If you are fan of a particular team and
bad umpiring decision goes in favour of
your team then you might not be frustrated
but if you are big fan of cricket then
you will not bear any wrong decision to
hamper the cricket.
There have been many wrong decision in cricket
History but in earlier time when there was
no management for replays then fans had to trust
Umpire.Now we have all the armour to show that
whether umpire gave right decision or not rather
umpires undergoes more pressure while giving any
decisions.
It was a Border-Gavaskar Test series last year
in the month of January between Australia and India
in which Umpiring was at it's lowest level.
Mark Benson and Steave Buckner were umpire for this
series.There was total 9 wrong decision in the second
test.Unfortunately all 9 were against India i.e.in the
favour of Australia.Steave Bucknor was already famous
for giving wrong decision against Sachin Tendulkar.
After this match Indian cricketer asked to
change Umpire for the rest of matches.
Indian media made villain to Steave Bucknor and Mark
Benson.Indian Newspapers were quoting headlines like
'They were 14 and we were 11'.These both umpires did
not increased prestige of umpiring anymore.Indian
Cricketer were more frustrated when Mark Benson
was so tired of umpiring and could not even able
to speak on microphone to ask third umpire for
correct decision and thought it to be logical to
ask Ponting for a catch of Sourav Ganguly and
unfortunately Third Umpire i.e.Ponting declared him out:).
The bad umpiring has come in light again in the
current Ashes 2009 series.All Cricket lovers are
showing there frustration by some means.What can be
done to ensure that a decision is flawless.Should
an umpire be directly connected to third umpire for
all doubting catches and run outs etc.Then what Umpire
will do on ground,just declaring what Third Umpire
says rather decision can be displayed on Decision
Board.Otherwise they will be just for noting down
if anyone breaks code of conduct and submitting it
to match referee.Should ICC use umpires with more
experience?.This is silly question because we have
example of Steave Bucknor.Let us hope that ICC learns
lesson from this events and tries to make cricket
better by improving it's Umpiring Field.
5 comments:
Yes, agreed, your point is right. We can make use of the technology more to help the umpires. But for technology also there are limitations. For example the 'Hawk eye' is a good tool to review LBWs. But we cannot say that it will be 100% correct because Hawk eye will just measure the trajectory of the ball after it is released from the bowler's hand. It will not consider the pitch condition, whether it has got bounce, whether it is low....
I remember reading that the broadcasting companies themselves were unsure of their technology.
Baiju,
Yes..there are some loopholes in every technology but it tends to perfect.
Ottayan,
Let it be but umpire's decisions are not sharp than what technology gives.
If bad umpiring ruins cricket then what do we call bad umpiring and faulty technology in the name of DRS? England vs India series 2011 will not only be known as the series where India lost its no 1 ranking but a black mark in DRS...
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