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Worst umpiring decisions ever?
This is Cricinfo's top ten
And no, Darrell Hair does not feature.
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And no, Darrell Hair does not feature.
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A furious Allen remonstrated with Bestwick, who, in a refreshingly honest reply, explained that he was dying for a pee and that he would have wet himself had he not ended the innings.
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Strauss. Oh, then Strauss again. Wait, one more Strauss.
No wonder the guy's a trembling wreck.
No wonder the guy's a trembling wreck.
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Dysons non run out, Sydney 1983. Shocking, out by 2 metres...
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There have been a few candidates in West Indies v Australia matches in the last 2 series.
Venkat gave Lara out in the 3rd test of the 2003 series at Bridgetown to an amazingly bad decision. A ball pitched just outside leg and moving away from the off stump was inside edged onto his pads by Lara and yet Venkat gave it out. Here is how cricinfo described it:
That was a shocker dealt to Lara, Bichel bowling from over the wicket gets a ball to pitch on leg and angle towards off, Lara chops the ball back onto his pad, HUGE inside edge and onto the back pad! Umpire Venkat decides that's out.
I remember Billy Bowden giving Sarwan a shocker on our last tour of Australia that Im convinced was given out because Brett Lee ran off celebrating without bothering to look at the umpire. A yorker hit Sarwan on the ankle and was missing two sets of stumps let alone one.
I also remember Eddie Nicholls bizarrely giving Carl Hooper not out on the tv replay when he was clearly short of his ground against India in 2002.
Venkat gave Lara out in the 3rd test of the 2003 series at Bridgetown to an amazingly bad decision. A ball pitched just outside leg and moving away from the off stump was inside edged onto his pads by Lara and yet Venkat gave it out. Here is how cricinfo described it:
That was a shocker dealt to Lara, Bichel bowling from over the wicket gets a ball to pitch on leg and angle towards off, Lara chops the ball back onto his pad, HUGE inside edge and onto the back pad! Umpire Venkat decides that's out.
I remember Billy Bowden giving Sarwan a shocker on our last tour of Australia that Im convinced was given out because Brett Lee ran off celebrating without bothering to look at the umpire. A yorker hit Sarwan on the ankle and was missing two sets of stumps let alone one.
I also remember Eddie Nicholls bizarrely giving Carl Hooper not out on the tv replay when he was clearly short of his ground against India in 2002.
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England V Aus. - 2nd test at OT in 1977. Randall was given out LBW by Bill Alley off Ray Bright - a real shocker.
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Darrell Harper, England in South Africa 2004/5 Flintoff to Gibbs/Dippenar not sure which one.
Took a massive edge and given not out.
Harper is hurrendous.
Took a massive edge and given not out.
Harper is hurrendous.
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Basil wrote:England V Aus. - 2nd test at OT. Randall was given out LBW by Bill Alley off Ray Bright - a real shocker.
Aussie bias
Amazing looking back that the ECB appointed an aussie to stand in home ashes tests (albeit one who emigrated here)
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JKLever wrote:Basil wrote:England V Aus. - 2nd test at OT. Randall was given out LBW by Bill Alley off Ray Bright - a real shocker.
Aussie bias
Amazing looking back that the ECB appointed an aussie to stand in home ashes tests (albeit one who emigrated here)
Bill Alley was nothing if not consistent - he turned down an appeal off Bright for a catch off Boycott down the leg side in the 4th test before Geoffrey had got to his 100th 100. Bright threw the most monumental strop
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Can someone please post the full article (I can't access Cricinfo at work).
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The umpire's word is final ... but wrong
Martin Williamson
November 22, 2007
After the howler which ended Kumar Sangakkara's innings in Hobart, we look at XI instances where the umpire got it wrong
Light relief for David Constant during the 1982 series © Getty Images
David Constant England v Pakistan 1982
Not the worst decision in itself, but one that started a smouldering fire that culminated in the Shakoor Rana-Mike Gatting face-off five years later. The victim was Pakistan's Sikander Bakht, who Constant gave out caught at short leg after a vociferous and united appeal from the England fielders. Replays showed he had missed the ball by some distance. The Pakistan side were deeply suspicious of Constant thereafter, and when they toured again in 1987, the PCB requested that he not be appointed to stand in any of the Tests. With a display of sheer pig-headedness, the England board brushed aside the request and the clock started ticking. The Pakistan manager branded Constant "a disgraceful person".
Shakeel Khan Pakistan v England, 1st Test, 1987-88
The 1987-88 Pakistan-England series is remembered for the Rana-Gatting face-off at Faisalabad, but the seeds of unrest had been sown by some atrocious umpiring at Lahore when Khan gave a string of dire decisions - it ran into double figures. The most infamous came when he gave Chris Broad caught behind to one that missed the outside edge by a good six inches, leading to Broad refusing to leave the middle until ushered off by Graham Gooch. The most bizarre was against Abdul Qadir, who he gave stumped before Bruce French had removed the bails.
Har Sharma North Zone v Australians 1969-70
If at first you don't succeed, try again. When North Zone's opener Vinay Lamba got a thick edge to spinner John Gleeson it seemed a clear-cut decision, only Sharma remained unmoved. The Australians, after a few moments of waiting, then launched a second appeal, with everyone joining it regardless of where they were on the field. Sharma decided weight of numbers was the key and gave Lamba out.
Bapu Joshi India v West Indies 5th Test 1948-49
India set about chasing 361 in even time in Bombay to level the series, and made a really good fist of things. With 15 minutes left they needed 21 runs. West Indies wasted time with drinks and field changes, but India were left requiring 11 off two overs. They got five off the first five balls and then, to the batsmen's disbelief, Joshi called time and whipped off the bails. Not only had he miscounted the number of balls in the over, but he had miscalculated the time as well. The West Indies fielders left the middle to jeers and cat-calls
Douglas Sang Hue West Indies v Pakistan 2nd Test 1976-77
Sang Hue had already made news in 1973-74 when he gave Alvin Kallicharran run-out in the Port-of-Spain Test, only to reverse the decision overnight, but three years later he reprieved Roy Fredericks when he appeared for all the world to be short of his ground when on 99. According to Imran Khan in his autobiography, Sang Hue turned to Mushtaq Mohammad and admitted that while Fredericks had been out "you don't have to live here".
BC Cooray Sri Lanka v England 2nd Test 2000-01
In Kandy, local umpire Cooray had what might politely be described as a shocker, and he saved his worst for the home side with as many as 15 dubious decisions. Sanath Jayasuriya's dismissal summed up how bad things were, slashing to Graham Thorpe at third slip ... the only problem being that the edge had flown into the ground on its way to the catcher. A livid Jayasuriya stormed off, his helmet reaching the boundary long before he did. Nasser Hussain was also reprieved three times on his way to a hundred. The sad thing is that Cooray was a top umpire but probably past his sell-by date. The public in Sri Lanka turned on him, nicknaming him "Bad Call" Cooray, and he retired admitting to have had "many sleepless nights after that match".
Another mistake from Javed Akhtar ... this time against England © Getty Images
Javed Akhtar England v South Africa 5th Test 1998
A performance which was so bad that it ended being caught up in the match-fixing row a couple of years later. The entire series was dogged with dissent over umpiring, and things came to a head in a nailbiting Leeds Test. Wisden referred to Akhtar's "four days of painful notoriety". He gave nine of 10 lbw decisions awarded during the match, eight of them against South Africa, of which seven were "dubious". In 2000, at the King Commission hearing into match fixing, Ali Bacher claimed that Akhtar had been paid by bookmakers; Akhtar countered by threatening to sue and saying: "I curse such filthy money. No one dared to contact me with such intentions like match-fixing or any other malpractice."
MV Nagendra India v England 4th Test 1976-77
As a Test batsman, Mike Brearley needed all the breaks he could get, so it is perhaps understandable when his usually clam exterior was ruffled when he edged Chandrasekhar to Viswanath at slip on what he believed was the half volley. "There was not another pair of eyes on the ground who thought it had carried," observed The Times. To make things worse, as he sat eating his lunch Nagendra came over and said: "Mr Brearley, I am very sorry. I knew it was not out, but I felt my finger going up and I just couldn't stop it."
Bill Bestwick Middlesex v Sussex 1936
A heavy drinker, Bestwick had to have a minder with a player to ensure he stayed off the beer, although more often that not he managed to give his sentinel the slip. After retiring, he became a respected umpire, but in 1936 he attracted the ire of Gubby Allen when he gave Denis Compton out llbw. Compton, 18, was making his first-class debut for Middlesex and batting at No. 11. A furious Allen remonstrated with Bestwick, who, in a refreshingly honest reply, explained that he was dying for a pee and that he would have wet himself had he not ended the innings.
Lloyd Barker West Indies v England 4th Test 1989-90
Another instance of an umpire being persuaded to change his mind. A ball from Curtly Ambrose appeared to flick Rob Bailey's thigh pad on its way through to Jeff Dujon. Barker appeared to have turned down the appeal but Viv Richards, who was at first slip, came charging down the pitch roaring appeals and Barker belatedly, and to Bailey's undisguised dismay, raised his finger. "The umpire wasn't going to give that but Richards created merry hell," yelled Tony Greig, commentating at the time. Wisden described Richard's "finger-flapping appeal" as "at best undignified and unsightly. At worst, it was calculated gamesmanship". Wisden Cricket Monthly referred to his "orgasmic gesticulations". "When I looked at the TV replays he had clearly missed it ... my angle and position told me he had hit it," Richards later admitted, but he added that while had had appealed "long and loud", the umpire was to blame. "It was up to him to retain his composure and make his decision."
David Shepherd England v Pakistan 2nd Test 2001
Shepherd proved that even the best umpires have their off days. At tea on the last day, England were 196 for 2 and on course for a draw. In the last session, they lost eight wickets, four to no-balls that the umpires failed to spot, even though the third umpire had flagged the point earlier in the day. Three of those errors came at Shepherd's end, and he was so upset when he later watched TV replays that he considered retirement. Some argued that at 60, he was on the slide. But the cricket world sprung to his defence, and Denis Rogers, chairman of the Australian Cricket Board, said: "Shep has a reputation as one of the finest umpires in the world, and that should not be destroyed because he has missed a few no-balls. It's precisely umpires of his status and quality that we need." When the first group of elite umpires was announced later that year, Shepherd was at their head.
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http://uk.cricinfo.com/columns/content/current/story/321553.html
What the hell did I post then ?? :?:
Oh well ... over to you JK !
PS - Just realized they're both same .... must be the late hour!!
Bon soir ...
What the hell did I post then ?? :?:
Oh well ... over to you JK !
PS - Just realized they're both same .... must be the late hour!!
Bon soir ...
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Cheers.
No mention of Billy costing Aust the 2005 Ashes then
No mention of Billy costing Aust the 2005 Ashes then
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In the late afternoon in the Jamaican sun, after SRW's magnificent 200 had lifted Australia to 500+ in 1995, BCL was gunned lbw to Paul Rieffel with a ball that pitched at least a foot outside leg stump, to leave the Windies 3 down in their 2nd dig and in deep sh!t. I still laugh when I see replays. Credit to BCL, all he did was gave a very brief shake of the head and tapped the pitch on the spot where the ball landed. But I'll take it.
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How about Kerr in 1975?
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End of over 26 (maiden) Australia 87/2 (lead by 49 runs)
A Nel 3-1-9-0
RT Ponting 0* (3b) JL Langer 29* (73b 5x4)
26.1 Langeveldt to Ponting, two runs, turned away to mid-wicket region,
Langer scampers through for the second
26.2 Langeveldt to Ponting, no run, good ball around the off stump,
defended on the front-foot
26.3 Langeveldt to Ponting, two runs, driven through covers for a couple
of runs
26.4 Langeveldt to Ponting, (noball) no run, Caught off a no-ball, short
delivery, Ponting rocks back and pulls flat, Rudolph jumps and
takes a brilliant one-handed catch, replay shows it was a close
call from Doctrove
I'm still trying to work out how you call a no ball when it isnt one ....
A Nel 3-1-9-0
RT Ponting 0* (3b) JL Langer 29* (73b 5x4)
26.1 Langeveldt to Ponting, two runs, turned away to mid-wicket region,
Langer scampers through for the second
26.2 Langeveldt to Ponting, no run, good ball around the off stump,
defended on the front-foot
26.3 Langeveldt to Ponting, two runs, driven through covers for a couple
of runs
26.4 Langeveldt to Ponting, (noball) no run, Caught off a no-ball, short
delivery, Ponting rocks back and pulls flat, Rudolph jumps and
takes a brilliant one-handed catch, replay shows it was a close
call from Doctrove
I'm still trying to work out how you call a no ball when it isnt one ....
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Billy Bowden giving Gilly out Ct behind in Sydney Jan 07 ....
He didnt walk ...He missed it ...Stoopid Farken Sheep Shagger
He didnt walk ...He missed it ...Stoopid Farken Sheep Shagger
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Only two of those decisions are from this decade. Weird, I could have sworn that umpiring standards are at all-time lows and that umpires never made mistakes until technology came in.
I'm also (pleasantly) surprised that SRT's shoulder decision wasn't listed.
I'm also (pleasantly) surprised that SRT's shoulder decision wasn't listed.
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But Ross,
Was the ball not going to hit the stumps in that SBW?
Was the ball not going to hit the stumps in that SBW?
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What about the one where Mark Waugh swivelled round and hit his wicket and was given not out.
Haven't time to look up the details.
Haven't time to look up the details.
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Err that was correct, he hit the stumps with his bat well after the shot was finished.
cronje being a sook doesn't change that it was the right call.
cronje being a sook doesn't change that it was the right call.
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Cronje being dead doesn't change that he was a sook either.
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please don't yell wrote:Err that was correct, he hit the stumps with his bat well after the shot was finished.
cronje being a sook doesn't change that it was the right call.
Absolute and total BS. He swung round, lost his balance and hit the stumps.
It was blatant cheating and any neutral umpire would have given him out.
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Mate know the rules first.
He had finished his shot an was not attempting a run so how was he out?
He had finished his shot an was not attempting a run so how was he out?
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please don't yell wrote:Mate know the rules first.
He had finished his shot an was not attempting a run so how was he out?
In the process of playing the shot he overbalanced. Is it so hard to comprehend?
By your limited reasoning, if a batsman has completed the the shot and then his foot slides back onto the stumps, it is not out.
Waugh was overbalnced by the shot and until he had regained his balance it was part of the shot.
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he was hit on the elbow he walked away from the pain and then dropped his bat onto the stumps.
he had finished his shot and was not attempting a run.
but of course you clearly remember it better even though you said you have to look up the details.....
he had finished his shot and was not attempting a run.
but of course you clearly remember it better even though you said you have to look up the details.....
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