Close but not close enough: 5 biggest umpiring blunders of 2013

5. Joe Root, Caught

How can an Ashes series pass without a controversy? In the ongoing test at Perth, an innocuous delivery from Shane Watson beat Joe Root, and Brad Haddin collected the ball. Root was given out on the field by Marais Erasmus, and went up for a review, seeming certain that he didn’t hit it. Again, no deviation, nothing on HotSpot, no real evidence on Real-Time Snicko. But, Root was still given out on the grounds that there wasn’t enough evidence to overturn the on-field call.