Question: For committing such blatant mistakes what exactly is the punishment to umpires? How come we only hear of players being suspended but not much about what is done to umpires?
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Question: For committing such blatant mistakes what exactly is the punishment to umpires? How come we only hear of players being suspended but not much about what is done to umpires?
FYI: Performance of each umpire is reviewed at the end of the year (with the help of captain's match report after each game) and on the basis of how good they were they can be kicked out of the Elite panel in special case if the core body of ICC votes again umpire, he can also be suspended immediately. In core body each test playing nation has 1 vote.
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This is obviously a wrong approach. the captain's reports are useless because the report of the dueling captains will neutralize each other. One more reason why BCCI should flex its muscle and get some sense back into ICC.
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Players are not suspended for making mistakes, they are suspended for being racist (if proven). If players make mistakes, they lose the game, or get demoted to A team.
Likewise, the umpire will be punished if he was racist if proven (like darrel hair, although his punishment was not for being racist).
If umpires make mistakes, theyll be demoted off the elite panel to umpiring low profile games (provided they are wrong on a consistent basis or do something very stupid like what happened at the world cup final). This happened to darrel hair for the way he butchered the oval test and then demanded 500 grand for it.
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**Players are not suspended for making mistakes, they are suspended for being racist (if proven). **If players make mistakes, they lose the game, or get demoted to A team.
Likewise, the umpire will be punished if he was racist if proven (like darrel hair, although his punishment was not for being racist).
If umpires make mistakes, theyll be demoted off the elite panel to umpiring low profile games (provided they are wrong on a consistent basis or do something very stupid like what happened at the world cup final). This happened to darrel hair for the way he butchered the oval test and then demanded 500 grand for it.
Players are suspended not only for being racist. They are suspended for showing dissent and a whole lot of other things. Rashid Latif was suspended coz he did not say that he had grounded the ball.
Steve Bucknor has been consistent in giving out wrong decisions agains the Indians. Why is he still in the elitist panel. This amply shows that there is something wrong in the way promotions are handled for the elitist umpires/ demotions..