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Cricket is a lovely game liked by many countries worldwide. Though originated in Lords, it is non British for some of the world. Officially declared as “the gentlemen’s game”, Cricket is considered a fair game.
This post shall cover this so called “fairness” of this game.
When this game came into existence – no one was actually serious. The game was just a slave (yes literally) of the Umpires. Nothing happened unless Umpires willed it. Imran Khan (Pakistani Cricketer) starred at arch rivals India and said – we need 3 Indian players and no one can make us lose. Indians replied – if India is given 2 Umpires of Pakistan, India will never lose any matches.
The authorities decided to look into such cases. Then a new rule was brought in: Neutral Umpires. So, the matches between India and Pakistan will have Umpires who are neither Indians nor Pakistani. Sounds fair – Right?
But this wasn’t sufficient. What if Umpires still have biases? Even if they do not have biases, they can still make wrong decisions particularly when run outs occur. One such case happened when India fielded against Africa and mankading (a special form of run out) occurred. Then the need of having authority over Umpires came into existence. This is what we call 3rd Umpire.
It solved some cases. But this was not sufficient either. Since, this 3rd Umpire was no one but assistant of other Umpires (he did nothing unless they told him to react); this did not solve the problem completely.
Then cameras were increased and the concept of action replay came into effect. Rules were modified and Umpires were told to change decisions if required. Finally, it was taken to new levels and players themselves got a chance to challenge decisions of Umpires. This process (which is still active for some tournaments) is limited and works not more than twice per innings. These are the limitations to be worked upon with the system.
While right now, Umpiring system has reformed and unfair treatments are somehow kept in check. Let us hope that future is better for the sport lovers.
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I remember when I was the coach of our little league baseball players of our school. We had a match with the other school in our local athletic meet. In the first game, we had an even game with our opponent, not until the umpire became obviously bias and sided with our opponent.
Since I was new coach, I had not idea to combat his unfairness of the umpire. To make the story short, we lost the game. Our petition wasn't heard. We went home empty-handed, at least we did a good play. We did our best our job.
@Thinker The camera does play a big role here as the action replay does justice to the players, per se.
I had no idea that decisions were so hotly debated in cricket, although it's not terribly surprising. It's frequent - in both amateur and professional sport - for players, coaches, and even fans to disagree with a judgement call.
The instant replay has helped a lot in certain sports but there are others that involve more subjective decisions, such as for artistic merit in gymnastics or figure skating, where a biased judge can still throw off the results of an entire competition. It's tough to prove, too.
No game all over the world is honestly played except one player game a chess and squish. Dishonesty is present in very game means the players do not play well on the ground of bet of the betters who give them if they do not play well.
Actually List of cricketers banned for corruption. In cricket, match fixing occurs as a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law. ... Fixing has happened in both international - including Test matches and One Day Internationals - and domestic cricket.
Cricket's biggest match-fixing scandal was unearthed in 2000, when Hansie Cronje admitted he had accepted money to throw matches. Soon players from other countries were implicated, among them Mohammad Azharuddin and Saleem Malik. Since then, allegations of fixing - including the new phenomenon of spot-fixing - have cropped up sporadically,
and it has been acknowledged that bookmakers and the underworld have been active in trying to influence cricket results and specific moments in play. In 2010, scandal reared its head again when three leading Pakistan players were questioned by Scotland Yard and suspended by the ICC over spot-fixing charges.