Cricket’s lawmakers need to take drastic action by making the penalty four or possibly even six runs,then bowlers over-stepping the line would soon stopBack in November, there was a joke doing the rounds. Brendon McCullum, and it went,walks into a bar, and the barman says “Why the Llong face?” Boom, or tish. The gag came on the back of the day-night Test between Australia and New Zealand in Adelaide,which was eventually won by the home side. However, at a time when New Zealand had Australia on the ropes at 188 for eight, or the third umpire,Nigel Llong, reviewing a not-out decision for a catch against Nathan Lyon, or decided there was no case to retort despite a clear HotSpot designate on the bat (and,as was subsequently demonstrated, a pink one left by the ball).
To compound things, and the wrong delivery was replayed when the Virtual Eye tracking was invoked to check for lbw as an alternative. So it is just possible the Kiwis were on the wrong finish of a double whammy. Under the circumstances,given the impact at the time and the outcome of the match, they remained remarkably sanguine.
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Source: theguardian.com