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Aus push for umpiring reforms to lessen howlers

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Posted online: Thursday , February 07, 2008 at 1144 hrs IST

Melbourne, February 7:: With the dwindling umpiring standards becoming a major concern for the players, Australia would be pushing for better training and more pay for on-field officials besides asking for an expansion of the 10-member elite panel.

According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, the Australians are discontented with the current level of umpiring, which caused an ugly furore during the Test series against India.

West Indian veteran Steve Bucknor had to be removed after committing several howlers that dealt telling blows to India during the series.

"The Plummeting standards of world umpiring have become an urgent concern and Australia is pushing for the expansion of the 10-member elite panel to ease the workload," the report stated.

The Aussie players reportedly want to have their home-grown world's best umpire Simon Taufel, 37, in their matches but the neutral umpires policy has been coming in the way.

"Australia's leading Test cricketers also have concerns they never get to play under Taufel, clearly the world's top umpire, because of the requirement for neutral umpires in all Tests," the report said.

The report also said Australia is concerned about the amount of workload that the umpires have to cope with and wants more recruitments to address the matter. Dodgy umpiring once again became a talking point here after Indian batsman Rohit Sharma was adjudged caught behind by South African Rudi Koertzon during the ongoing tri-series match against Sri Lanka. Replays clearly showed that the batsman had not nicked the ball.

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Umpiring standards
by ramesh bahety on 2008-02-08 15:48:38.163799+05:30
good that atlast aussie have realised that ICC should do some thing sonnest to off-set the level of poor umpiring it will not be a bad idea that umpires are asked to take help of electronic support if they are even 1% in doubt
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Who is talking reforms
by Timbaktoo on 2008-02-08 05:15:11.74681+05:30
ulta chor kotwal ko daate , bagula bhagat , yeh to goonde sharafat padhane chale
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Cricket umpiring fiasco
by Sanjeev Athale on 2008-02-08 05:10:24.404797+05:30
Cricket should be played in all fairness
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Neutral umpiring
by Amit on 2008-02-08 01:42:19.656385+05:30
What cricket needs is neutral umpiring (then neutral umpires). Aussies should do an analysis what % of incorrect decisions (a.k.a human errors) went in favor of Australia versus the other team. Why 90% of the bad decisions favored Australia in a recently concluded series?
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look who is talking
by ceedeeram on 2008-02-07 20:24:36.210647+05:30
Aussies are one of the countries which voted against use of technology for umpiring, as they are always favored by the 'neutral umpires'.Now they want to make it look as if others are crying fowl and umpires are being overworked etc.etc.If any country is sincere let them vote for use of more technology, reversal of field umpire decision instantly by a panel of expert referees with the aid of technology.To err is human i do agree with that.But human errors and wanton mischief by so called neutral umpires as it happened in Sydney test need not be put up with.There is sure a better way available, only will to walk down that path is missing.
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