You Rate the Umpire

Umpires will always have mishaps, as long as they don't make blunders, i'm good.  Like when Russell was out against England, I thought it pitched outside leg.  on replay, it turned out to be a dead lbw decision!

India vs Australia

Dar has really been top class this last year or two, no doubt about that!  And Harper is really poor, I generally don't criticize umpires but I've probably had enough of Harper.  Just hope he's not umpiring any of West Indies game!

I've just seen that as well mate !   de Silva's referrals were all reversed and Dar and Taufel's all upheld - that says a lot !   That my pal Harper is next to bottom is no surprise either .

Man ICC tweaks the 2.5m DRS rule. I mean already... Thought they would wait for the WC to get over. Good move for me.
The new rule states that if any part of the ball is judged to hit any part of the middle stump the on-field umpire may reverse his initial Not-Out. With the previous rule the ball had to hit dead center of the middle stump. This came into play in the Ind\Ire game when Cusack's lbw(or not lbw) decision was reversed by the field umpire Rod Tucker to be given in the bowlers favor giving Yuvraj his 5th wicket.
Remember it was the same bowler who suffered in the Bell scenario previously.


Edited by vote4peace - 07 March 2011 at 7:04am

I guess it was more than five times - Harper was horrible last night. But he has always been so.

Umpires these days would appear a bit more worse due to technology and whether the oldies want to believe it or not, its true.  How many decisions do we see first hand that we form a conclusion for then when the replay come we go to another?  Dar and Taufel today are top class, Gould is pretty good too.  Umpire gets a decision wrong marginally, I can live with that!

I was mentioning about the Eng and Aus umpires Zuhair. So didn't mention Dave Orchard, Ian Robinson and Steve Bucknor. But you are right. They were terrific. There was one more umpire from Aus who was very handsome and used to umpire most of the matches in the 80's. He was very good too.

Absolutely right Sledge. The best umpires I have seen are from Eng and Aus. Sheps, Bird, Tauffel, Randell, Hair were terrific umpires.

1) If you are a minnow, rest assured the balance of the umpiring will go against you, eg. Kenya vs Sri Lanka today. Kenya were put in the position of having to use their reviews against some poor LBW decisions.

Regarding the 2.5 metre rule, if they go by standing umpires decision blindly, then why should they count it as an unsuccesful review for the bowling side Sledge? It is only the techinal limitation of device which have made them to go for this rule. In such a case why should the bowling side suffer?

Edited by kirankri - 01 March 2011 at 6:22am

Wouldn't say totally ineffective, true not foolproof  but did come handy a lot of times in this world cup alone.  The UDRS can only get better with time and we need to give it a shot at some point. UDRS will , i think, take the game forward and should be used consistently from now on. Just can't keep using it for selective series which is just going back and forth.
Yes would be better with the snicko and hot spot, but still present DRS for me better than No DRS!!

Originally posted by Sledger Do you mean the Ian Bell debacle Kiran ?  It was out but they've made a ruling whereby if the batsman is 2.5 meters from the crease they'll stay with the standing umpire's decision.  I'm not sure that's right , but that's what they've decided and all the batsman are aware of it.

Kiran has taken it one step ahead - from India to the Indian sub-continent :p Clever chap.

I don't think you can blame the TV Umpire. He was just following the rule book. There's apparently a 2.5 rule which states that the accuracy of the ball trakker isn't precise when the ball is pitched beyond the 2.5m(from the strikers stumps or the crease not sure about that) mark. Its just a matter of debate if that should have been out or not. Its the ICC that might have to do the tinkering job again with the UDRS rules.
As far as the captains and the teams are considered they just need to accept it and move on, no on field drama required.

Edited by vote4peace - 28 February 2011 at 7:00am