tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7445558282646097463.post1451646118990184421..comments2023-09-27T20:05:29.145+05:30Comments on Third Umpire on Branding: Umpires better managed than houndedAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13925165090244656996noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7445558282646097463.post-26897837962158310452007-09-13T13:44:00.000+05:302007-09-13T13:44:00.000+05:30I agree Ram that the system is completely and tota...I agree Ram that the system is completely and totally in favour of batsmen.Yes we also assume that if the batsman is given out wrongly he would have made a hundred, and as you say rightly, he may well be out the very next ball!"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13925165090244656996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7445558282646097463.post-82161632238861621952007-09-13T13:43:00.000+05:302007-09-13T13:43:00.000+05:30read. need some lobbyists to handle umpires and ot...read. need some lobbyists to handle umpires and others. being a cricket superpower (read money in cricket), we need some favourable treatment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7445558282646097463.post-48983315825057859392007-09-11T13:58:00.000+05:302007-09-11T13:58:00.000+05:30Cant agree with you more. I thought the Dravid dec...Cant agree with you more. I thought the Dravid decision might have been actually a correct one as suggested by the snicko. Dravid himself says he wasn’t sure. The Sachin decision was a tough one since the bat hit the pad as the ball went past the bat. The Simon taufel decision to give sachin lbw in the nineties was not such a hugh error. As ian chappel says if the batsman is not playing a shot then the benefit of the doubt has to go to the bowler. Already the rules are heavily loaded in favour of the batsmen if the ball pitches outside leg. Warne might have taken 2000 wickets if that rule wasn’t there. It might not have benefited kumble much since he doesn’t spin the ball anyways. Coming back to the umpiring issue why do we always think that if sachin had not been given out at 30 he would have got a hundred. He might have been out at 35, 35 balls later which might have actually hampered India. It is precisiely to negate this human error component more batsmen have stopped walking( with exceptions like gilchrist and lara)so that they get the rub of the green in their favour and finally things even out. May be technology can be selectively introduced like each batsmen can get 3 appeals ( like the tennis line calls) to go to the third umpire.They need to stay at the crease long enough for that!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com