Cricket has changed for the worse
Batsmen have usually enjoyed the rub of the green in doubtful appeals but the new umpire referrals system will only make batting a lot harder, writes Adam Parore in the New Zealand Herald
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
Batsmen have usually enjoyed the rub of the green in doubtful appeals but the new umpire referrals system will only make batting a lot harder, writes Adam Parore in the New Zealand Herald. They will have to get bat on ball around the off stump and that is going to create a lot more opportunities for other types of dismissals.
In a decision such as Flynn's, I believe the ball needs to hit the pads in line with the inside half of the off stump to allow for the batter to get the benefit of the doubt - but that's not what happened to him. Flynn was struck on the outside half of the off stump - only just in line with the stumps by even the most precise measure. Perhaps the answer may be to only use the referral system to determine if the ball has touched the bat, but leave any other part of lbw decisions to the men in the middle.
In the same paper, Adrian Seconi meets Kern Tyson, a blind West Indian commentator who never let his disability get in the way of his passion.
He began working at FFBN in 2002 and it was there he was able to put his passion into practice. "Every time I went on air I spoke about sport. So eventually I said, 'This is my passion and I need to get into writing about sport and become a sports analyst."
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo