referral system is now permanant?
By stardustcdsd
@stardustcdsd (1856)
India
May 14, 2009 1:18am CST
hi friends.not many of my cricket coverage sites gave any kind of idea that the referral system has been made permanant but got the news .
ICC did say they r using his referral system will be tested before making it permanant and they did and now made it permanant.
now each and every decision will be referred to the 3rd umpire from run out to caught behind to leg before decisions.i wonder what will be the job of the 2 onfield umpires?giving wides and no balls? what do you think of this?
4 responses
@stardustcdsd (1856)
• India
14 May 09
if u can answer my question,u will get the answer for yours.
in the past 5 years,lets assume there has been a 100 run out dismissals (not considering the run outs where the batsmen is not even in the frame while the bails r removed).how many of those dismissals were given out by the onfield umpires without asking the third umpire?
90? no
70?no
i dont know the exact numbers but i believe it will be less than 25.
whom to blame?the umpires for being not sharp enough? or the ICC for introducing it and making the umpires way too complacent that they always chose the easy way by referring it to the third umpire?
i know it will be tough for umpires.direct hit run outs r tough .agreed.but if even i,from my TV screen without any compromising angle,can tell whether the batsmen is in or out,why cant the umpires who stood as umpires for more than 50 matches still go for the 3rd umpire?
@acematthews71 (1084)
• India
14 May 09
Well, I think that the current on-field umpires are struggling very much in their decisions except few like Simon Taufel and might be the reason for the permanent introduction now of the referral system into cricketing world which may be not liked by many cricketing nations. First of all, it takes a lot of time when a review is taken and then the games length would be increased. But when did this announcement of making referral system made permanent done?
@stardustcdsd (1856)
• India
14 May 09
it has its advantages but the disadvantages r too many.no one made a big news out of it.i was checking the election update when they showed this piece of news at the bottom.got too upset .
@amitksing (1323)
• India
14 May 09
I think the earlier rule of allowing the on field umpires to have the authority to refer to the third umpire in any case where they find it difficult to judge, was a good one. But due to several bad decisions which on many occasions resulted in changing the face of the game completely, something was to be done.
But giving every decision to the umpire with the camera doesn't look very promising, at least to cricket! I think the better option will be to allow batting and balling sides to challenge the decision of on-field umpire, as it was tested in few games.
Else, it will be an end to the Umpiring era, one more instance where technology replaces human expertise.
@stardustcdsd (1856)
• India
14 May 09
my view is that ICC should takes steps to improve the standard of the umpires rather than making it too easy for them.the only place where i thought the referral system worked was in IPL where the players challenged the umpire decision with only 3 challenger per team.it went good but when i think back to the india tour of srilanka and especially the final indian innings of the 3rd test,it made me think other wise.[b]in that test sachin injured his elbow but did came to bat and he was given LBW of mendis which was too plumb to give not out.but dravid insisted he challenege the decision as they had 2 more left and sachin did and wasted some time of the test match.i am sure players will ask for such things with these referral system
