Neutral Umpire System - Do we need it any more?

[drainpipe32]

Home umpires could be used for Ashes

It seems the ICC has a lot of faith in the UDRS. Would love to see this, as I feel umpires have it tough travelling all over the world, and never get to see their home team play. Plus, Simon Taufel doesn't get to umpire the best matches going around

Only thing is, I would prefer it if the Ashes were played without the UDRS.

 

[MaD]

I don't even feel that we need umpires at all...

 

[TumTum]

We probably don't need them, but it will raise a lot of questions from all the visiting teams.

Don't think its a good idea...

 

[angryangy]

They could have an umpire too!

 

[Mercules]

If we get Daryl Harper for the Ashes

 

[MUFC1987]

If we get Daryl Harper for the Ashes

This was my first thought coming into this thread.

On the whole though, the best are the best, so I don't see why we can't have Taufel for example during the Ashes.

 

[Paki007]

its a very good idea to have nuetral umpiring because sometimes decisions have not been given justified

 

[JD10]

All we need is two dummies who can count 1-6 and see if someone steps over the line :laugh

 

[rocky_g]

If we get Daryl Harper for the Ashes

Then he will be accompanied by Amish Saheba and Ashoka D Silva.

 

[aussie1st]

Hope it happens as about time we got to see Taufel in a Test match, hes becoming our ODI specialist umpire as that is the only time I get to see him.

 

[Robelinda]

Just shows that even with e review system human errors can still happen. Give the reviews some time, most shockers have been eliminated which we all want to see.

 

[Animator!]

They aren't neccessary for the whole 'home team, home umpire, cheating' thing that went on in the past. I just think if we took it away then there would always be the possibility that home umpires who made poor/wrong decisions would always be accused of cheating. Which would just damage the game. So it's a far more sensible policy to leave it as it is, so nobody can accuse umpires of anything but incompetence.

 

[irottev]

I don't think we need them anymore with the review system in place. Another plus of having it.

 

[Cricketman]

I think the whole no ball thing can be completely robotized. Would be pretty easy i'd imagine to have a simple tracker that can be set in place similar to the foot fault buzzer we see in tennis tournaments.

I can see the 'beauty' of human error in LBWs and faint edges behind, but it should not happen for no-balls. We should make them a 100% certainty.

 

[drainpipe32]

Cricketman - I love you.

That's one thing I've been thinking about for ages, having a monitor similar to that in tennis that can see over no balls. That way, the umpires can pay more attention to the actual delivery rather than having to look up from the crease to check if it's a no ball and then see the delivery.