India's umpiring standards need a boost
While India is cricket's global superpower, there are no Indian umpires on the ICC's elite panel, Kiran More writes in DNA
Dustin Silgardo
25-Feb-2013
While India is cricket's global superpower, there are no Indian umpires on the ICC's elite panel, Kiran More writes in DNA. The solution to that problem, he says, is to encourage more former players to take up umpiring.
If I had to point out one area where we could see a significant improvement, it is the umpiring standards in domestic cricket. Like in the case of our national cricket team, where a good side is built on the basis of strong grassroots and domestic structures, umpires too cut their first teeth at domestic competitions.
Dustin Silgardo is a former sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo