Hadlee does not approve of having woman umpire

Press, 13 January 1987, Page 13

Hadlee does not approve of having woman umpire

PA Auckland Richard Hadlee, the champion cricketer and New Zealand Sportsman of 1986, believes that a woman’s place is not umpiring men’s first-class cricket.

Hadlee played in a threeday Shell Trophy match against Wellington last week in which Pat Carrick of Christchurch became the first woman to umpire a men’s first-class match in New Zealand.

“I am not questioning Pat Carrick’s competence, she made a couple of very good decisions and did not make too many mistakes,” Hadlee said.

"I do question a woman’s place in a man’s environment, subjected to verbal abuse and incidents.

Meh would handle such things better. ’’l don’t think - a woman should be asked to accept what goes on out there. Ladies being abused in the middle is not the right situation as far as I am con-

cerned.” Hadlee said he expected that he might "get it in the neck” for making allegedly sexist remarks, but felt that men’s cricket was a man’s game and should be umpired by men.