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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Umpires => Topic started by: Howzat on June 07, 2011, 08:39:58 AM
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Anyone had one of these?
Saturday was a perfect example of this, I hit the ball out to deep cover, coming back for a third run the umpire calls it one short by me (correct decision). Then goes on to lecture me about how that is an intentional attempt by me to cheat and if it happens again I will be docked runs... then goes and has a right go at our skipper. Absolutely ridiculous, surely a polite warning would be enough.
You lot must have some better stories...
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Our umpire stopped the game for 10 mins until someone sat in the score box as there scorer said she was claustrophobic to which his reply was well you came here in a car so you can sit in a score box and game was stopped till one of there players went in the s ire box
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We had an umpire reverse a decision last season, as per a DRS review.
He gave a batsman out LBW (it was a poor decision), and his team mates collectively groaned from the sidelines when the finger went up. The player kicked off, so the umps changed his mind!
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Oooo just remembered a good one... playing in a friendly so no umpires were provided. Their opener nicks one behind in the first over, everyone goes up and the young umpire gives it putting his finger up. Batsman stares at the umpire who then goes "sorry sorry not out" and proceeds to reverse the decision! Shocking!
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We had one of those with a run out a few years ago bloke run out by a yard kid at square started to raise his finger till he got the look then put it away
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Had one the other week who warned us all before we took to the field that due to new rules this season when a bowler comes on to bowl he can only bowl a couple of practice deliveries to another teammate if the ball doesn't touch the ground.....however I have seen all the bowlers in the current test match bowl the ball into the ground before starting a new spell, was he right? Have the rules changed? We lacked the skills to do this so ignored him anyway....! :D
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The rules have changed as apparently bowling the ball into the turf to warm up is altering the state of the ball
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Had one the other week who warned us all before we took to the field that due to new rules this season when a bowler comes on to bowl he can only bowl a couple of practice deliveries to another teammate if the ball doesn't touch the ground.....however I have seen all the bowlers in the current test match bowl the ball into the ground before starting a new spell, was he right? Have the rules changed? We lacked the skills to do this so ignored him anyway....! :D
Hes 100% correct, introduced this year to prevent the deliberate scuffing of the ball by bowling the ball into the ground. Was also told off for this by an umpire this year!
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Hes 100% correct, introduced this year to prevent the deliberate scuffing of the ball by bowling the ball into the ground. Was also told off for this by an umpire this year!
Well, you learn something new everyday! I've seen numerous guys in the first class and test games doing it this season though? Wouldn't make any difference at the level I play at but can see the reasoning behind it, especially with an abrasive pitch...
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You will also see the same with outfielders when throwing the ball in from the outfield.
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we had that in a game too..saracens league
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Well, you learn something new everyday! I've seen numerous guys in the first class and test games doing it this season though? Wouldn't make any difference at the level I play at but can see the reasoning behind it, especially with an abrasive pitch...
We've had this issue too. I went to the WEPL (West of England Premier league) captains meeting, and the chairman stated that this law will not be enforced in the Wepl this year. Yet most umpires and opposition have had a go at us for doing it this season.....
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We've had this issue too. I went to the WEPL (West of England Premier league) captains meeting, and the chairman stated that this law will not be enforced in the Wepl this year. Yet most umpires and opposition have had a go at us for doing it this season.....
Umpire stopped me from doing it on Saturday in a WEPL game, and apologised saying he thinks its rubbish but rules is rules!!
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Yeah most Premier leagues have refused to enforce this law which is fair enough, also don't go by the international games as 99% of the time they have special regulations to cover this type of thing!
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Wasn't there also a rule introducted that batsmen couldn't hit a few balls or net before going out to the middle as well? As I've seen many people doing it before coming into bat, but I thought it was a law introduced?
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Yup. Silly rule introduced to stop scuffing the ball to induce reverse swing that is hardly ever achieved at club cricket level and doesn't seem to be being enforced at First Class level.
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League umpire: "Do you have any under-age players playing today?"
Our skipper: "Don't know about under-age, but we have no under 18s playing."
League umpire: "Oh, well that's a shame. Looks like my luck's out tonight."
I was scoring :(
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Had the obvious not giving him out cause hes my mate umpires as well as the umpires who wont give their sons out or their kids giving their dads out. Worst one iv'e had is when an umpire signalled a 4 against us and it stopped about 5 foot from the boundary. The bowler got so mad he refused to bowl and proceeded to walk off the pitch calling the umpire an effing cheat. The umpire than went after him and they started squaring up to each other. It ended up in a mass brawl with the game getting abandoned :-[
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Worst one iv'e had is when an umpire signalled a 4 against us and it stopped about 5 foot from the boundary.
Arghh I had one of those this year too in the national cup... panel umpires aswell! Shocking! I slid and stopped the ball about a foot in from the rope and umpire signaled four. After a quiet word explaining I had stopped it he reversed the decision.
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Was once wided for a ball the the batsman hit through square leg...
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Was once wided for a ball the the batsman hit through square leg...
I got wided for a batsman middleling it
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I got wided twice indoor for bowling the ball in between the batsmen and the stumps after he had backed away to be told "if it's past leg stump it's wide no matter where the batsmen is" cheers
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Haha thats awesome roco...bet you were impressed!
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Well I was pulled away by my mate as he knew I was going to blow as once is a mistake twice is being a muppet
Just remembered had to tell the ump the rules sat as he said an lbw was close when it pitched outside leg so I said "it pitched outside" to which he said "but you didn't play a shot" that one stumped me as he has passed the league umpiring course can any one explain that to me??
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I love it when an umpire has something happen in the game, is clearly clueless, looks around sheepishly, and calls no ball out of nowhere! Had that happen a few times in OZ, wasnt happy!
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Oh yh just remembered another one. Our best spinner had one of their batsmen lbw which was so plumb but the umpire gave it not out.
When the umpire was asked why he was not out he said it was because he didn't know the laws, he knew enough to signal wide the ball before >:(
Another one is the batsmen was stumped by such a margin that he almost started to walk and his team-mates on the boundary also gave him out, the umpire then turned round and called him back as he made his ground ???
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we had an umpire who reported me to the league for backing up to much lol i said to the umpire the rule changed your aloud as far down as long as the bowler is in his bowling stride . He then showed me a rule book from 2003 saying you cant back up that far .
He gave a dead ball and then 5 penalty runs lol later that year i had a leeter of apology saying the rule book was out of date .
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Had one the other week who warned us all before we took to the field that due to new rules this season when a bowler comes on to bowl he can only bowl a couple of practice deliveries to another teammate if the ball doesn't touch the ground.....however I have seen all the bowlers in the current test match bowl the ball into the ground before starting a new spell, was he right? Have the rules changed? We lacked the skills to do this so ignored him anyway....! :D
It is a stupid rule, I played in a game the other week where we were awarded penalty runs for one of the opposition pitching warm ups to a fielder, the guy did it 3 times and was warned the first 2 times not to do it so it wasn't like he didn't have a chance not to.
We'd bowled first and one of our bowlers had a warm up to me and it was going to land short of me so I had to dive full length to get under it the bowler and half our team looked at me like I was mad until the same umpire started to have a good chuckle and told them why I had dived forward.
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Ive been given a wide before from a ball that missed off stump by about 5cm after seaming in down a hill and the umpires reason was it was a wide when the ball pitched.
And also in a friendly one of there batsman edged behind massive edge whole team started celebrating then we realised that no one had give it and the batsman wasent walking and the worst thing is the umpire was an ex player of ours who is still a friend of the club and i got a wicket exactly the same the over before.
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A lad yesterday was given out lbw on the front foot when it hit his thigh guard and he's 6ft3
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Had one yesterday where the umpire called wide a fraction before the batsman jumped across and cracked it through cover for 4.
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Weird one yesterday.
I misjudged a run and had to run back to the bowlers end and there was a run out appeal. The umpire didn't give it out. The other team appealed again. He then went and spoke to the square leg umpire who was about 30 yards away from the incident and the square leg umpire gave me out.
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Played yesterday, their umpire gave me out LBW. I am left handed, was batting a foot outside my crease on leg stump. Bowler was bowling from wide on the crease over the wicket. Ball pitched a couple of yards outside leg stump, I took a big stride forward (im 6ft) attempted an ugly front pull, ball hit the top of my front pad still outside leg and I was given out. I didn't realise as I was laughing at the bowler for appealing and the umpire nodded and didn't raise finger and the bowler the only one to appeal was celebrating the rest on the team didn't even cheer they just stood in shock. I know plenty of guys who would have wrapped the bat around the umps head. Stood for about 10 secs looking around, shaking my head and walked off. In 20 yrs I have been LBW 3 times. But in all my time playing and watching i've never seen a decision like it. The pavilion is side on apparently the decision looked even worse from there. Sorry had to get it off my chest. Only my 5th game this year and my last due to wife and child and their selfishness wanting to spend time with me! So a gutting way to end. On the plus side the oakleys I bought from jim were great and I will never field again without sunnies and my arytek gloves are and were great yday as well.
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Was given lbw during the week when it hit the top of my front pad and im batting a foot outside of my crease, I was sure it was too high and also not to sure about the line
Another one within the last couple of weeks is a batsmen absolutely middling it to me behind the stumps, the umpire starts to put his finger up and the batmen says I didn't hit it and so the finger went back into his pocket, the batsmen then decided to have a go at us about how he hadn't hit it and that we were cheating for appealing, safe to say me along with the rest of the team wern't happy
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Played yesterday, their umpire gave me out LBW. I am left handed, was batting a foot outside my crease on leg stump. Bowler was bowling from wide on the crease over the wicket. Ball pitched a couple of yards outside leg stump, I took a big stride forward (im 6ft) attempted an ugly front pull, ball hit the top of my front pad still outside leg and I was given out. I didn't realise as I was laughing at the bowler for appealing and the umpire nodded and didn't raise finger and the bowler the only one to appeal was celebrating the rest on the team didn't even cheer they just stood in shock. I know plenty of guys who would have wrapped the bat around the umps head. Stood for about 10 secs looking around, shaking my head and walked off. In 20 yrs I have been LBW 3 times. But in all my time playing and watching i've never seen a decision like it. The pavilion is side on apparently the decision looked even worse from there. Sorry had to get it off my chest. Only my 5th game this year and my last due to wife and child and their selfishness wanting to spend time with me! So a gutting way to end. On the plus side the oakleys I bought from jim were great and I will never field again without sunnies and my arytek gloves are and were great yday as well.
Surely you can't end your season like that!
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had a couple of incidents over the last two weeks, one umpire calling no ball from square leg for the keepers gloves being infront of the stumps (not catching it infront, just the hands being over an imaginary line past the stumps)
also, in our league, the fielding restrictions state that you are allowed a maximum of 2 fielders outside of the 30 yard circle for the first ten overs, square leg umpire called no ball mid delivery because we only had one man out of the ring, worst thing was that their best bat who was on zero at the time chipped it to cover who dropped it (claiming he was put off by the call haha), umpire had to apologise, dead ball called, the batsman made 50 but we still won.
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had a couple of incidents over the last two weeks, one umpire calling no ball from square leg for the keepers gloves being infront of the stumps (not catching it infront, just the hands being over an imaginary line past the stumps)
also, in our league, the fielding restrictions state that you are allowed a maximum of 2 fielders outside of the 30 yard circle for the first ten overs, square leg umpire called no ball mid delivery because we only had one man out of the ring, worst thing was that their best bat who was on zero at the time chipped it to cover who dropped it, umpire had to apologise, dead ball called, the batsman made 50 but we still won.
Nothing wrong with the keeper no-ball, happened to us in our 2 last games with 2 different keepers, annoyingly one was made up - keeper made a stumping, umpire realised it was out, waited 10 seconds - "no ball!".
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different umpires look to penalise based on different rules, wouldnt mind if they all did it but when you just get the odd one its a bit like showing off!
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Oh yeah it is unlucky, but fair enough and fair play to the umpire for being alert!
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think we had between 150 and 200 people watching, every single one was confused as to what the no ball had been given for
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Nothing wrong with the keeper no-ball, happened to us in our 2 last games with 2 different keepers, annoyingly one was made up - keeper made a stumping, umpire realised it was out, waited 10 seconds - "no ball!".
I've called these a couple of times and got loads of grief from the fielding side.
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I got done twice today for keeping no balls....it was the first time i ever got done for a no ball
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[Surely you can't end your season like that!]
I have washed my whites, packed them away. Kit bag and equipment in the attic. You are right I can't end on that decision, I couldn't sleep last night thinking about it! I got no balled keeping at beginning of season called after the guy was cleaned bowled. Think it contributed to my retiring from keeping, that and I wasn't any good and it hurt for days in the legs! There are a couple of games in Sept maybe I can dust down the whites for one of those. At least one of the weekends I am going to the 3rd test with the missus so can't complain about that one!
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Glad to hear you are reconsidering
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Their batsman got stumped,by coming down the wicket clearly out,we all appealed, the umpire started to raise his finger and saw the batsman glaring at him shaking his head,and then the finger went and scratched his nose!!
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I once played in a game where the umpire appealed. Needless to say his finger followed very shortly after. He apologised and said he got all carried away because it was plum.
Not a bad decision but amusing nontheless.