angryangy
ICC Chairman
- Joined
- Oct 1, 2004
Cricket revolves around the umpire. It is sometimes said "cricket does not have rules, it has laws;" the umpires are there to apply the laws. Technically, the bowler and/or fielding side should appeal to the umpire for every method of getting a batsman out, but obviously, when the batsman is bowled or caught it is unnecessary and the batsman will likely leave the crease. Indeed occasionally, the batsman's conduct can decide his fate for him, just as a strong appeal from the fielding side can get a less than obvious wicket.Cricketman93 said:meh, they should scrap umps and just use hawk-eye, but the part of excitement in cricket is gone if a an umpire makes a wrong deisicion and the datsmen goes on to hit a double hundred or something. I think implementing hawk eye for desicions would be boring and that it would cost people to lose interest.