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Legendary West Indian umpire has admitted watching iconic batsman Brian Lara was always somewhat of a guilty pleasure and that behind the stumps was the best place to be when the batsman was on the go.

The 74-year-old official stood in 128 Test matches and 181 One Day Internationals (ODI) in a career that spanned 20 years.  While admitting an affinity for the destructive power of Viv Richards, the Jamaican-born umpire admits there was something otherworldly about Lara.

“Viv Richards, the Master Blaster, I rate him very highly on my list because he destroyed every type of bowling…then there is Brian Lara who I think is the best thing the eyes can behold when he is on the go.  He was poetry in motion.  He did things that others couldn’t do,” Bucknor told the Mason and Guest Radio program.

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Nice.

But why is this labelled as an admission???




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Lara was a force of nature when he was in that mental state of badmanship with the willow. Forget Viv, he had more dominance.

In reply to Raggs

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Firstly, lara wasn't out in tge first innings of tge Guyana test when darryl harper game him out, caught behind to srinath. Secondly, lara came into the series recovering from a broken hand which is why he barely made cover drives because there was no strength in his forearm

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

For the record

This was taken from the Mason & Guests show...which Sportsmax properly credited as the source of the interview.



At 1:13 in Steve Bucknor

This Interview was special...some serious insight and several hilarious stories.

Massive respect Steve

In reply to powen001

Was a lovely interview

HOW DID BUCKNOR SEE ANYTHING.....HE WAS BLINE LIKE A BAT

In reply to Chrissy

Cheers.

I was told about it..and I tuned in just in time.

Thankfully they leave the podcasts up

In reply to Narper

I think he covered this in the interview too..hilarious stuff

In reply to Narper
Man you beat me to it.
I was looking to post the video when he give Tendy out LBW
in Australia. The ball hit the man in his stomach.

In reply to Ridge
what shit
u making Grieg twist you
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It hit the front leg first

In reply to Ridge
Bucknor was NOT the worse-things happen-you get chain up
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In reply to Ridge

Everybody talking about a video that never was created-find it na .. .

great interview

In reply to Barry

IN the interview Bucknor said...those made it hard for him to sleep.


THat really put s a human face on the umpire...

we are prone to think that these men just shrug it off...

this one he admitted was rough on him.

Mason really taking advantage of COVID lock down...says he was trying to get Steve for over a decade to sit down and be interviewed

In reply to Ridge

In reply to ponderiver

And de stumps mussee 6 ins high...right?

That was most ridiculously wrong LBW decision made in dat era....bar none....

In reply to Narper

It was not. He may have got the trajectory wrong and Tendy wasn’t playing a shot

In reply to ponderiver

They can’t find it because they lie....

In reply to Narper

Come on Narps, that was plumb as plumb
Show the Hawkeye!

In reply to Barry

I think the implication is that Viv was more of a slugger, with brute force; on the contrary, Lara was an artist when it came to batting.

TenD could have been sweeping on one knee, when he was hit?

In reply to outside_edge

I am not against Viv- I think he is an artist too and both can dominate but in different ways....power vs placement

Bump

In reply to Halliwell

Watch the video

The 2003 GABBA incident has already been shown. It is not his stomach. He played no shot. Bucknor has apologized-Move on.

“To err is human,” he told the Mason & Guest programme in th

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In reply to Narper

WHAT A SKUNT.

All the WASTEUNDIANs from umpires to players to fans are cheaters and braggers.

It proved again and again. The more the video evidenced in cave era the more WASTEUNDIES FAKE DOMINANCE will be exposed.

In reply to Narper

Nah, that’s still plumb.
Hawkeye was in its infancy then
I have been given out too many times with the ball pitching way outside leg, from a left arm around bowler!!! No THAT is tiefin

Tendy has a bat in his hand. Which he failed to use.
GG said see ball hit ball
IVA said it’s round red now go fetch
Tendy said it’s thick and white I will thrust it at this delivery