Wednesday, February 07, 2007

How we can make life a little more comfortable for our Umpires.


You know how of late our ICC umpires haven't really been performing up to the mark? So i was thinking of some things that we could do to get them to be a little more friendly and a little less um blind. So i made a list of all the things that I would want if i were an umpire. Lets see: firstly a chair. You cant expect someone to stand in the same spot for 5 freakin days. Oh and also since its so hot (most days) i would need air conditioning. So maybe like a compact little box with air conditioning? And some refreshments would be awesome. But this box thingy would need to be ball proof so as to prevent death to the umpire. (since he cant really duck or move out of the way) This would also be the perfect place for sponsors to place their logos, don't u think? (I swear there was this one match where the umpire's back was used to sponsor something. It didn't really look very nice.) Wow now I'm all excited. I should totally patent this idea.
Oh and some other accessories we could provide inside the box for certain umpires named Bucknor (I'm not picking on the man but you have to admit he could use all of these) : ear phones, a hearing aid? binoculars, a telescope? a compass, a diary (so he can write his little notes to be later handed over to the match referee so that someone gets fined at least 50% of their match fee after which he can do his evil laughter and get a good night's sleep). Oh and most important an easy to read flowchart on how lbw's are to be determined.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

or maybe we could use the honor system and let the batsman decide when he is out?
- although i think Koertzen was worse then Bucknor

Unknown said...

A really nice thought. i think we should not have umpires standing at the wickets anymore!!!! the umpire will be in a comfortable cabin, like pri has suggested and the third umpires will be the audience poll.......after a incident there should be a 3 minutes break and during the break the TV audience will decide in a poll.... with 1 billion ppl,,, INDIA JUST CANT LOSE

Anonymous said...

hmmm good idea! cant we just eliminate humans as umpires and just get one of those super robots to do it???

Pri said...

@the saint: Thanks for dropping by and also for linking me. Yay! No ones ever done that before i don’t think.
I think I’m gonna cry.

@satish: Ooh i love the audience poll suggestion. Maccha only u can think of such things.

@kb: um No!!! Do u not remember Simon Taufel? Hot!!! And Shephard was adorable till he got really old and blind and Billy Bowden is highly entertaining.

sprakash said...

we linked you dude

Pri said...

yes but u dont count cause u have a better tag - my first blog friends!!!