Digital technology is becoming more and more influential in the execution of crucial decisions in football, cricket and tennis. But is that always a good thing? Harry Collins's new book 'Bad Call' answers the appeal. WHEN WE THINK about the woefully deteriorating over rate in Test Match cricket, we tend to take it as axiomatic that it is somehow the players' fault. They're lazy, negative and cheating in such a way as to suck the joy out of the wonderful experience that is watching cricket played at its highest level. While some of the above might be true, the real reason for the game grinding to a halt is that we are now using too much decision-assisting technology, applying it wrongly and in the case of obviously bad referrals, abusing it cynically in order to waste time.
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