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how poor umpiring affects WI cricket

Sun, Nov 23, '25 at 11:03 AM

Looking at the Barbados vs WWI match and the standard of umpiring is worse than the standard of play, at least two top order batters were given out LBW when it was clear that the ball was going down legside. The WWI batting collapsed after that. Are these umpires graded or reviewed to determine if they are fit to umpire first-class matches?

Sun, Nov 23, '25 at 9:14 PM

@dayne

This same level existed when Lara ,Shiv, Sarwan, and Gayle played

Sun, Nov 23, '25 at 9:36 PM

@Narper

In the previous days, umpires were thought to give " the batters the benefit of the doubt ". The dismissals today, it appeared that there were not even doubts that the balls were missing the stumps