Posts Tagged "umpires"

Umpiring Test match cricket is a tough job, both physically and mentally. Being on your feet for six hours a day up to five days in a row can be torture for your feet, legs and back.

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If I may step up on the soapbox, the biggest blight in the game of Test cricket currently is this practice of umpires holding potentially outgoing batsmen on the field while they check for a no-ball.

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How would you feel if every time you made an error at work, fifteen thousand people were made aware of it?

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The AFL’s new advantage rule was put under the microscope over the weekend after Scott Pendlebury wasn’t paid advantage on a play where he kicked a goal that would’ve put Collingwood in front against Geelong on Friday night. Yesterday, umpires boss Jeff Gieschen conceded advantage should’ve been paid.

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It was last Friday night at the MCG and Richmond was in the process of causing the biggest upset of the 2011 season. With only a few minutes remaining in the final term, the young Tigers led the more fancied Saints by six points.

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The one thing that gets lost in the debate about umpires in cricket is the fact that we are talking about a game. Dare I say, a sport. Now, if we are trying to put a man on the moon then I can understand we’d want the available technology to be as accurate as possible.

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These days two aspects annoy me in cricket. Firstly, international cricketers bowling so many no-balls. The other is the escalation of the review system and the replacement of umpires by video referee.

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Mark Taylor has left no listener in doubt that he would prefer a batsman to be dismissed by a no-ball rather than have an umpire cross-check whether a delivery was legal or not. Indeed, Taylor seems altogether underwhelmed by the introduction of the Umpire Decision Review System (DRS).

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If you love the AFL unconditionally, please do not read on. However, if you, like myself, are thoroughly disgusted by the goings-on of the 2010 season, then read on and be prepared to grimace.

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Move over Jeff Kennett. For the fourth time this month, Eddie McGuire has played the role of most outspoken president – this time with the bizarre suggestion that telling wired-up umpires how long is left in a quarter could lead to corruption.

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During Friday night’s West Coast-Essendon preseason hit-out, some time in between feats of Nic Naitanui brilliance, a curious umpiring decision managed to raise a few eyebrows.

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Australia are in the Champions Trophy final, and that means the man considered by many as the best umpire in the world will again be a spectator.

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Our AFL umpires warrant a degree of sympathy on occasions. They have a tough job – much tougher than most of us realise – and they often bear the brunt of supporters’ frustration.

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There is a school of thought which holds that a batsman should never rub his arm when an umpire is weighing up whether or not to call him out, caught behind off the glove – not even if the ball did indeed hit his arm.

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The umpire is always right, even when he is wrong. Blatantly wrong, unbelievably wrong, Koertzen-esque wrong.

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Match referee Jeff Crowe sought to extinguish Monday the smouldering Ashes catching row which became one of the major talking points during England’s second Test victory over Australia here at Lord’s.

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Australian coach Tim Nielsen has called for consistency from umpires on television referrals following the three controversial decisions that threatened to quickly finish off Australia at Lord’s on Sunday.

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Major change is, or is about to be, underway in several sports, with regard to the way they are officiated. All the sports involved will of course be spruiking that the changes will improve the way their game is played, but players and supporters may well have reason to be sceptical. Only time will tell.

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In the past, any attempts to expand the role of third umpires for them to adjudicate in all decisions have for the most part failed. The reason is that a lot of decisions had a shade of grey and it takes a very long time to reach accurate decisions for these difficult appeals.

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What a Test series! While most the media have been proclaiming the decline of the Australian side and of some players, we should instead pay homage to the great spectacle that has been played out this summer and remember fondly a great era of Australian cricket.

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