Diana Edulji calls for elite panel of umpires in women’s cricket
As the Indian ladies' group hopes to stay away from a decisive victory against Australia in the last ODI of the series at the Great Barrier Reef Arena in Mackay on Sunday, a seething issue has come into the front line.
A negligible, questionable no-ball in the penultimate wad of the match, bowled by pacer Jhulan Goswami, assisted Australia with some way or another edging India out by five wickets in an exhilarating, high-scoring game, acquiring the umpiring principles ladies' cricket into center.
"There were a few significant umpiring goofs. Since Jhulan had bowled two no-balls (midsection high full throws) in the last finished, she shouldn't have been permitted to bowl the last ball, yet should've been removed the assault. This shows that the onfield umpires were befuddled. While the no-ball call was minor, replays showed (Nicola) Carey was plumb lbw while attempting to turn around clear Rajeshwari (Gayakwad) in the penultimate over," Diana Edulji, previous India ladies' group skipper and an individual from the Committee of Administrators (CoA), which ran the BCCI from 2017 to 2019, told TOI on Saturday.
Edulji needs the International Cricket Council to have a comparative 'World class board of umpires' for worldwide ladies' cricket like it has set up for men's cricket at the high level.
"Assuming the ICC needs to advance ladies' cricket, it's about time that it has an ICC board of umpires in it, very much like it is there in men's cricket. You currently need an ICC world class umpire's board for ladies' cricket as well. In case they're playing in Australia, there should be ICC men's Elite board umpires there. They should've been approached to administer in this series. Tragically, Bruce Oxenford (on-field umpire) got harmed during the match, which implied that the save umpire (Claire Polosak), needed to supplant him. Plainly, both the third and fourth umpires were extremely unpracticed for a round of this level," Edulji felt.
Edulji thought that it is amazing that the series is being played without the Decision Review System. "For what reason should DRS not be there for a progression of this extent? It must be required in a progression of this level. You can't play one series with DRS — it was there when we visited England as of late—and play one more without DRS. That is wrong. At the point when you have the ball-following innovation, which showed that Carey was lbw, in the broadcast, for what reason isn't it being utilized for DRS?," declared the 65 year-old, who played 20 Tests and 34 ODIs.
