Cricket Australia boss Todd Greenberg on Thursday called an error in the Snicko technology being used during the Ashes "not good enough" as England had a review reinstated over the row.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The operators of the technology admitted that a fault on day one of the third Test in Adelaide had denied the tourists' Alex Carey's wicket.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Carey slammed 106 in Australia's first innings, but had a lucky escape on 72.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
England called for a review after their appeal for caught behind off Josh Tongue's pace bowling was turned down by the umpire Ahsan Raza<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The stump microphones picked up a clear sound, but the replay showed the noise before the ball passed Carey's bat and TV umpire Chris Gaffaney upheld the on-field decision.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Carey suggested afterwards that he hit the ball and BBG Sports, the company that owns Snicko, used to help match officials review decisions made by on-field umpires, accepted responsibility for the mistake.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"It certainly caused me some heartburn because the whole idea of technology is to take away the clanger or the howler," Greenberg said on SEN radio.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"From what I can understand having dug into it last night and this morning is human error.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"There's two human errors there -- one is the actual decision from the umpire, and then there's supposed to be a failsafe with the technology and it didn't happen.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"In my view it's not good enough," he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"We're asking a lot of questions of the provider through the broadcasters and we're hoping to get some answers so we can be assured it won't happen again."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The furore saw match referee Jeff Crowe reinstate a review decision for England, meaning they started day two with two reviews left, rather than one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Former England captain Mike Atherton called for calm.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"Forgive me for not getting incandescent about it," he wrote in The London Times.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"If you come from a generation where human error was accepted as part of the game -- and on any Test match day, there would have been so many mistakes made by umpires -— then it is hard to get too worked up.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"Mistakes happen, and probably always will in a system relying, to any degree, on human input, whether in the middle or in the television trucks."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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