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***Official*** India in South Africa

FaaipDeOiad

Hall of Fame Member
I would atleast expect a fine on them. They are horrible!

South Africa 1.30
India 3.40.
You can hardly fine umpires for making errors. They're mistakes, not rule-breaking. Certainly if umpires consistently make mistakes they should be demoted from the top level, and umpires should recieve constant feedback from the ICC about their performance so they can work on any problems, but the latter already happens and the former is a difficult thing to manage, as you need to have a competent umpire to come in as a replacement. You can't just fire umpires left and right for making mistakes.
 

Sanz

Hall of Fame Member
Man...this is just pure incompetence.
Why ? Has it never happened before ? I think I have seen pretty much every international umpire do that at some point. If Munaf had hit a six off it, probably no one would have said a word.
 

Dravid

International Captain
You can hardly fine umpires for making errors. They're mistakes, not rule-breaking. Certainly if umpires consistently make mistakes they should be demoted from the top level, and umpires should recieve constant feedback from the ICC about their performance so they can work on any problems, but the latter already happens and the former is a difficult thing to manage, as you need to have a competent umpire to come in as a replacement. You can't just fire umpires left and right for making mistakes.
But this is not one mistake we are talking about here.
 

Dasa

International Vice-Captain
Why ? Has it never happened before ? I think I have seen pretty much every international umpire do that at some point. If Munaf had hit a six off it, probably no one would have said a word.
Come on now, just because it's happened before doesn't make it any less incompetent. At any rate, I'm commenting on the series as a whole - this was just the last straw, and considering the importance it could have on the match, I think a comment on it is fair.
 

Dravid

International Captain
Why ? Has it never happened before ? I think I have seen pretty much every international umpire do that at some point. If Munaf had hit a six off it, probably no one would have said a word.
Execpt the saf supporters ;)
 

Dravid

International Captain
Haha no. I'd rather score runs then get out, compared to not score runs and get out. :laugh:
But the thing was he was looking so good, but he still managed to get out to a worse shot than sehwag(which is pretty tough imo) of course anyone would take the runs, but I'm just saying.
 

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