sometimes, good umpires also make mistakes. When the mistake results in a drastic change in the match’s result, we make a huge hue and cry, the world as we know it ends, and we contemplate retirement from cricket observation. but, when the same umpire makes a mistake, which has nothing to do with the eventual outcome of the game, but only deals with a provision in the rulebook regarding when to call time on a [...]

Darrel Harper is in a weird mood these days. It’s almost as if he is aware of how much the world hates him, and he is out on a mission to piss the world off even more. Maybe that is exactly the case. We all are aware of how stupendously shitty his umpiring is these days. Add to that the balls of the ICC to appoint him as the third umpire, which in these, the [...]

  I am not a big fan of dissent. But for one umpiring blunder today, I support it. Yuvraj should have taken his club and batted the umpire till his face turned the colour of his shirt. There was a huge inside edge and the umpire couldn’t see it and gave him leg before! I could see it on live TV and the umpire couldn’t. Unacceptable. This is more unacceptable than Pragyan Ojha replacing Piyush [...]