Protection of umpires
Richard Boock looks at the practice of denying basic technological assistance to umpires and referees in sports with a jaundiced eye in New Zealand's Sunday Star Times .
Nishi Narayanan
25-Feb-2013
Richard Boock looks at the practice of denying basic technological assistance to umpires and referees in sports with a jaundiced eye in New Zealand's Sunday Star Times.
One day, hopefully soon, we'll be able to speak with feigned disbelief about a time when the only person who wasn't allowed access to all the information in a multi-million dollar operation, was the one person who was charged with running it competently.
"Why ever did you do that?" the children will chorus, and the answers will surely have them doubled over in near fits: "Well, we wanted to retain a certain human charm ... we didn't want to slow things down ... it would've detracted from the tradition of the game ... haven't you heard of the `glorious uncertainty of sport'?"
And in the Sportstar Ted Corbett wants to know why there isn't a Society for Protection of Umpires in World Cricket.
Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo