Quote:[size=12pt]Much of the familiar, miserable reflection that greeted another grim end for England's one-day cricketers on Monday night centred on the run out of Chris Jordan. Rightly so, but for largely the wrong reason.

Third umpire Simon Fry's reading of whether Jordan's bat was touching the ground might well have paid scant regard to cricket's "benefit of the doubt" clause. Former England captains Michael Vaughan and Ian Botham were among those incensed that, from the available footage, Fry could be absolutely certain the willow was airborne.

Yet surely the greater miscarriage is how the game's laws can allow a batsman who has already reached safe ground to be given out because his bat is no longer touching the turf at the moment the ball strikes the stumps.[/size]