You Rate the Umpire

We all like to have a go at the umpires , in all forms of the game.  I thought it might be interesting to rate them after each world cup match.  From a score or 1 (shocking)  , 2 (poor) , 3 (average) ,  4 (good)  and 5 (excellent ) , half points are okay too .  We'll get to see how rational our thoughts are , especially when our teams are involved.   Simply post in this thread your score for both standing umpires and the 3rd umpire (he's got an important job and we've seen they've messed that up in the past!) , not forgetting which game you're scoring on! Then add some comments to explain your rating.  I'll collate the data at the end of each match and also at the end of the tournament to see how they all did.
             For easy reading , keep the format the same (see below)

               Match    -      England  vs  The Nederlands 

               Umpires    Simon Taufel      4
                                  Aleem Dar           3.5 
          3rd Umpire    Billy Doctrell        4

        Comments    -   Taufel , as usual did his job with the minimum of fuss. That lbw that he gave that was given not out on referral was the only reason I couldn't give him 5.  Aleem Dar had two shaky moments , the first when he asked if the Broad dismissal was a no ball when he was well behind the line and the lbw he gave when it pitched outside leg stump.  The former was a poor one , the latter was very close , in no ways could it be called a howler.    Doctrove gets 4 , getting all his decisions right , but he did take too long over that lbw against Strauss - it didn't need that many replays.
            

Doctrove  !!  Tis early and I had a late night matey !

Sledger, are you taking notes?

Zimbabwe have got two successful reviews - that certainly means negative score for the ump. I am following it online so cant tell who the umpire is on that end.

The other one is Richard Kettleborough. I am not sure about that Sledge, because I remember the PAk IRL game of the 2007 WC and the umpiring was horrible though it was not tilted in the favour of the top side.

Probably the cushion of having the DRS makes the umpires a bit relaxed too.

I'll rate the umpires when I get to watch an entire match - watching dribs and drabs and then rating the officials would be unfair. Having said that , apart from da Silva ,they've all done pretty well.

Firstly , which match was that mate and secondly where does he come from , I've never heard of him!

Sledge has seen him but just can't remember his name.   

I'll go with that zuhair , generally Indian umpires have been pretty awful !

And what about yesterday's third umpire Sledge? He deserves a 1 or probably -4 (minus 4) because he was a TV umpire. A bad decision from TV umpire should get negative...

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

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

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.

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!!

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