Sachin and Inefficient/Biased Umpires
During the current tour of Sri Lanka Sachin Tendulkar has been literally shown the finger by the umpires every time! Poor guy, feel sorry for him. Apart from opposition bowlers he has to be careful of the umpires also. I guess most of the foreign umpires derive sadistic pleasure in showing him the finger. Maybe they feel that giving Sachin out earns them brownie points with the ICC!
If any statistician has the records to show how many times Sachin has been “umpired” out rather than have his wicket taken by the opposition it would reveal an abnormally high percentage. Maybe Sachin’s average would have been much higher than his current 54 and 44 or thereabouts in Tests one dayers respectively. It is tragic that the public is deprived of watching a player of Sachin’s class just due to the inefficiency of bumbling or biased umpires. Poor guy just smiles and walks off. It is so reminiscent of how players used to treat Pele during his heyday. He was the most roughly tackled football player probably the world has ever seen. Unfortunately for Sachin the rough tackles seem to be coming from the umpires!
Maybe Sachin should not carry his bat at all, maybe he should play with his legs – as it is the umpire is going to show him the finger if the ball touches his pads, regardless of whether the ball is going to hit the stumps or not.
The ICC should be progressive and let the third umpire take an informed decision based on TV replays and allow him to reverse the field umpires decision if it is blatantly unfair. This rule has been introduced in tennis and is doing wonders for the fairness of the game. The player just has to object to a line call and the TV replays decide the point in less than a minute. No major delay in the flow of the game and everyone is happy.
Hope people in control of the game see sense and change the rules before the game becomes more of a farce than a fair match!
If any statistician has the records to show how many times Sachin has been “umpired” out rather than have his wicket taken by the opposition it would reveal an abnormally high percentage. Maybe Sachin’s average would have been much higher than his current 54 and 44 or thereabouts in Tests one dayers respectively. It is tragic that the public is deprived of watching a player of Sachin’s class just due to the inefficiency of bumbling or biased umpires. Poor guy just smiles and walks off. It is so reminiscent of how players used to treat Pele during his heyday. He was the most roughly tackled football player probably the world has ever seen. Unfortunately for Sachin the rough tackles seem to be coming from the umpires!
Maybe Sachin should not carry his bat at all, maybe he should play with his legs – as it is the umpire is going to show him the finger if the ball touches his pads, regardless of whether the ball is going to hit the stumps or not.
The ICC should be progressive and let the third umpire take an informed decision based on TV replays and allow him to reverse the field umpires decision if it is blatantly unfair. This rule has been introduced in tennis and is doing wonders for the fairness of the game. The player just has to object to a line call and the TV replays decide the point in less than a minute. No major delay in the flow of the game and everyone is happy.
Hope people in control of the game see sense and change the rules before the game becomes more of a farce than a fair match!
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