Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Umpire or Machine?who is trustworthy?


Cricket is a Glorious Game of Uncertainty.The traditional conventional Cricket is still the same as it was decades ago.what I mean is the way in which it played with a Bat,Ball,3 Stumps,gloves,Pads & a big ground to play. As is is today in the olden days also large number of people gathered in Stadiums & enjoyed the game with enormous amount of shouts& cheers from the Spectators.the additional attraction nowadays is the presence of Cheer Girls to add Masala to make the game more entertaining despite the enhanced cost of the game on the Cheer Girls. Notwithstanding Thad fact the Game is still played in the Traditional way,there had been many a changes to it in regard to the Umpiring & relating to the rules and the ways by which matches are decided to get a result.The game has become so much Result-oriented that the enormous Powers enjoyed by the Umpires have been cut drastically by Snatching a part of the Power from Umpires & handing them over to ElectronicMachines. Recently ,I had the good luck to rad an article written by one of the most distinguished Umpires of the game Mr.Dickie Bird. In fact,since a long time I have been dreaming about such an article from any renowned Umpire.Fortunately I got it now from ,perhaps,theBest Umpire of Cricket none other than Dickie Bird of England. Dickie Bird was the most accurate and reasonable Umpire whose decisions carried highest degree of Justification. He was almost a universally approved Ummpire liked by everyone including the Players. Believe it or not,when he retired from Umpiring Cricket he was given a sent off at the Lords a degree ahead of the farewell given to the Legend Sir.Donald Bradman. Cricketters from all over the world liked Dickie Bird. An event narrated by Dickie Bird himself is as under: According to him one day he had to enter a London Bus to travel as his car was suddenly out of Order needing admission to a service centre.The conductor came to him to give ticket.A look at the Conductor revealed that he was Wearing a white cap identical to the one Dickie Bird used to wear.He asked the conductor where from he got it. The reply from the conductor was very much amusing to Mr.Dickie Bird.He was telling that he had snatched the Cap from the head of Dickie Bird at Lords when there was commotion in the ground after the end of a Test match.He Also said since then he used to wear the cap as a precious possession.Mr.Dickie Bird was very much pleased to note that how much the people loved him & cricket. On another occasion one Gentleman asked Dickie Bird whom he had considered as the best Umpire in the World today MrDickie Bird said he can not answer the question as nowadays Umpiring is being done by Electronic machines. So one could easily realize how much the Standard of Umpiring has deteriorated from the Olden Days. In the olden days also cricket was played& enjoyed by many.The Umpires had perfect& enormous Powers to decide all Aspects of a match. Did they not play World Cup in 1975& later on? Was there the presence of a Third Umpire then?why & how the Umpires Turned out into unworthy of making decisions?Can any one say for sure of the electronic machines are 100% accurate? Before concluding I wish to request ICC TO RECONSIDER THE NEED FOR THIRD Machine Umpire& do away with it especially Because all decisions are equally applicable to both Playing Teams. Similary the methods of deciding results for matches also should be dispensed with and instead equal points are Awarded to both the Playing Teams in the event of Rain or other natural reasons resulting in abandoning of games SreedharanMundanat, 1St May 2014, 11-15 hrs(IST) n

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  1. The Australians who enjoyed Top Rankings of ICC for a long time had to slip from the ladder to lower ranks.That is now History.
    They after hard work have again climbed up the ladder & is now number 1& 2 respectively in Tests& ODIs
    Now all are interested &plunged in Pepsi IPL(Indian T20 League).
    Later on after this HUNGAMA we hope M.S.Dhoni would also rise to the occasion &
    start climbing the Ladder up from their present rankings of 1,2&5 respectively in T20,ODI& Test to bring back the lost Glory.this ,indeed is a Herculian Task.But if anyone could undertake this task it is Dhoni.but at the same time it is regrettable that attempts are also being made to cast shadow on his Image.
    SreedharanMundanat

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