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Which Was the Worst Possible Umpiring Decision That You Have Seen

ImpatientLime

International Regular
Hayden and Symonds got away with absolute murder early on in their innings in the 2006/07 Melbourne Ashes test. Hoggard in particular was robbed on more than one occasion by the umpire after his inswingers had appeared to of done for Hayden.
 

weldone

Hall of Fame Member
...worst possible umpiring decision has to be some big mistake by a third umpire...

How can a third umpire press the wrong button in spite of all the evidences in front of him suggesting otherwise? I can sympathize with the on-field umpires most of the times (except soem obvious cases like teh Bucknor test match)...
 

JBMAC

State Captain
Worst Umpiring decision for me is easy....Ian Meckiff being "called" by, I think, Col Egar at a gabba test. It was a set up. They(the acb) wanted him out of the team and this way they got rid of him permanently. A real travesty.
 

Bun

Banned
Yep, I'm going for slowest half century ever. To be fair I'm just starting to pick up the pace.

Dunno if this one's been mentioned yet but this decision upset me a lot.

Unsporting cricket by the West Indies - Dean Jones bizarre run out - YouTube

Haven't seen it for years. I was under the impression it was technically a wrong decision but looking at the replay now seems Deano actually ran back to try to make his ground. Does that make any difference?
I think the rules were changed after that match. Not sure though. Anyway if it was not illegal, I wouldn't put any blame on West Indies players as the umpire had signalled no ball immediately and the batsman just didn't watch him.
 

Bun

Banned
Also funny is the uploader's comment as well

Can you believe this ****, George Sharp sure made some total howlers in his career, this one has to be number one- Ponting given out LBW even though he hits the ball straight to ground and it flies quickly to the slips, yet out LBW! Never hit the pad at all!!!! UMPIRING FAIL! Possible Indian cheating? Bribed the umpire maybe? Who really knows, Azharuddin was captain after all.....I'm trying to think of a way to put some Tendulkar fail in to this description, gonna have to come back later after some creative thought.....at least Australia didn't cry to the Aussie cricket board and threaten to go home after such a crap decision, like India in 2008, you just man up and get on with it. I wonder which team was playing in the spirit of the game in this 1998 test match? Yet some Indians have the nerve to call Gilchrist a cheat for appealing against Dravid in Sydney....

:lol: That's some baiting man! Genius..
 

Bun

Banned
haha, geez worse than I remembered. The worst on a day of shyte decisions.

EDIT: Oh man, how bad was Chauhan's action?
I loved his action when I was a kid back then. Had got a name among my friends for imitating bowler's actions and mannerisms back then and Chauhan's action was my trump card.
 

Top_Cat

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I loved his action when I was a kid back then. Had got a name among my friends for imitating bowler's actions and mannerisms back then and Chauhan's action was my trump card.
Actually, it was pretty glorious with his arms high above his head like that, like a magician about to do a reveal. It was when it came time to deliver the ball that the problems happened....
 
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Burgey

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I think the rules were changed after that match. Not sure though. Anyway if it was not illegal, I wouldn't put any blame on West Indies players as the umpire had signalled no ball immediately and the batsman just didn't watch him.
Nah he was walking off. Was only when the fielder moved towards the stumps that Border shouted to him to get back.

I thought the rule at the time was you couldn't be run out off a no ball unless attempting a run.
 

robelinda

International Vice-Captain
Nah he was walking off. Was only when the fielder moved towards the stumps that Border shouted to him to get back.

I thought the rule at the time was you couldn't be run out off a no ball unless attempting a run.
Indeed that was the rule, and it still is, the umps just didn't know it. Useless. The laws certainly weren't changed after that game, more like the umpires got a LESSON in umpiring from Bob Simpson.

WEST INDIES UMPIRES CHEATING- WORST UMPIRES ON THE PLANET - POOR DEAN JONES.. - YouTube
 

Top_Cat

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I dunno mate, when Simpson pointed out that they had mis-interpreted the run-out law, Cummerbatch claimed he knew it but that he thought Jones was attempting a run. They were either malicious or incompetant; they knew it and happily sawed Jones off for whatever reason (possibly unrelated but Jones middling absolutely everything at that time) or they didn't and made **** up to save face.
 
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robelinda

International Vice-Captain
There's no way any sane person would think Jones was attempting a run, unless all they saw was the very last second of Jones scrambling back to his crease, he was almost of the square with his bat under his arm, they must have been blind. The WI team were going for the run out as soon as he was walking off, I cannot believe there wasn't a single person on the field with a hint of common sense and sportsmanship, but it has to be said that Viv Richards was hardly a model of sportsmanship....he was big on intimidating home WI umpires.
 

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