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Daryl Harper withdraws from Dominica test
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Cevno
Hall of Fame Member
He wasn't even singled out. Was not that harsh of a comment tbh.
Cue Chris Broad to Ban Dhoni for a match or something now.
In any case he was going off the Elite panel after the test match ,and will be replaced by a supposed better umpire.
Was a likeable chap though ,but never shirked the attention so may have wanted one last Hyping/Remembering moment by this.
Cue Chris Broad to Ban Dhoni for a match or something now.
In any case he was going off the Elite panel after the test match ,and will be replaced by a supposed better umpire.
Was a likeable chap though ,but never shirked the attention so may have wanted one last Hyping/Remembering moment by this.
BlazeDragon
Banned
Well Dhoni was the one objecting DRS so he has no room to be complaining about wrongful decisions.
flibbertyjibber
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Maybe Dhoni was on about PK being warned and banned from bowling in the 1st innings?
Cruxdude
International Debutant
That is absolute bull****. UDRS doesn't mean that an umpire can be crap. Umpires are still expected to make good decisions. Didn't watch enough of the test match to have an opinion of the umpiring but Harper has never been among the best of umpires.
BlazeDragon
Banned
He and everybody else fully knows wrongful decisions are basically a part of cricket. You can't have cricket without wrongful decisions happening just like you can't have soccer without fouls happening. Not saying Harper is any saint, but Dhoni playing his part in DRS not being involved should be the last person to publicly complain about it. WI also suffered from wrongful decisions and they are not going around complaining about it all the time.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
The beauty of DRS is that crap decisions made by the umpires get overturned. That way the umpire being crap doesn't have an impact on the game and people forget that the umpire was atrocious.
Billy Doctrove had a couple of shockers in the England-Sri Lanka series. All soon forgotten because they were overturned.
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
I'm sorry to see someone's career heading for the plughole like this, and Harper's always seemed a decent sort of cove.
I've never thought he's really been up to the standard of Test cricket. But I was interested to read in the article that the stats show his decision-making in Tests involving India has been significantly above the average of his peers.
As for MS Dhoni's comment -
I've never thought he's really been up to the standard of Test cricket. But I was interested to read in the article that the stats show his decision-making in Tests involving India has been significantly above the average of his peers.
As for MS Dhoni's comment -
- I'd like to think that's out of character. I think Dhoni's better than that.
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Cruxdude
International Debutant
But that doesn't excuse crap umpires. What if there is a situation with UDRS where the team has run out of reviews and we have a couple of ****ty decisions?
Top_Cat
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Agree with this. To quote VicO, Harper's a ripping man but he's prone to the odd shocker.
Didn't like Dhoni's comments one bit, tbh.
Bun
Banned
not that harper has beena super hit with udrs as well
Harper howlers undermine UDRS | Cricket Features | South Africa v England 2009/10 | ESPN Cricinfo
bad umpiring has no place in international cricket, these umpires are called elite for a reason... if udrs can justify their bad calls, why the need for elite umps? a bun can also do the honors....
Harper howlers undermine UDRS | Cricket Features | South Africa v England 2009/10 | ESPN Cricinfo
bad umpiring has no place in international cricket, these umpires are called elite for a reason... if udrs can justify their bad calls, why the need for elite umps? a bun can also do the honors....
Xuhaib
International Coach
which means that the team has used its reviews poorly.UDRS is tailor made for umpires like Hair, Dotrove, Bowden ok-ish umpires but prone to having some really inconsistent days yes it does not give an excuse for an umpire to be poor but it allows the playing teams to get away with minimum damage even if an umpire is having an off day.
Dhoni's comments were way out of line and did come across quite poor should have been reprimanded for it imo.
Edged&Taken
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silentstriker
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BoyBrumby
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All other issues aside, Hair was one of the best decision makers in cricket, actually. His % of correct shouts was consistently up there, second only to Taufel.
vcs
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A bit controversial IMO. Nothing out of the ordinary. Funny there wasn't much noise when India got 3 wrong LBW decisions in their favour in a close Test in Durban (one involving Zaheer who went on to add 50 odd runs with Laxman, and De Villiers and Boucher in the fourth innings chase).