Message Board Archives
HEADLINE: No matter how good you are as an umpire, you will make mistakes: Billy Doctrove
CaribbeanCricket.com
Oct 26, 2014, 11:12:01 AM
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.
Read the full interview at CricketWeb.net
Full Story
Narper
Oct 26, 2014, 4:59:27 PM
In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com
Excellent interview Venky Babu 
Hanover
Oct 26, 2014, 5:11:31 PM
In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com
Such a lovely written article should not die the most cruelest death of all: going to the other side of page-10, with nary a day spent on page-1.
anandgb
Oct 26, 2014, 5:13:40 PM
gvenkat
Oct 26, 2014, 5:14:21 PM
Thank you.. Big up to Commie for linking me up with Billy.
Maispwi
Oct 27, 2014, 5:23:18 AM
Commie
Oct 27, 2014, 5:28:50 AM
In reply to Maispwi
One interesting tidbit is that nearly every other umpire on the Elite panel got divorced or separated.
gvenkat
Oct 27, 2014, 6:28:46 AM
In reply to Commie
I did not know that.
Commie
Oct 27, 2014, 6:31:44 AM
In reply to gvenkat
Some of the best tidbits are the ones you dont report.
Its a very pressured lifestyle and early retirement is often the best way to preserve your family life.
Admin
Oct 27, 2014, 6:56:29 AM
Was there a selfie session?
_r
gvenkat
Oct 27, 2014, 7:03:00 AM
In reply to Admin
How does it matter? Did you read the interview? Would you rather comment on the interview than the interviewer... ?
Admin
Oct 27, 2014, 7:12:24 AM
In reply to gvenkat
The interview was terrible. I was going to go easy but since you asked directly...
_r
gvenkat
Oct 27, 2014, 7:19:33 AM
In reply to Admin
OK.. you know what they say about opinions.. 