Warne on the umpires and ending ODIs

[aussie1st]

Releasing his plan for the future of the game, Warne said umpire salaries should be increased while he criticised South African official Rudi Koertzen, flamboyant New Zealander Billy Bowden and Australia's Daryl Harper.

"The standard of umpiring is as low as I've known it in 20 years," Warne wrote in his column for The Times.

"Yes, it is a difficult job and technology exposes any mistakes, but some of the performances in the Ashes series so far have been pretty ordinary.

"Players will accept that the odd bad decision gets through now and again. At the moment, there are just too many."

Warne, a vocal supporter of the Twenty20 format, also called for an end to one-day internationals.

"This is a big call, but cricket evolves and the 50-over game has passed its sell-by date," he said.

"It's amazing to think that after the Ashes series England and Australia play seven one-day games, which take about a month.

"Sorry, but that's just greed on the part of administrators. From now on, we should be playing Tests and Twenty20 internationals, with a Twenty20 World Cup every two years."

He also reckons batsmen should be banned from switch-hitting.

"If switch-hitting cannot be banned, then the leg-before ruling must be tweaked so that a batsman changing his stance has a second off stump," Warne said.

Umpiring standards at 20-year low: Warne

About time someone spoke up about the poor standard of umpiring. Thought he would give more praise to Taufel.

Taking out ODI would create too much of a gap between T20 and Test cricket. You would go from smashing attacks at 10 an over to a Test match where your scoring is more in the 3 an over range. What we need to do is cut down the length of the ODI series not get rid of it altogether.

 

[Howsie]

Yea getting rid of 50 over cricket all together is not something I'm in favour of. They just have to be cut down, in NZ we still get massive crowds to One Day games and they still seem very popular.

I have to agree with Warne about the umpiring though, I think it's time for a massive clean-out. To many of these guys have been around for too long if you ask me. Bring in some new guy's (Test Umpires that is).

 

[Biggy]

Drop 50 over Cricket all together...? Sometimes Warney thinks he's bigger than the game itself.

 

[smssia0112]

He's only expressing his opinions, and I can't say I disagree with him to be honest. I like ODI cricket and don't want to see it die but it seems rather inevitable to me and it seems like it would help test cricket if Twenty20 replaced ODI as the limited overs format of the game to try to eliminate the snoozefest that are 7 match ODI series.

 

[Ollie_H]

I don't agree with the dropping ODI cricket, I just don't think there should be as many played, having a 7 ODI series after 5 Ashes Test matches is a bit much, especially as they finish about the day before the CT starts. The officials worry about player burn out but then do nothing to stop it!

The umpiring I do also agree with to an extent, but I don't agree with banning the switch hit, I just feel that if it's played the wide rule should just be completely thrown out the window for that ball, there are some silly little things like that, that I feel need to be changed.

 

[angryangy]

Yeah, I think it's about compromise. If they just keep squeezing cricket in, the Tests, which are the least economical use of 5 days, will be the first against the wall. I don't think it's the only answer, but few have actually stood up and said "this is how the future of cricket should be".

 

[Themer]

All I think that they need to do for the shorter format of the game is play 3 ODI's followed by two Twenty Twenty's preferably all of the matches played within 2 or three weeks.

Start off with the first ODI match on a Saturday with the second a day night match during the week most likely a Wednesday. The final ODI can then be played at the weekend either Saturday of Sunday. For the Twenty/20's follow a similar formula of having a day night midweek match with the final one at the weekend.

I think that would be workable and would get rid of these ridiculously long tours without the overburn of too many games within a short period of time.

If they want you could probably add another Twenty/20 just after the last.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

i would like to see them meld together limited over formats in one series.

7 game series = 4 ODIs and 3 twenty20s
or something similar to that.

yes ODI cricket is slightly more about building and innings but only slightly more. It's rare you actually get a very well built ODI innings, usually it's just a slightly more controlled slog fest than you'd get in twenty20 when someone makes a big score. so for me they are similar enough to band together, keep the stats seperate but it's all limited over cricket.

 

[irottev]

I don't think the umpiring is the worst in the last 20 yrs, that's going a bit far, it's just we have all the technology to show them up nowadays. We need to start using technology. Warne's right though. Recently the umpiring has looked really really bad. Probably a combo of bad calls, bad umpires and lots of hawkeye/snicko etc. Something needs to be done.

 

[AbhishekS]

Shane Warne is simply over reacting

We cannot completely drop 50 Overs Cricket.
Instead, we must start Pro40 Kinds of International matches too