Tim Paine's frustrations with cricket's review system appear to have hit fever pitch after Australia were denied a wicket from a ball that looked to have hit Mitchell Santner's glove.
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Already "disappointed" and "angry" at what he believed were errors in the ball-tracking technology on day two, Paine remonstrated with umpires on Saturday over a not-out call for caught.
Santner was originally given not out on field when a Mitchell Starc bouncer lobbed into the hands of Travis Head at leg gully.
Third-umpire Aleem Dar upheld the on-field call and denied the Aussies, just as a zoomed-in replay showed the ball flicking the glove strap and the sweatband moving.
An animated Paine then argued the point with on-field umpire Marais Erasmus, pointing at his own wicket-keeping gloves to argue where it had hit.
Former captain Ricky Ponting was also adamant Santner should have been given out for a duck, claiming Dar should not be third umpire if he couldn't see that contact.
"We could see clearly the sweat band was definitely moving on the glove ... It's absolutely plain as day," Ponting said in Seven's commentary.
"If he can't get that right, he shouldn't be doing it ... That is a very, very obvious decision to make.
"If you're third umpire, you have to be asking for all of that stuff. You have to have that zoomed in as much as you can to pick up the evidence."
It came after Paine claimed on Friday night he had concerns over ball-tracking technology, after he was out lbw himself on day two.
Centurion Travis Head also appeared extremely lucky to survive a review against him where he looked out, while New Zealander Ross Taylor had similar fortune in his innings.
The decision prompted Paine to joke on-field that Taylor must have known someone in the truck where the technology is produced.
"I've got a few doubts, no doubt about that," Paine told ABC Radio.
"I'm just seeing time and time again, what I see to the naked eye, or watching it on television in real time, and then when it comes up it is sometimes a little bit off the mark."
Paine's main issue with his own dismissal was a belief he'd been hit outside the line of off-stump, with left-armer Neil Wagner coming around the wicket at him.
"I would have liked it to be outside the line," Paine said
"I thought from the length it pitched and a bloke bowling around the wicket, it's pretty difficult for it to hit you in line and hit the stumps.
"I think it pitched about seven metres out and it's still hitting the stumps.
"And then you get one later which the guy (Taylor) is stuck on the crease, he's hit really full and it's going over. So it's disappointing and makes me angry."
Australian Associated Press
