Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
It is important to note that umpires werent there when cricket initially started. Players agreed on decisions and took each others words for it.
Then the men came on for disputes and not making all decisions.
And then the modern game has seen umpires take all decisions and now ironically most decisions being taken away from them when we cant even take the word of a neutral as it may not be accurate for television replays.
Sure take the benefit of television replays and umpires for disputes but do you really need so many decisions to be made even by the umpire when a player knows he nicks it or any thing?
It is an idealistic scenario which is not going to happen but which is how we played our cricket in the back yard. If we were batting and heard the clink behind, we knew that was out and even if the bowlers didnt know it, we put declare it and that was that.
Then the men came on for disputes and not making all decisions.
And then the modern game has seen umpires take all decisions and now ironically most decisions being taken away from them when we cant even take the word of a neutral as it may not be accurate for television replays.
Sure take the benefit of television replays and umpires for disputes but do you really need so many decisions to be made even by the umpire when a player knows he nicks it or any thing?
It is an idealistic scenario which is not going to happen but which is how we played our cricket in the back yard. If we were batting and heard the clink behind, we knew that was out and even if the bowlers didnt know it, we put declare it and that was that.