Is there anything more significant than the new ‘review’ laws being trialled in India and the West Indies right now? The ability for a team, batting or bowling to undermine or challenge the umpire’s decisions, has changed the game as we know it.
It is Ian Healy’s opinion that it throws the whole integrity of the ruling umpire’s decision into chaos and rebuke, particularly when parents are adjudicating the game.
Every kid can dispute, even if there is no means to.
And even if the third umpire gets to review the play in slow motion over and again and from various angles, it doesn’t mean they get it right. Harmison was wrongly awarded the ‘caught behind’ of the Windies tailender. The general public got to see the same footage as the third umpire and, unbelievably, he managed to call it incorrectly.
Astounding!
And as far as the credibility of being a ‘walker’, most players should adopt this honourable principle, otherwise risk losing any integrity they thought they had.
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