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[Howzat]

Im a really dodgy umpire i always give my team out LBW i cant help it -  i always think its out loL!

[art]

Sambo: "They need balls" well not really we are the only ones on the field not allowed to play with them. lol.

Everyone can learn the laws and local rules. Expereince gives a helping hand with judgement and if you have played it certainly makes the task easier. You have the best seat in the house and watching a great bowler let go the perfect leg cutter, watch it hit the deck and cut a little and the batsman plays, gets an edge and is caught in the slips cordon is a wonderful expereince just as watching a great batsman demolish an attack with wonderful shots is awesome to watch and as an umpire you are there in the middle of everything.

Talk to your local association about becoming an umpire. As for players behaviour, it is only a very small minority who are idiots and the system if it needs to be applied can work those work out of being idiots. Yes we make mistakes at times but remember for us to make a mistake a player has had to made a mistake for an appeal.

[skippy]

I got caught out off a bump ball... the umpire didnt even know what a bump ball was!

[Sambo]

yeah i kinda meant they gotta have balls not to crumble under the people who yell the crap at them and pressure them and call them cheats and what not. And dead right about the experience thing. it happened to me. i was playing 5th grade and i was at square leg. our captain stumbles out and starts tonking the living crap out of the bowlers. he hit 79 or something off 30 odd.
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