Joel Wilson

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The Bradman of umpires

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767423872003895330

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

ITSTL. Why did Chris Brown stop playing for Auckland back in the day? Wasn’t he pretty handy for them? @SteveNZ bound to know.

 

[Yeoman]

The Bradman of umpires

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767423872003895330

How he has remained on the elite panel so long is beyond me and these statistics just add more evidence.

 

[Coronis]

I’ve always hated the terminology used in this.

Review upheld just immediately makes my mind go to “umpire’s decision was upheld”

 

[SteveNZ]

ITSTL. Why did Chris Brown stop playing for Auckland back in the day? Wasn’t he pretty handy for them? @SteveNZ bound to know.

Pretty sure back injuries, which is why he took to umpiring early. Wonderful bloke, Chris Brown. Great umpire, too.

 

[howitzer]

Interesting to see Dharmasena not doing to badly on this. Maybe the criticisms of him have been a tad overzealous.

 

[Immenso]

Backs up my impression that Chris Brown has been excellent every time i have seen him.

 

[Immenso]

I wonder what the 2 reviews per innings changing to 3 review per innings (around 2020) would do to these stats?

Make the current ones look worse? than the 2010s guys? or better? They must be getting a few more speculators?

 

[TheJediBrah]

Wonderful bloke, Chris Brown.

Tell that to Rihanna

 

[Cricket Bliss]

Still remember 3 wrong decisions including blunders he gave during the first day of the first Test of the 2019 Ashes at Birmingham.
Watched him live during the 2023 World Cup between New Zealand and Sri Lanka at Bengaluru.

“Bradman of Umpires”

 

[Molehill]

A couple of other figures of note there. Reiffel has been umpiring the same period as Dharmasena and has a worse record.

The other one who stands out as being very decent from these stats is Rod Tucker.

 

[Yeoman]

I wonder what the 2 reviews per innings changing to 3 review per innings (around 2020) would do to these stats?

Make the current ones look worse? than the 2010s guys? or better? They must be getting a few more speculators?

You would think that if there are more speculative reviews now that there are three per innings it would improve the stars of the present day umpires as a higher percentage of reviews will be borderline cases where the Players are taking a chance and the umpires are less likely to be obviously wrong outside of the ‘umpires call’ margin of error than previously.

 

[Molehill]

You would think that if there are more speculative reviews now that there are three per innings it would improve the stars of the present day umpires as a higher percentage of reviews will be borderline cases where the Players are taking a chance and the umpires are less likely to be obviously wrong outside of the ‘umpires call’ margin of error than previously.

Agreed, if you're 7 down with 3 reviews left, you take a review on an lbw no matter what (or you should do anyway). There were a couple of those in the last England innings to Bumrah stonewall lbw's.

That's why it's best to judge those against their peers who have umpired for the same period. As I mentioned previously, Tucker comes out of this very well.

 

[kevinw]

Interesting to see Dharmasena not doing to badly on this. Maybe the criticisms of him have been a tad overzealous.

I just remember when Mo successfully reviewed three LBWs in an over in BAN.

 

[howitzer]

I just remember when Mo successfully reviewed three LBWs in an over in BAN.

Mo was generally a very good judge of a review. He had that going for him.