Umpiring Issues once again...
I know this has come up a few times already this season and no more prominently than in the charles shaw debacle, but this weekend in the Wesley vs Geelong College game there were a few shocking LBW decisions given all by the same umpire. I counted 6 LBWs by him in the Wesley innings and 2 in the Geelong innings. Notable ones were Kitchen from Geelong being given out LBW when it hit him on the thigh pad when he was pulling. The Wesley boys didnt even appeal they just went oooh as it hit him hard and within a second the umpire stuck his finger up. As you might expect Kitchen was furious as he was on 82 at that point. Another notable one is Hall who was on 77 and was also given LBW. Once again this was clearly not out as he is a lefty facing a right arm over the wicket bowler and batting a good metre out his crease with a good stride forward. In my opinion these 2 decsions cost both these players tons.
Another issue was that there were many occasions during the game were the overs were only 5 balls as the umpires couldnt count to 6. The problem is that in this game we had 2 incompitent umpires, in previous games we have had one poor ump and one good one which helped balance things out.
I know these guys are mostly top blokes but when it comes to the point where it ruins the game surely questions must be asked???
I know this has come up a few times already this season and no more prominently than in the charles shaw debacle, but this weekend in the Wesley vs Geelong College game there were a few shocking LBW decisions given all by the same umpire. I counted 6 LBWs by him in the Wesley innings and 2 in the Geelong innings. Notable ones were Kitchen from Geelong being given out LBW when it hit him on the thigh pad when he was pulling. The Wesley boys didnt even appeal they just went oooh as it hit him hard and within a second the umpire stuck his finger up. As you might expect Kitchen was furious as he was on 82 at that point. Another notable one is Hall who was on 77 and was also given LBW. Once again this was clearly not out as he is a lefty facing a right arm over the wicket bowler and batting a good metre out his crease with a good stride forward. In my opinion these 2 decsions cost both these players tons.
Another issue was that there were many occasions during the game were the overs were only 5 balls as the umpires couldnt count to 6. The problem is that in this game we had 2 incompitent umpires, in previous games we have had one poor ump and one good one which helped balance things out.
I know these guys are mostly top blokes but when it comes to the point where it ruins the game surely questions must be asked???
