Ashes 2025-26: Controversy as England’s Jamie Smith is given out on review in Perth

Perth Stadium was filled with English boos as Smith left the field.

The relevant section of the International Cricket Council’s playing conditions, which implement the structures of the Test cricket review system, is as follows:

“If, despite the technology available, the third umpire cannot decide with a high degree of confidence whether the original on-field decision should be changed, then he will declare that replays are ‘inconclusive’ and the on-field decision will stand. The third umpire will not give answers expressing probability or probabilities.”

Sharfuddoula clearly thinks otherwise.

It was explained to BBC Sport that the technology used in Australia has a two-frame gap between the images and the sound wave.

Speaking on 7 Cricket, former international umpire Simon Taufel said: “Strict proof protocols with RTS [Real Time Snickometer] – if you get an increase of up to one square off the bat, it’s a given. And in this particular case, that’s exactly what happened there.

“Unfortunately he [Sharfuddoula] He didn’t want to pull the trigger as quickly as he perhaps could or should have.

“The guys in the truck were doing everything they could to point it out, slow it down and shake and roll the frame.

“The right decision was made for me. A sudden RTS after one square past the bat, the batsman has to go.”

Vaughan said: “Jamie Smith was walking away when he saw this.

“His reaction was not that of someone disgusted by this decision.

“He is a quiet man, but he had little distaste for the couple in England.”