As the Indian women’s team looks to avoid a clean sweep against Australia in the final ODI of the series at the Great Barrier Reef Arena in Mackay on Sunday, a raging issue has come into the forefront.
A marginal, controversial no-ball in the penultimate ball of the match, bowled by pacer Jhulan Goswami, helped Australia to somehow edge India out by five wickets in a thrilling, high-scoring game, bringing the umpiring standards in women’s cricket into focus.
“There were a couple of major umpiring blunders. Since Jhulan had bowled two no-balls (waist-high full tosses) in the final over, she shouldn’t have been allowed to bowl the last ball, but should’ve been taken off the attack. This shows that the onfield umpires were confused. While the no-ball call was marginal, replays showed (Nicola) Carey was plumb lbw while trying to reverse sweep Rajeshwari (Gayakwad) in the penultimate over,” Diana Edulji, former India women’s team captain and a member of the Committee of Administrators (CoA), which ran the BCCI from 2017 to 2019, told TOI on Saturday.
Edulji wants the International Cricket Council to have a similar ‘Elite panel of umpires’ for international women’s cricket like it has in place for men’s cricket at the top level.
“If the ICC wants to promote women’s cricket, it’s high time that it has an ICC panel of umpires in it, just like it is there in men’s cricket. You now need an ICC elite umpire’s panel for women’s cricket too. If they’re playing in Australia, there must be ICC men’s Elite panel umpires there. They should’ve been asked to officiate in this series. Unfortunately, Bruce Oxenford (on-field umpire) got injured during the match, which meant that the reserve umpire (Claire Polosak), had to replace him. Clearly, both the third and fourth umpires were very inexperienced for a game of this level,” Edulji felt.
Edulji found it surprising that the series is being played without the Decision Review System. “Why should DRS not be there for a series of this magnitude? It has to be mandatory in a series of this level. You can’t play one series with DRS — it was there when we toured England recently—and play another without DRS. That’s not right. When you have the ball-tracking technology, which showed that Carey was lbw, in the telecast, why isn’t it being used for DRS?,” asserted the 65 year-old, who played 20 Tests and 34 ODIs.
A marginal, controversial no-ball in the penultimate ball of the match, bowled by pacer Jhulan Goswami, helped Australia to somehow edge India out by five wickets in a thrilling, high-scoring game, bringing the umpiring standards in women’s cricket into focus.
“There were a couple of major umpiring blunders. Since Jhulan had bowled two no-balls (waist-high full tosses) in the final over, she shouldn’t have been allowed to bowl the last ball, but should’ve been taken off the attack. This shows that the onfield umpires were confused. While the no-ball call was marginal, replays showed (Nicola) Carey was plumb lbw while trying to reverse sweep Rajeshwari (Gayakwad) in the penultimate over,” Diana Edulji, former India women’s team captain and a member of the Committee of Administrators (CoA), which ran the BCCI from 2017 to 2019, told TOI on Saturday.
Edulji wants the International Cricket Council to have a similar ‘Elite panel of umpires’ for international women’s cricket like it has in place for men’s cricket at the top level.
“If the ICC wants to promote women’s cricket, it’s high time that it has an ICC panel of umpires in it, just like it is there in men’s cricket. You now need an ICC elite umpire’s panel for women’s cricket too. If they’re playing in Australia, there must be ICC men’s Elite panel umpires there. They should’ve been asked to officiate in this series. Unfortunately, Bruce Oxenford (on-field umpire) got injured during the match, which meant that the reserve umpire (Claire Polosak), had to replace him. Clearly, both the third and fourth umpires were very inexperienced for a game of this level,” Edulji felt.
Edulji found it surprising that the series is being played without the Decision Review System. “Why should DRS not be there for a series of this magnitude? It has to be mandatory in a series of this level. You can’t play one series with DRS — it was there when we toured England recently—and play another without DRS. That’s not right. When you have the ball-tracking technology, which showed that Carey was lbw, in the telecast, why isn’t it being used for DRS?,” asserted the 65 year-old, who played 20 Tests and 34 ODIs.
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