Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Leg Before Wicket or Luck Before Wicket ?



Umpires play very good cricket now. Talented players like Sachin Tendulkar even struggles before the aggressive bowling attack from Sri Lankan umpires. He declared out by LBW thrice in the three recent One Day matches against Sri Lanka . So can we change the expansion of LBW? Is it Luck Before Wicket?

Similar type of poor LBW decision favours the Australian Team in the first one day match against New Zealand. New Zealand’s aggressive Batsman Brendon McCullum was declared out even though there was a crystal clear inside edge. However in all the above matches, other match winning players of the team led their team to victories.


In the third one day match against Srilanka, Yuvraj showed his elbow after hitting a sparkling century. He simply shows the gesture of poor LBW decisions. He was also a victim of LBW in the previous match and T.V.Replays showed that he was not out.
So referral system which was carried out by ICC in a trial basis on tests should be included in One Day Matches. That may help to avoid the poor and partial umpiring decisions.

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