No neutral umpires in the test series

[Gollum]

Today's umpiring was quite biased in favor of the home side. A bit of a dampener this. Tucker, Reiffel, Oxenford all Aussies. ICC could have done better IMO. DRS is still there but marginal calls may go in favor of the home team players. Even more difficult task now. 

 

[Gollum]

If commentators, broadcasters from other countries can be allowed, why not match officials? Not easy for anyone but life goes on, just follow the rules of the authorities and stay in the bio-secure bubble. At least Aus/Eng have 3 elite panel umpires, what will Ind do against Eng in 2 months time? 

 

List of Elite Panel of ICC Umpires

Umpire	Date of Birth	Age as of 8 December 2020	Year Appointed	Tests[8]	ODIs[9]	T20Is[10]	Country
Richard Illingworth	23 August 1963	57 years, 65 days	2013	47	68	16	England
Bruce Oxenford	5 March 1960	60 years, 278 days	2012	59	96	20	Australia
Aleem Dar	6 June 1968	52 years, 185 days	2004	132	210	46	Pakistan
Marais Erasmus	27 February 1964	56 years, 285 days	2010	62	92	26	South Africa
Rod Tucker	28 August 1964	56 years, 102 days	2010	71	84	35	Australia
Kumar Dharmasena	24 April 1971	49 years, 228 days	2011	58	89	22	Sri Lanka
Richard Kettleborough	15 March 1973	47 years, 268 days	2011	64	89	22	England
Nitin Menon	2 November 1983	37 years, 36 days	2020	3	24	16	India
Paul Reiffel	19 April 1966	54 years, 233 days	2013	48	70	16	Australia
Chris Gaffaney	30 November 1975	45 years, 39 days	2015	33	68	22	New Zealand
Michael Gough	18 December 1979	40 years, 356 days	2019	14	62	14	England
Joel Wilson	30 December 1966	53 years, 344 days	2019	19	66	26	West Indies

 

Edited December 8, 2020 by Gollum

[putrevus]

If players can do it, umpires can do it too. This cannot be an excuse  to field home umpires.

[Tattieboy]

33 minutes ago, Gollum said:

If commentators, broadcasters from other countries can be allowed, why not match officials? Not easy for anyone but life goes on, just follow the rules of the authorities and stay in the bio-secure bubble. At least Aus/Eng have 3 elite panel umpires, what will Ind do against Eng in 2 months time? 

 

List of Elite Panel of ICC Umpires

Umpire	Date of Birth	Age as of 8 December 2020	Year Appointed	Tests[8]	ODIs[9]	T20Is[10]	Country
Richard Illingworth	23 August 1963	57 years, 65 days	2013	47	68	16	England
Bruce Oxenford	5 March 1960	60 years, 278 days	2012	59	96	20	Australia
Aleem Dar	6 June 1968	52 years, 185 days	2004	132	210	46	Pakistan
Marais Erasmus	27 February 1964	56 years, 285 days	2010	62	92	26	South Africa
Rod Tucker	28 August 1964	56 years, 102 days	2010	71	84	35	Australia
Kumar Dharmasena	24 April 1971	49 years, 228 days	2011	58	89	22	Sri Lanka
Richard Kettleborough	15 March 1973	47 years, 268 days	2011	64	89	22	England
Nitin Menon	2 November 1983	37 years, 36 days	2020	3	24	16	India
Paul Reiffel	19 April 1966	54 years, 233 days	2013	48	70	16	Australia
Chris Gaffaney	30 November 1975	45 years, 39 days	2015	33	68	22	New Zealand
Michael Gough	18 December 1979	40 years, 356 days	2019	14	62	14	England
Joel Wilson	30 December 1966	53 years, 344 days	2019	19	66	26	West Indies

 

The best International panel Indian umpires will officiate 

[coffee_rules]

This news neutralizes the Home ump bias a little bit

 

 

[coffee_rules]

If we want to complain, even MR is Australian 

[Gollum]

8 hours ago, Tattieboy said:

The best International panel Indian umpires will officiate 

Our umpires are simply not good enough. Disgrace that we haven't been able to produce a world class umpire after Venkataraghavan's retirement. 

[putrevus]

We have enough problem with neutral umpires , now we want to add home umpires to the mix. LBW and umpires call nonsense will rear its ugly head again.

[Tattieboy]

7 hours ago, Gollum said:

Our umpires are simply not good enough. Disgrace that we haven't been able to produce a world class umpire after Venkataraghavan's retirement. 

If international cricket wants a bigger pool of elite standard umpires   then things like exchange for example English counties and Ranji Trophy . Every country needs to start working together if we want cricket to survive . Scottish international panel umpires could work in England and Ireland another example . 

[Franco Vazquez]

So all the leagues can have neutral umpires but not Test series. 

[coffee_rules]

2 minutes ago, Franco Vazquez said:

So all the leagues can have neutral umpires but not Test series. 

It was the same even in Odi and T20i series. Covid warrants home umpires only

[Gollum]

These Aus umpires as so biased. In the Eng-WI series local umpires favored the home side a lot. In 1st test WI won after 5 overturned LBW decisions. Pathetic by ICC, don't care how good the elite panel umpires are, it isn't an impossible task to have neutral umpires for a marquee series like this one. 

Edited December 11, 2020 by Gollum