Kraken
State Captain
Joel Wilson is comfortably the worst international umpire I've seen in my time. How he continued to get a gig after the 2019 series is beyond me. Losing a review only happened cause he didn't think Smith gloved it (which is a bad decision within itself but it is what it is).The umpires made numerous strange decisions during the series that didn't even relate to dismissals.
1. Ollie Pope's injury - England were told if he didn't field, we'd have to field with 10 men. So out Pope went and inevitably made his injury worse.
2. The bowling of spinners at OT. Every commentatotor on both radio and TV was surprised at this, saying that it had been darker at other times. The Aussie batsmen had not even made any mention of the light.
3. The ball change at the Oval. Yes the ball had to be changed but the replacement ball was obviously significantly newer than the one it replaced.
4. Losing a review for the non Stokes catch at the Oval.
We all know the standard of umpiring on dismissals has been poor - God knows how many decisions were overturned this series.
But you'd expect even Wilson and Co to get the decisions I've referred to correct. They weren't in the heat of battle with marginal decisions to be made in a split second and yet they still got them wrong.
I think the Pope one was that he was told he couldn't bat if he didn't field - which I mean is a decent point. Why they were so strict on that one, and allowed England to continually bring fresh sub fielders on is ridiculous though