Switchblade Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 Asoka de Silva, whose decision-making has come in for intense criticism during the World Cup, will not officiate in a couple of key group games that he was originally marked for. de Silva is the only umpire among the 18 deployed whose success percentage in reviewed decisions is less than 50%. He was supposed to have been one of the on-field umpires for Thursday's crucial match between England and West Indies, and he was also the third umpire for the India-West Indies game. Instead, according to ICC's revised schedule, he will be the fourth umpire in the Ireland-Netherlands match on Friday, and will be an on-field umpire in the Zimbabwe-Kenya game on Sunday. Both those games are inconsequential, with all four teams already out of the World Cup. The ICC has said the move was necessitated by the fact that they did not want their best umpires, like Taufel, standing in matches of lesser importance. "It was part of the re-organising for the last part of the group stage, to ensure the in-form umpires are on the field and in the third umpire's room for these crucial matches," Dave Richardson, the ICC general manager said. de Silva's place in Thursday's match between England and West Indies will be taken by Bruce Oxenford - originally listed as the fourth umpire in that game - while Simon Taufel will be the third umpire. For the India-West Indies match, Taufel and Steve Davies will be the on-field umpires, with Oxenford the third umpire. de Silva has had a poor World Cup so far, with several of his decisions being overturned by the Decision Review System: of the seven times his decisions have been challenged, only three times has his original call stood. One of those three instances was the lbw decision against Ireland's Gary Wilson in the match against West Indies. Wilson challenged the call, and replays clearly showed the ball had struck his pad outside the line of off when he was attempting a shot, but de Silva refused to change his decision, a move that was strongly criticised by Ireland captain William Porterfield. Had that decision been changed, as it should have been, de Silva's score in reviewed decisions would have been two correct calls out of seven. The changes in the umpiring schedule England v West Indies Originally - Asoka de Silva and Steve Davis, Shahvir Tarapore (third), Bruce Oxenford (fourth) Revised - Bruce Oxenford and Steve Davis, Simon Taufel (third), Shahvir Tarapore (fourth) Ireland v Netherlands Originally - Simon Taufel and Ian Gould, Kumar Dharmasena (third), Billy Doctrove (fourth) Revised - Billy Doctrove and Ian Gould, Kumar Dharmasena (third), Asoka de Silva (fourth) Australia v Pakistan Originally - Tony Hill and Marais Erasmus, Nigel Llong (third), Tyron Wijewardena (fourth) Revised - Tony Hill and Marais Erasmus, Tyron Wijewardena (third), Billy Bowden (fourth) Zimbabwe v Kenya Originally - Billy Doctrove and Kumar Dharmasena, Ian Gould (third), Simon Taufel (fourth) Revised - Asoka de Silva and Kumar Dharmasena, Ian Gould (third), Billy Doctrove (fourth) India v West Indies Originally - Steve Davis and Bruce Oxenford, Asoka de Silva (third), Shahvir Tarapore (fourth) Revised - Steve Davis and Simon Taufel, Bruce Oxenford (third), Shahvir Tarapore (fourth) http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc_cricket_worldcup2011/content/current/story/506498.html
Iconoclast Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 What about Harper and Doctrove ? Three stooges of horrible umpiring these guys are.
punjabi_khota Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 Less than 50% :omg: Tossing a coin to give decisions will do better :WTF:
punjabi_khota Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 Wow there is a BOMB of match still left, Kenya Vs Zimbabwe with De Silva officiating :yay: Gonna get up at 3 am for that game :acute:
jibranpatel15 Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 i am surprised to see that Amish Saheba has not made bad decesions yet in this tournament.
flamy Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 i am surprised to see that Amish Saheba has not made bad decesions yet in this tournament. i havent seen that idiot yet. hopefully he is not there for any of our matches
vpg0002 Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 Hope SL board will not come and cry foul play. ;-)
gult Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 This guy should be removed from the 'elite' panel. He consistently gives wrong decisions in every match.
King Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 Thank god for that, this man hasn't improved despite standing in so many games. In fact he was sacked as ICC umpire after stuffing up often but I don't understand how he made it back though... I feel sorry for him if this is his livelihood but he has to start making better decisions or upgrade his thought process. Perhaps go through the umpiring basics again or practice more... I'm not sure but he needs to get better.
ganeshran Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 As someone said, tossing a coin would give a more accurate result :hysterical:
Ultimate_Game Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 He totally screwed Ireland against WI. That decision was even worse than Bowden's Bell decision. All Ashoka had to do was see that batsman was playing a shot and he wasn't even able to figure that out even though everyone else was able to see that :headshake:
Zap_Brannigan Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 BCCI suggested replacements for Ashoka :P Where is this from?When was this taken?
ali0786 Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Finally a good decision by ICC, but it would have been even better had they removed him from all matches. Ashocka, Doctrove, and Harper should never umpire again.
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