qpeedore
SOTM Winner - July 2014
Hi guys, back for my usual occasional posting spree.
The World Cup is over, the Ashes are ongoing, India are making the West Indies look foolish, the Test Championship has begun. Some things change, some things don't (see: West Indies).
Some time ago the ICC decided that having home umpires might be seen as unfair to visiting opposition. For Tests at least. I believe in ODIs and T20Is they still do one home, one neutral. But with the review system now seemingly on the way to working out some of the early kinks, would it be fair to go the way of the shorter formats and allow home umpires again?
It's been proven in the first Ashes Test that even two neutral umpires can't decide out from not (although to Mr. Joel Wilson's credit, he DID only just receive news that he was appointed to the Elite Panel, nerves would have been present...Mr. Dar had much less excuses to choose from). Either way, the review system is in place and once we have the side on cameras at both ends, the front on camera, the edge mic, and ball tracking, can we at least see our homegrown umpires?
Discuss.
The World Cup is over, the Ashes are ongoing, India are making the West Indies look foolish, the Test Championship has begun. Some things change, some things don't (see: West Indies).
Some time ago the ICC decided that having home umpires might be seen as unfair to visiting opposition. For Tests at least. I believe in ODIs and T20Is they still do one home, one neutral. But with the review system now seemingly on the way to working out some of the early kinks, would it be fair to go the way of the shorter formats and allow home umpires again?
It's been proven in the first Ashes Test that even two neutral umpires can't decide out from not (although to Mr. Joel Wilson's credit, he DID only just receive news that he was appointed to the Elite Panel, nerves would have been present...Mr. Dar had much less excuses to choose from). Either way, the review system is in place and once we have the side on cameras at both ends, the front on camera, the edge mic, and ball tracking, can we at least see our homegrown umpires?
Discuss.