i was watching live when dravid was given out wrongly (compensating pak for getting reduced to only 3 bowlers attack) and this thought crossed my mind so i have put it here...
last time we saw umpire got the wicket of sangakara we all unanimously condemned the decision and i saw so many (including myself) asking for the solution of this increasing regularity of errors...
now the question is, whether it should be raised only when umpires gets the big fish (in terms of size of innings purely) or at every such instance irrespective of what stage of innings batsman is at or who the batsman is...
coz it gets more serious if, imagine, happening to playerlike, say, Dinesh Karthik who is clearly struggling for form and one such bad decision can put an end to a promising career...
have your say...
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SP,
Big fish or small fish, if an umpire makes an error he should play a game of Russian roulette!
Human errors will happen. What the game must try and do is to take the human discretion element out of the equation as far as possible.
As of now, it is possible for the third umpire to make all line calls (no-ball, stumping, run-out)without the need for the on-field umpire chancing his luck. Unfortunately technology hasn't developed enough to enable us to do the same with LBWs and edges.
Another thing we need is to make the human element accountable. Having a panel of umpires with a flat salary does not help. A graded contract is much better.
OT
haha...but seeing the regulatory of errors happening there wont be any umpires left... ;-)
john
thanks for dropping by and your comments...
actually there is strange lack of urgency to go for tweaks...what stopping them to try out things like match referee coming into picture immediately on some of horrendous decisions...which are visible to even naked eye...before batsmen leaving ground...or trying two referrals per day in test match etc...
if they find it difficult to implement coz of notions that it will slow down game then why not try it on domestic level first to test the water...
we can spend endless time whether fielder's part of body was touching the rope or not but are not showing any respect to the possibility of turning the match away from a team, depriving well deserved finish of an innings...or may be in some cases, possibility of curtailing the career short..
but as i said, there is serious lack of intent here...
Point...but if technology were to rule, it will have to be uniform and better than what's available.
And I do not expect ICC to regulate it's umpires...that's all they have and would be left with none. I mean, how could they pull up Simon Taufel erring merrily in England when he was what, the best umpire four or five times in a row?
We, and the players, have to just grin and bear it unless the ICC has a proper umpiring program and assessment with penalties. Either that or they invest in technology development and dissimilation...till then we go on as it has always been.
sb
agree with you...but sooner or later ICC will have to make plans, investments coz i don't see it going on...game will evolve and they will have to budge..
The debate is on about umpiring and technology. ICC doesn't appear to be investing much. I guess it will be forced upon them...maybe the ICL and like franchises will begin to use technology which will have to be adopted.
ICL has something like 9 runs for a particularly long hit. Now this could catch on you now. Maybe they'll use more technology too, for they'll have to to measure these hits anyway.
I think the standard of umpiring today is quite good... Today we have technology that debates the umpire but also enables him to go through replays and work on his skills... Am sure decades ago, umpiring could have been a whole lot worse... since there was nobody to scrutinize him.
yews scorpicity...
but why not take small steps first and then see if it does any good or not...why it such a bit deal??
perhaps we should replace cricketers with robots as well, just to make sure no one makes a mistake.
Plenty happened on the cricket fields today SP. Waiting for your next post on Sunday's events.
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