Pocket-help plans irk Bird
NZPA-AFP London The English umpire, Dickie Bird, has slammed plans by the World Cup organisers to issue officials with pocket televisions to help them make the correct decisions in cricket’s showpiece in October and November.
“It is Just not cricket and I am certainly against it," Mr Bird said. He is one of two English umpires selected for the tournament in India and Pakistan. “As far as I am concerned, you give a decision and that is it And 99 times out of 199 umpires are right anyway. I hope I never
live to see the day when they are introduced in England.” Mr Bird has never watched a video recording of any match he has umpired. , “If I did and saw I had made a wrong decision, I wouldn’t be able to live with myself,” he said.
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