Re: World Cup Final Umpires
1975 @ Lord's - Bird and Spencer 1979 @ Lord's - Bird and Meyer 1983 @ Lord's - Bird and Meyer 1987 @ Calcutta - Gupta and Mahboob Shah 1992 @ Melbourne - Bucknor and Aldridge 1996 @ Lahore - Bukcnor and Shepherd 1999 @ Lord's - Bukcnor and Shepherd 2003 @ Johannesburg - Bucknor and Shepherd
I think Billy Bowden and Aleem Dar deserve to stand in the final at Barbadoes. But I also understand that ICC would like to give Bucknor a chance to stand in his home country. Given current form and Bucknor's clear miss today to Gibbs, he may not be a good choice but I guess he will get the spot anyway. I just hope that Aleem is at the other end. He is after all the next best to Taufel who actually made a couple of blunders in the first semi final yesterday.
Bowden is such overrated trash. Aleem Dar will make the cut hopefully.