debut: 11/30/17 8:11 PM
13,010 runs
In reply to sgtdjones
the standard of umpiring in the cpl has not been that poor. the reason we can itemize umpires like Banwari and previously Patrick Guistard is because their inept performances contrasted so much to the performances of the other umpires. The only other controversial call was Reon King last year telling TKR they had the option to play with three floodlights instead of all in a night fixture even though the two standing on field umpires, dugid and butler thought that the lighting conditions made it impossible for play to continue safely, and even that was a correct call according to the rules, and the blame really has to go to the ground staff who took an eternity to restore power. That is the only decision in my mind that has swung the pendulum of a game decisively in the direction of one team in a playoff.
Yet the CPL, in a baffling move, appointed a rookie umpire to a playoff.
the standard of umpiring in the cpl has not been that poor. the reason we can itemize umpires like Banwari and previously Patrick Guistard is because their inept performances contrasted so much to the performances of the other umpires. The only other controversial call was Reon King last year telling TKR they had the option to play with three floodlights instead of all in a night fixture even though the two standing on field umpires, dugid and butler thought that the lighting conditions made it impossible for play to continue safely, and even that was a correct call according to the rules, and the blame really has to go to the ground staff who took an eternity to restore power. That is the only decision in my mind that has swung the pendulum of a game decisively in the direction of one team in a playoff.
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