona will hand punch the ball into the goal without the referee noticing(yes...Hand of God and all), but in Cricket Umpiring errors in making LBW decisions are a norm and seem to occur in every single match. It almost seems like the cricketing world has decided to live with it - since nothing can be done about it.