Referral System claims its first victim

[Matt79]

Umpires would eventually start referring everything that was even close though, like they do with run-outs. While people will no doubt whinge about how much time this would waste, I personally wouldn't blink an eye if we lost five overs a day should it mean we eliminated the vast majority of umpiring mistakes.

This post typifies to me part of why I object to the push to a review system. To read that, you'd assume that currently the game is crippled with poor officiating. Someone quoted the figure of 92% of decisions by umpires are correct - that's partly the reason why bad decisions invoke such heartache, because they're a distortion of the normal order of things.

If you want to drastically change how the game flows to address the proportion of those 8% that are seriously wrong, as opposed to line ball calls that don't upset either side too much, I can only disagree with you.

 

[zaremba]

This post typifies to me part of why I object to the push to a review system. To read that, you'd assume that currently the game is crippled with poor officiating. Someone quoted the figure of 92% of decisions by umpires are correct - that's partly the reason why bad decisions invoke such heartache, because they're a distortion of the normal order of things.

If you want to drastically change how the game flows to address the proportion of those 8% that are seriously wrong, as opposed to line ball calls that don't upset either side too much, I can only disagree with you.

I think getting 8% of decisions wrong is not good enough.

I far prefer the 3% under the new system (although I take both figures with a pinch of s.)

And it's not as though the referrals hold things up all that much.

 

[Uppercut]

Never has a change been made to the game (or indeed any game) without opposition. People are suspicious of change. I reckon that within five years the loose aspects of the system will be tied up, it'll be universally accepted and we'll all wonder how we ever got on without it, in the same way that we now think of run-out referrals.

 

[zaremba]

Never has a change been made to the game (or indeed any game) without opposition. People are suspicious of change. I reckon that within five years the loose aspects of the system will be tied up, it'll be universally accepted and we'll all wonder how we ever got on without it, in the same way that we now think of run-out referrals.

Except for one of our number, who will be saying "the fact that the system works excellently does not mean it was right to introduce it in the first place"

 

[Edged&Taken]

no more neutral umpires is a possibility , if there's further success with the referral system
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