Dickie Bird VS David Shepherd VS Simon Taufel VS Aleem Dar

[Cricket Bliss]

who is the greatest umpire?

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Joel Wilson

 

[capt_Luffy]

Joel Wilson

Steve Bucknor

 

[Johan]

Kumar Dharamsena

 

[sayon basak]

SIS Saikat.

 

[Coronis]

Billy Bowden. By far the most iconic umpire I’ve seen.

 

[Cricket Bliss]

Irrelevant here, still asking when did flat track era began and when did it end.

 

[Johan]

Irrelevant here, still asking when did flat track era began and when did it end.

Pre-WWI was probably extremely tough.

20s probably fair but a little batting friendly.

30s batting friendly but a little overstated because Bradman, definitely batting friendly though.

40s, Idk about the pitches but the team imbalance was insane, Australia being much stronger than the war torned England in every single way, idk if the pitches were uber flat or if the English bowlers just weren't good enough to take out Australia. definitely still a batting era tho imo.

50s extremely bowler friendly everywhere bar the west indies.

60s batter friendly bar England which was probably neutral and New Zealand which were greentops.

Pakistan bowler friendly bar the uber batting friendly Pakistan.

80s being bowler friendly all around bar perhaps the exception of India.

90s Bowler friendly bar again, perhaps England.

2000s being complete featherbeds except Sri Lanka and South Africa, and Sri Lankan pitches being completely unproductive for pace bowling.

2010-2015, South Africa, England and West Indies become more productive for bowling, Sri Lanka gets flatter.

2015-2025, everywhere except Pakistan decided to become minefields, there is New Zealand which is a little neutral though

this is my personal view, and I could very well be wrong at points.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Pre-WWI was probably extremely tough.

20s probably fair but a little batting friendly.

30s batting friendly but a little overstated because Bradman, definitely batting friendly though.

40s, Idk about the pitches but the team imbalance was insane, Australia being much stronger than the war torned England in every single way, idk if the pitches were uber flat or if the English bowlers just weren't good enough to take out Australia. definitely still a batting era tho imo.

50s extremely bowler friendly everywhere bar the west indies.

60s batter friendly bar England which was probably neutral and New Zealand which were greentops.

Pakistan bowler friendly bar the uber batting friendly Pakistan.

80s being bowler friendly all around bar perhaps the exception of India.

90s Bowler friendly bar again, perhaps England.

2000s being complete featherbeds except Sri Lanka and South Africa, and Sri Lankan pitches being completely unproductive for pace bowling.

2010-2015, South Africa, England and West Indies become more productive for bowling, Sri Lanka gets flatter.

2015-2025, everywhere except Pakistan decided to become minefields, there is New Zealand which is a little neutral though

this is my personal view, and I could very well be wrong at points.

Pre WWI Australia was tough but normal tough, England and SA were nightmare.

20s were among the flattest decades (also had the lowest standard of bowling)

40s were just genuinely all around flat. English batters scored tons of runs too.

80s India weren't necessarily very flat, we just lacked any quality spinners (tbf the decade did as a whole)

2000s SL I don't think we're completely unresponsive to pacers. Vaas had a Great record there and a no of pacers succeeded, but not productive for pace is alright.

All IMO ofcourse.

 

[shortpitched713]

If we're looking at current umpires I think the objective answer according to ICC was Michael Gough.

Went with Dar in this group as I believe he has the best DRS review record out of this group, as far as the ones that actually could be decision checked with it.

 

[Coronis]

Irrelevant here, still asking when did flat track era began and when did it end.

Derailing your own thread after 7 posts. Impressive.

 

[Molehill]

How would Bird and Shepherd do in the current umpiring era?

 

[subshakerz]

Taufel seemed right on the money the most.

 

[DrWolverine]

Dickie Bird is still alive

 

[Johan]

Pre WWI Australia was tough but normal tough, England and SA were nightmare.

I think it was probably like modern day Australia, good seam movement and bounce but if you're a good Batsmen you can also make a bunch of runs.

40s were just genuinely all around flat. English batters scored tons of runs too.

I did a calculation on England's run output in the 1940s Ashes serieses, the RPW was genuinely 29.6, considering the attack this certainly isn't low but it's kind of...okay? I expect 32-33 atleast for road wickets.

80s India weren't necessarily very flat, we just lacked any quality spinners (tbf the decade did as a whole)

I think they weren't flat in theory but on practicality, when an entire decade lacks a good spinner, batting was probably pretty easy on then, no away spinners for India to worry about (like Lyon in this era) and no good home spinners.

2000s SL I don't think we're completely unresponsive to pacers. Vaas had a Great record there and a no of pacers succeeded, but not productive for pace is alright.

probably not completely unproductive but honestly I think they were pretty much the definition of turners, not like the ones Pakistan and India recently make but if one is good enough at hitting a certain length, they can probably exploit on the uneven pace and bounce.