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They make really bad decisions.
They make really bad decisions.
Pakistani umpire Shakoor Rana’s affair with controversy was long, lasting and often passionate.
In 1978, when India resumed cricketing ties with Pakistan after a 17 year hiatus, Rana, the officiating umpire, warned Mohinder Amarnath for running on to the danger area during his follow through. An incensed Sunil Gavaskar, the vice-captain of the side, walked up to Rana and openly charged him with allowing Imran Khan and Sarfraz Nawaz to overstep while bowling at the Indian batsmen. The issue was resolved diplomatically – not exactly to Gavaskar’s liking – given the high profile political implications of the tour. It was the first of Rana’s many major brushes with the touring cricketers.
In December 1984, during a Test match at Karachi, the normally cheerful New Zealand captain Jeremy Coney threatened to take his side off the field after an appeal against Javed Miandad had been turned down by the same umpire.
Speaking from the commentary box years later, Ravi Shastri recalled his first tour of Pakistan in 1982-83. “Imran and Sarfraz would make the ball swing, and then there were those two umpires, Khizer Hayat and Shakoor Rana. It was like playing a four-pronged pace attack.”
Bruce Oxenford I think?Who is that prat with the arm guard thing?
IMO he was alright for a lot of his career, but should have retired a few years earlier.Bucknor was ****.
Myth imo. He had plenty of shockers all throughout his career... It's just that people associate him with Sydney 08 so much that everything before gets overshadowed.IMO he was alright for a lot of his career, but should have retired a few years earlier.
You may be thinking of Steve Randall? His offences weren't against women.There was this Australian umpire in the Indian tour of West Indies in 1997who didn't give any lbws no matter how plumb. Later, in life he was sent to jail for some crime against women. There was another West Indian umpire in that series who also never gave any lbws. It was frustrating. Neither were biased towards either team, just plain bad.
It is, isn't it?His cricket and professional careers ended when he was convicted in August 1999 of 15 separate counts of ***ual assault against nine schoolgirls of ages 10-12 while teaching at a Catholic primary school between 1981 and 1982.[2][3][4] He was sentenced to four years jail with a two-year minimum, and was released on parole in May 2002.[2]
Wow, terrible stuff.