2011/12 Australian Summer Of Cricket (*SPOILERS*)
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The fact remains that for the ICC to allow the BCCI or the governing body of any country the option of not using the Decision Review System is akin to corruption.
It is time for the international umpires to grow a collective backbone and INSTRUCT the ICC that if there is no uniformity (either UDRS is to be used in all Test matches or none at all) from the beginning of 2012 then they will withdraw their labour until such time as there is.
If you were an umpire and KNEW that a greater percentage of your decisons were going to be either verified as correct or correctly overturned due to the technology available, would you not want to use it when it IS available?
It is unquestionably a professional era - there has never been more money or resources available to the game of cricket than there is now. Instead of paying nonsensical wages to people for 5 minutes work in some piddling T20 competition somewhere, the game needs to first protect the people who ensure that a game of cricket can begin in the first place - the umpires.
It is time for the international umpires to grow a collective backbone and INSTRUCT the ICC that if there is no uniformity (either UDRS is to be used in all Test matches or none at all) from the beginning of 2012 then they will withdraw their labour until such time as there is.
If you were an umpire and KNEW that a greater percentage of your decisons were going to be either verified as correct or correctly overturned due to the technology available, would you not want to use it when it IS available?
It is unquestionably a professional era - there has never been more money or resources available to the game of cricket than there is now. Instead of paying nonsensical wages to people for 5 minutes work in some piddling T20 competition somewhere, the game needs to first protect the people who ensure that a game of cricket can begin in the first place - the umpires.
AyiosYiorgos
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I agree, but thats not how its looked at in the subcontinenant...
---------- Post added 27-12-2011 at 10:10 AM ----------
Thats how its looked at , maybe arrogance by the "white controled cricket board" playing countries
---------- Post added 27-12-2011 at 10:10 AM ----------
Thats how its looked at , maybe arrogance by the "white controled cricket board" playing countries
The Mad Hatter
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LOL. DRS was created to stop bad decisions. Nothing sinister.
As far as I am concerned, India can take their bats and balls and toddle off home.
India can go play with themselves.
Sad thing is, it's the fans who miss out...both ways. And there are plenty of Indian commentators decrying the absence of DRS for Indian tests. So it must be the BCCI who is road-blocking it, as fans, media and players like it.
---------- Post added 27-12-2011 at 10:40 AM ----------
Of the Tests I have seen, I have seen 2 things:
1. DRS complements the existing umpires on the field.
2. Many of the Umps decisions are shown to be excellent decisions, as they are astute judges.
The ones DRS overturn are often centimetres in it. But again, more help giving a batsman out or retaining his wicket is beneficial in my, albeit white, eyes.
As far as I am concerned, India can take their bats and balls and toddle off home.
India can go play with themselves.
Sad thing is, it's the fans who miss out...both ways. And there are plenty of Indian commentators decrying the absence of DRS for Indian tests. So it must be the BCCI who is road-blocking it, as fans, media and players like it.
---------- Post added 27-12-2011 at 10:40 AM ----------
Of the Tests I have seen, I have seen 2 things:
1. DRS complements the existing umpires on the field.
2. Many of the Umps decisions are shown to be excellent decisions, as they are astute judges.
The ones DRS overturn are often centimetres in it. But again, more help giving a batsman out or retaining his wicket is beneficial in my, albeit white, eyes.
Billyhoyle
Im Not Juan Garcia
and there's the proof - if it's no review it should be no review at all, they can't have their cake and eat it too
Farmer2Goggin2Wade
R.I.P Captain Beefheart!
This. But it seems the BCCI have control over the ICC and they make the rules for Indias tests.
AyiosYiorgos
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I see it's the Indians fault, 2 different issue's one is the DRS the other is purely for the umpire if he is not sure just as the go for a replay on a run out, or to confirm if the ball touched the boundary rope during a dive etc, it's just an extension of this...
The Mad Hatter
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No...they are so pure as the driven snow, believing in the spirit of the game, they shouldn't get ANY reviews for anything. FMD - Patto tore out the spinner's middle and leg stumps and Erasmus gives Not Out! What the **** do they look for in adjudicating the LBW decision?
dont like the whole "one set of rules for the Indians and one set for everyone else" crap. who cares what they want, they need to go with the flow on this one, its the way cricket is going so they need to get over it. the ICC needs to put their foot down on this one, each series must have the same rules that everyone else are playing by. trust the Indians to want it their way or not at all, i say if they cant play like everyone else dont let them play until they change their minds.
AyiosYiorgos
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Oh well your right im wrong, thats why DRS in not available, but the other is...
---------- Post added 28-12-2011 at 01:26 PM ----------
Well maybe instead of not implementing when all countries have not agreed, we wouldn't be in this situation, no such thing as democracy....
---------- Post added 28-12-2011 at 01:26 PM ----------
Well maybe instead of not implementing when all countries have not agreed, we wouldn't be in this situation, no such thing as democracy....
AyiosYiorgos
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you think, but dont the ICC make the rules? i just dont like the way the Indians get one set of rules and everyone else gets another set. its pretty obvious the most fairest way to umpire the game is to be able to refer a decision. if the Indians dont want to go along with that then tough. the ICC told some of the lesser world cup playing nations that they might not be playing in the next world cup, just do the same to these guys. if you ask me it seems a little suss that they dont want referrals in the first place.
AyiosYiorgos
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it downs't matter who makes the rules, India has the money/power presently... I agree fairest way is that any decision can be reviewed to make sure it's right...
