No matter how good you are as an umpire, you will make mistakes: Billy Doctrove
Sun, Oct 26, '14
Billy, you come from a very small island Dominica with a population of just 72,000 people. Please tell us how you got into cricket?
From early in my life, I've always been involved in sports. I loved football in particular. Football has always been my number one love; I even managed to referee a couple of FIFA world cup qualifiers. But being in the Caribbean I realized that probably I could go further in cricket umpiring. That is why I had to make a change from refereeing to cricket umpiring and I started off with cricket umpiring by chance.
When I was 18 I went to watch a school level cricket match. One of the umpires didn't show up and the other umpire asked me to hold on for a while. I thought that I had been holding on for about 10, 15 minutes, but I held on for the entire pre-lunch period. At lunch time, I told him, well, I have to leave because I didn't come here to umpire. I just came here to watch. I left and he told me that he would bring a cricket law book for me at school on Monday morning.
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