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| Why We Do Not Have An Elite Umpire Panel? |
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| Pitched By Cricket360 Reporter | |||||||
| Wednesday, 18 February 2009 | |||||||
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The first press conference that Sachin Tendulkar attended after coming back from Sri Lankan tour, he questioned the nature of umpiring in the matches. He was also not agreeable to the fact that umpires on the ground should decide, and suggested that the dubious or controversial decisions need to be referred to the third umpire.
After Venkatraghavan hung his boots; there has not been a single umpire from India who has made it to the category of the elite umpires promoted by the ICC. It indeed is ironic as even Pakistan has one umpire in this category, but India, which has quite a large number of talent pools, and a series of former cricketers officiating in various tournaments, none of them have been able to make it to the elite category. Does it mean that BCCI is not paying much attention to the craft of umpiring? If that is so then it indeed is a sorry state of affairs, as the manner in which the Indian cricket is progressing, the umpiring issue cannot be left in lurch just like that. J P Prakash, former Ranji trophy player from Karnataka, who had come into the reckoning, but could not make it to the elite list. Now there are only two umpires from India are there, but they are in the One-Day panel, they being, Saheba and Tarapore. With the manner in which Indian Premier League is spreading its tentacles and more and more international players are converging to it, the lack of umpires of international quality can harm the interests of the tournament. There is an urgent need to look into the manner in which the panel of umpiring is being constituted. We have S. Venkatraghavan who was one of the finest umpires ever produced and it is high time his services are utilized for creation of a large pool of umpires. May be, a system of gradation needs to be built up so that there are three different categories, one at the national, other state and third at district level and there needs to be a definite career progression from district to state to national level. A cricket academy has already been created, and therefore it is felt that an umpiring academy may also be created in India and celebrated umpires of the past may be invited as trainers, including Dickey Bird, David Shepherd, and let Venkatraghavan be made the president of the academy.
3.25 Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved."Newer news items:
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