Worst Umpiring Ever In A Single Test Series - Shameful Umpiring

[@lukedastoli9959]

If anyone complains about DRS not being perfect, just show them this video.

[@paulnorris2756]

I agree but neutral umpires has also made a huge difference.

[@CinemaFan777]

​@@paulnorris2756most if not all these guys are neutral. Jayprakash in Indian. Koertzen is South African. So is Dave Orchard i believe. coorey is the only one Sri Lankan

[@913egok]

Both neutral umpires and DRS are necessary. In a perfect world, we wouldn't need neutral umpires, but it's not a perfect world. DRS, imperfect as it is, is worth way more than the 5% or so it slows the game down by.

[@rep1600]

@@913egok and honestly. much of the crowd enjoys watching DRS challenges, so not much entertainment value is lost

[@teambonry]

Exactly my thoughts

[@archiesinfield9333]

well at least they cant be accused of being biased because they were equally bad for both teams hahaha

[@StuTheDon17]

No bias. But blatant match fixing.

[@surjinsandhu9480]

bias can occure through fixing which is quite prevalent here

[@John_Wall]

I'm sorry but I disagree. Most of the decisions that went in England's favour were at least somewhat understandable....there was a lot for the umpire to consider such as bat and pad in close proximity or a bump ball. But those two lbw decisions against Engalnd were absolutely appalling. They were very, very, very easy decisions. The one from Murali impacted the pad a good foot outside off stump...not inches. A village cricket umpire would be castigated for such an awful decision. But the worst decision of the lot by far was the ball from Jayasuriya. It pitched a good 2 foot outside the leg stump. It would be considered a simple decision to make for a schoolboy umpire. It is highly improbable that an international level umpire could make such an error of judgement.

[@SAFFRONINFERNO]

HAHAHAHAHAHA Thank God KT FRANCIS wasn't present Match would have been over in 2 days

[@escapedlunatic27]

@@John_Wall Sure, those were bad - but I'd say the worst of all was Jayasuriya being given out caught when he hit it straight into the ground.

[@fosdyke71]

Umpires: "Two rules that never fail: Anything that hits the pad is out. All bat pads are not out"

[@500mmomentind.p5]

🤣 Can't believe we had a test match like this back then Bucknor: I'm the worst These 3 umpires: hold my beer 🤣

[@cricketfanatic9455]

Hhhh

[@laxman.mshettigar7738]

bc curray king of no look decision

[@11hitmanDagenius]

There have been lots of bad umpiring decisions in different times in the past. Bucknor was not the first neither he is the last of such umpires

[@shubhamgoel1057]

"पकड़ो मेरा ठररा"

[@gameguru1234]

Bucknor only really lost the plot towards the end of his career (he should've retired much earlier). He was a good umpire originally.

[@merajsamarasinghe985]

This is not SL vs ENG... This is Umpires VS players

[@garwoc216]

Umpires vs cricket!

[@Hrithik-p9o]

Nice comment..... I was thinking how batsmen was..... None of them have gone to discuss with umpire.... In gully cricket during my child hood the batsmen has thrown the bat over umpire

[@asheerramkalawan249]

😂

[@slhermit]

Umpires might be so bored standing all day, So they decided to play a game too.

[@aquadorf3200]

Bro defined this match better than any one 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rwolves]

I remember this series so well. How these umpires ever got another match after this is beyond me. This was worse than village level umpiring. They had no business ever being involved in cricket again. Incompetence at the highest level all series.

[@brettmackin-xq5rb]

How they got to be international umpires is more mind blowing

[@MinhasMedia]

truly shameful

[@ajs41]

Rudi Koertzen was usually quite good.

[@MrAhuapai]

One word Bookies not incompetence.

[@Luke-jx3mj]

@@MrAhuapai That's what I was thinking watching this.

[@swanandhegde]

Outs are given not out , not outs are given out to both sides equally. You won't get umpires more fair than these.

[@HoratioFitzbastard]

The thing with howlers is they do even themselves out over time.

[@ncoks]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@telugukings1227]

How about the third umpire giving out when bat did not touch the ball 👩‍🦰👩‍🦰

[@LukeABarnes]

Equal incompetence is not the ideal form of fairness.

[@jimcat8975]

​@@telugukings1227third umpire wasn't allowed to check if it hit the bat in those days, only to check if catch was taken cleanly.

[@jto541]

The first clip the umpire has definitely forgotten the rules of LBW. That was pitching so far outside leg it's not funny. Impossible that he actually thought to himself, 'Yep, that was pitching in line'.

[@piyushpathak5616]

Yes but still it will be hitting stumps for sure. It's wrong decision but still at that times. Not so outrageous. Like the other few dismissal that was shown in the video. But I agree decision was hugely wrong.

[@JasonX2]

​@piyushpathak5616 How is it not outrageous? It pitched a foot outside leg.

[@mattrichards915]

@@piyushpathak5616 as an umpire, when the bowler is left arm over to a right handed bat, I'm immediately paying close attention to where the ball pitches. It makes the job easier as the second that the pitch is outside leg I no longer have to worry abour LBW, I don't even have to think about whether it is hitting the stumps. I'm just a level one village cricket umpire - I can't believe anyone at test level can be so bad.

[@nijaethompson7647]

​@@mattrichards915I've never even been a cricket umpire and I know that was so blatantly not out. Shocking decision.

[@shaggy1234shaggy]

Lets just say that umpire momentarily forgot the rule, or he got confused between leg side vs off side. Otherwise no way he adjudged that it was pitching in line. 😂

[@rossmurray6849]

I recall watching a meaningless ODI with Pakistan at home to England in the days before neutral umpires. Wasim Akram, a left-hander, was bowling and an English batsman was given out lbw even though the ball pitched well outside of the leg stump line. The Pakistani commentator was a bit non-committal saying, "I think the batsman could have been given the benefit of the doubt." David Gower was more forthright in his comment, "That ball didn't land outside of leg; it landed in the next postcode." The batsman did well to walk off the ground without a display of dissent but he smashed a door once he got back inside the dressing room. Unfortunately that was captured on a CCTV monitor and the player was charged with (probably) bringing the game into disrepute. Clive Lloyd, the match referee, adjudicated that charge and after reviewing the footage he ruled the batsman had not committed any offence -- because the door had been "damaged accidentally"!

[@TurdBoi666]

Chad Clive Lloyd

[@grav20]

Peter Manuel, the umpire from the first Test, is now an ICC Umpires Coach. Go figure. This series was the catalyst for neutral umpires at both ends and eventually the DRS. The standard is much much better now.

[@cricketfanatic9455]

Yes

[@karanrathod1515]

Neutrality dint help much here honestly...both foreign umps were poor, even Rudy Koertzen...that’s shocking

[@jishnuraghu]

He might be teaching what not to do

[@Basetornado]

There was 6 umpires in the 3 test series in Feb-March 2001 Peter Manuel and Arani Jayaprakash in the first test only lasted until Dec 2001 and Feb 2002 respectively at the Test Level. BC Cooray and Rudi Koertzen were in the second test. Cooray never umpired at Test Level again. (He's the one who gave out Jayasuriya and refused to give the batpads out in the second test) While Rudi umpired until 2010. David Orchard and Asoka de Silva were in the third. Orchard lasted until 2004, and later forgot to turn up to a One Dayer in England because he thought it was a day nighter. de Silva who doesn't feature in the video was a Test Umpire until 2011.

[@ak6188]

Thanks for the info really appreciate that ❤❤

[@adeshverma3142]

Ashoka de Silva was the one who gave gary Wilson out in 2011

[@achmed82]

poor alec stewart ... his average would have been 5 points higher if he hadn't played this series

[@anbee8127]

These clowns are the reason we have technology in umpiring

[@cricketfanatic9455]

👍

[@mezykin]

These umpires are lucky this happened in the year 2000. If this happened today the umpires would've been hounded on social media.

[@rick_fortune]

Most of those were utter howlers. I could maybe cut a bit of slack with the Vaas LBW on Stewart, but it was still wrong. Just not as egregiously bad as the rest.

[@nandunsamarasekara]

Umpire is kind of "I want both teams to lose"😂

[@stevecooksley]

Even at my hungover worst I have never given a decision as bad as that first one.

[@rcopterboy]

Probably because you'd made all of the bad decisions the night before!!🤣🤣

[@ravikumarsrivastava1786]

😂😂😂😂

[@fruitopia6798]

Some real shockers amongst this but seriously there have probably been a hundred or more series just as bad or worse before stuff like like snicko, hotspot, ball-tracking, DRS reviews and slo-mo hi-def replays from multiple angles. Its easy to criticise but if we were the ones out there using just our eyes and nothing else we would probably do just as bad (well maybe except for that first LBW)

[@devanshu2005]

1:22 - the smile of the umpire tells it all...!!!!

[@garrymcdonald5456]

That first LBW wow, only explanation is he forgot the rules about being pitched outside leg stump. There can be no other excuse.

[@Which_Way]

Or he’s on the payroll

[@chrisbuesnell3428]

Yes. I thought the same thing. He's clearly forgotten outside leg is not out.. I thought the Alec stewart lbw marginal

[@jonathanward7320]

Just on the first decision, as someone who is ignorant to cricket rules like me, I don’t understand why you think it’s not out, the ball literally spins into the pads and was a certain to hit the wickets. Isn’t that the whole point of spin bowling, to spin the ball from one direction to the other. What’s the point of spin bowling if you have to pitch it in a certain area, surely it’s down to the bowlers skill to pitch it wherever and use the spin to hit the wickets?

[@chiranthsanketh562]

​@@jonathanward7320Google blind spot

[@tdkcampbell]

​@@jonathanward7320 if they allowed the ball to pitch outside leg fast bowlers would all just bowl around the wicket and aim at the pads. It would be mayhem.

[@faumyhassan]

Umpires decided to have some fun Waking up after each appeal 🤣🤣

[@manto7]

This was "Cricket 2007 easy mode with Sri Lanka as your team and England as CPU"

[@akamiguelsanchez9985]

I’ll never forget how mad my dad was watching this 😂

[@mick4093]

Did the umpires have a competition to see who could make the most incorrect decisions?

[@bkkp5468]

I've always thought you should get people who are 25 - 40 years old to umpire cos they can actually see. Never understood why 65 year old blind blokes were umpiring at the highest level😂

[@stevevince9680]

There was a story about an English country cricket umpire called Alec Skelding turning down an appeal from Fred Trueman. Shortly afterwards a dog ran onto the field and went up to Skelding, and Trueman said "There you are, Alec, all you need now is a white stick."

[@ahogg5960]

And it's always former players as well. Basically, if you're an umpire who wants to rise through the ranks and become an ICC Elite Umpire...if you haven't played, at the very least, first class cricket, you'll never get a look in. Forgetting of course that arguably the best modern day umpire, Simon Taufel, didn't make it past grade cricket in Australia before a back injury forced him to retire.

[@johnanthony6092]

@@ahogg5960 Four English umpires stick in my mind and I would have been happy to have any of them behind the stumps: Bill Alley, Dicky Bird, David Shepherd and David Constant.

[@allanhaggo8598]

Bill Alley was Australian 😊

[@CosmicGoat-d3o]

@@johnanthony6092 Dicky was a big not out umpire when it came to LBWs.

[@jitendradubey384]

Umpires:- Don't tell me what to do,I just do what I want,it's my match my choice 😃

[@aquadorf3200]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gavvaashok7546]

Black Glasses Umpire should have been one of the worst umpires ever to officiate a game😂

[@-yeme-]

think it was definitely a case of some bad decisions resulting in increased pressure and scrutiny on the umps leading to more bad decisions and it became a vicious circle but it did remind me of when we used to umpire our own matches at school as kids and it was basically pure guesswork lol

[@piyushtiwari4190]

My respect for steve Buckner increased by a mile after this video 🛐

[@wombatski100]

No, he was still shite :)

[@userKK2023]

My grandmom who doesn't watch cricket would have done a better job.

[@theplanetvoyager]

I cant believe that first one was given out where Jayasuriya pitched way outside leg. Umpire needs to find another job

[@pmiskeen]

In the 1996 World Cup semi finals.. BC Cooray had got hit on the head by a Ritchie Richardson sweep. He'd probably not recovered from that hit even 5yrs since that match.

[@ravikumarsrivastava1786]

😂😂

[@wizach777]

Agreed, he is a shame to his country. I am from his country too. We scolded him during many matches, because of his horrible decisions.

[@inscrutablemungus4143]

That first appeal from Jayasuriya was shameful. If it pitches that far outside leg stump, just don't appeal. There's absolutely no way that the keeper, slip and bowler did not know that that pitched outside leg. The only reason you would appeal is to con the umpire into making a bad decision.

[@sharifworld123]

Then why are umpires paid for?

[@inscrutablemungus4143]

@@sharifworld123 Cricket is a sport that's meant to be played both within the rules and the spirit of the game. Conning the umpires is not within the spirit of the game. As long as we have human umpires instead of AI or some system that's completely mechanized, they will make mistakes. Going by your question, you don't seem to care about playing the sport with honor as long as your side wins, but I do. Jayasuriya may have been within the rules to appeal but what he did was shameful.

[@Mb36]

@@inscrutablemungus4143 ultimately we all want to win...

[@inscrutablemungus4143]

@@Mb36 Sure, your standards for the team you support are lower. Mine are not.

[@RBenjo21]

And yet England didn’t threaten to pack their bags and go home. Take note, BCCI.

[@johnmichaels1413]

😂😂😂

[@manzurelahi4873]

Eng 2-1

[@sattwikchakrabarti]

Because it's incompetent umpiring which went against both the sides.... There's a difference between biased umpiring with malafide intention & incompetent umpiring...

[@zigzwang]

Because both sides got their share of wrong decisions.. not like 10 decisions against a single side. If you can't understand this then you need a psychiatrist moron. Lol

[@rahulharshan8531]

And that's why we rule ICC now !!

[@kenrickcampbell7406]

I'm quite Stevie Wonder would see that a ball pitched outside the leg stump, can't be given out.

[@HHM706]

We had an umpire at our club who gave every run out appeal out, if it was a direct hit😂

[@totraveltolive1871]

Where's K T Francis...the rascal and useless umpire of all the time????

[@sashidharan369]

I think umpire forgot there is something called “Pitched Outside”. He was giving out for every thing. Gave Not outs as Out and Outs as not out. Quite a balanced approach for both the teams at the end I believe 😅

[@deepaks3481]

First i thought umpires were against England, then I thought umpires were against lankans, then I thought umpires were against England and then again I thought umpires were against lankans.Absolute chaos

[@TMQ1981]

Some of these umpires are literally laughing while giving these wickets out .... Atleast these decisions are taking weather out of the equation...

[@SenaAmara]

The good old days when there was no confusion about when to celebrate a wicket

[@LordMarps]

The umpires absolutely stinking the place out with some of those howlers…

[@ravikumarsrivastava1786]

😂😂😂

[@antarikshahazra8173]

That umpire with the sunglasses shaking head & confidently giving wrong decisions 🤣🤣

[@rickgrimes6794]

New rule added for umpires: Do not take weed before the match.

[@sandy_2314]

Each might have had a shot of weed ciga at each lunch break..their smile is doubtable😂😂

[@muhammadtaimur1498]

Umpire Jai Parkah got Kumble 10 wickets. This is not beyond him

[@ksrv]

After seeing this I have started doubting too 😂😂

[@lautheimpaler4686]

Cope Pakistani. All of Kumble's wickets were legit

[@alanjackson2712]

Loads of examples of why there are now independent umpires. Ones that stick in the memory are Shaku Rana in Pakistan and New Zealand umpires Vs Michael Holding 😱

[@stratocaster1986able]

Alec Stewart probably aged 10 years during this series from the stress alone.

[@aquadorf3200]

😂😂fr

[@dante666jt]

Bowler: 🥹 Batsmen: 😮 Umpire: 😁

[@stevenprice6957]

How bad were the LBW decisions outside leg stump 🙄😂😂😂. Not sure I’ve seen worse than that

[@rupayanjana6852]

I believe, the umpires can also raise their middle fingers...sometimes ..

[@indeed596]

The Alec Stewart LBW is utterly horrendous. You'd have thought the umpire would be shot after that decision

[@BenRelle]

There was no way that Hussai was going to walk after those shocking decisions in the first innings - he was right to stand his ground.

[@aquadorf3200]

Ikr fr , his team was given out for the ball being outside the line , and IDK why tf the Srilankans are angry because all the decisions went in favor of them except 3-4 decisions

[@HighLordBlazeReborn]

​@@aquadorf3200 "every decision except about half went in their favour" is the kind of logic I expect from someone that thinks someone shouldn't walk after hitting the ball to a fielder lmao. Was your dad one of the umpires? Because you seem to share the same single IQ point lol

[@aquadorf3200]

@@HighLordBlazeReborn mf , tell me if a batter is given out , when the umpires make a preschool level mistake multiple times , why would he walk , to the mistakes , didn’t see Sri Lanka say not out when the ball is pitching outside leg in 4k. It is fked up , I would have walked thats how I play my game. When the umpires make a fked decisions players take advantage of the situation and there is no DRS in those days , so your fate lies on 2 men who make mistakes like showed in this vid , players will take advantage. Modern day umpires are good , thank god it isnt like this in the modern day.

[@mhKhan-lk8ur]

Black Srilankans are always the beneficiaries whether they r cheating and chucking. No one can raise their voice as those blackies ll bring out the racism issue. Chucker Murali in spite of being a chucker no one can raise voice due to racism issue. Worst umpiring in the history of cricket.

[@BengtsonJ]

Hence why there is DRS now. That is Club Cricket umpiring!

[@philipmarsden7104]

But without the competence.

[@rwolves]

I would hope club cricket umpiring is better than that

[@unknownfromkashmir]

People out here complaining I guess these umpires were pioneers - they made the world rethink reviewing

[@pawanchettri3619]

Umpires were like let the bowlers have their day😂

[@APKDeZ]

This looks like a fixed test match series gone wrong & they are waiting for the highest bidder 😂😂😂

[@aqeelaliani]

If I were a bowler in these matches, I'd appeal every time I'm hit for a boundary. Because it seems like these umpires would just raise the finger wherever they felt like it. It's not like there are rules or something. I'm sure I'd have gotten a wicket on a boundary in these matches 😅

[@NICKDEVILS420]

I remember one of the umpires saying they didn't have a bad match but there was several horrible decisions they did! One had to wonder what they considered a bad match!

[@makarandkinikar7786]

That's really ridiculous.So many bad decisions isn't acceptable at all.

[@ashishnair12]

All I can say is that atleast the umpires weren't biased.😂

[@laurieirwin2331]

Welcome to local cricket in Queensland

[@cricketfanatic9455]

Yesss

[@arrv544]

BC Cooray and Jayaprakash... two absolutely legendary garbage umpires

[@skhanvlogs-k3l]

Brown umpires giving white batsmen out, and white umpires giving brown batsmen out

[@slhermit]

When we see these slow motion, we may think umpires are idiots for making such decision. But in real time, their job is very difficult. It is basically impossible to notice those lbws, catches with your naked eye and ears.

[@johnanthony6092]

I really like cricket. When I was on summer holiday from school I would sit and watch 5-day test matches. The one thing that always bugged me, though, was the LBW rule(s). I fully understand LBW but I question the need for it to be so complicated. I'm of the opinion that if the ball is going to hit the stumps you are out. I don't care if the bowler pitches the damned ball on Pluto, if it's going to go on and hit the stumps and you get in the way of it, you're out!

[@CosmicGoat-d3o]

Not really. Test matches will end in few hours.

[@Mustafiz1972]

If the LBW laws provided that its out as long as it’s hitting the stumps, then Tests would become ODIs, and ODIs T10s!

[@johnanthony6092]

@@Mustafiz1972 They wouldn't. Batsmen would adjust their playing style.

[@kenoliver8913]

@@Mustafiz1972 The opposite, actually. Every bowler would be bowling from wide around the wicket targeting leg stump with all the fielders on the legside. Scoring would become nigh on impossible.

[@Mustafiz1972]

@@kenoliver8913 I was speaking in terms of duration of the matches!

[@jamesdunn9930]

Hahaha Botham: An England batsmen - “well that’s disgraceful umpiring” A SL batsmen - “on your way son, stop moaning” Brilliant.

[@shags91]

I always believed that Steve Bucknor came as Karma to Indian cricket for producing an umpire like N Jayprakash

[@CosmicGoat-d3o]

Jayaprakash was horrible but Bucknor was on whole another level.

[@shags91]

@@CosmicGoat-d3o there was a match between Pakistan and England. N Jayprakash's poor decisions were the major reason why Pakistan won actually. The Pakistan captain Wasim Akram joked in the press conference that he wished for N Jayprakash to be given the Nishan e Pakistan. Which is the Bharat Ratna of Pakistan basically

[@sadanand7105]

probably the Umpires were in a hurry to catch their flights back home🧐

[@Arjun-eb1yc]

0:03 Jayasuriya trying to keep a straight face.

[@vishva_de_zoysa]

0:32 the umpire was like "I wanna go home, fuck all of ya'll" 😂

[@banteerajabundela4475]

Inspiration for Steve Buckner 😂

[@HatterDave]

How did Koertzen go from this to be one of the best umpires of his generation?

[@azakive]

didnt he give Sanga out again incorrectly (off his shoulder i think) after he made that gallant 192 against the aussies ? he sure had it in for sanga lol

[@johnanthony6092]

Learning from his mistakes?

[@HkFinn83]

I thought he was always pretty bad

[@gingervirus2988]

You’re thinking of his twin brother who replaced him

[@tankthelord1178]

Loved the one with Alec Stewart at the start - he sucker punched outside of a pub one day.... lol

[@Panaputra]

Most important thing is how gentlemanly teams behaved those days when a decision is not going their way. Just accepted it and went back for the next delivery. Nowadays if this happened there will be total chaos.

[@vaibhavsonwane9036]

Jo umpaier galat decision deta usko bhi ban kar dena chahiye kuch matches ke liye ya match feees katni chahiye taki galat decision na de

[@saijaswanthkakumanu7626]

Poor Jayasuriya expression tells it all about the umpiring 😂 at 4:47

[@tahmidhasan9537]

Well Can't argue..Both Srilanka & English are same.....🤣🤣🤣

[@DeanWhipper]

The one at 4:00 is one of the worst I've ever seen, literally hit it straight into the ground, not even a bump ball. Utterly disgraceful.

[@matthewdwan300]

The first one is the worst

[@RGP_Maths]

​@@matthewdwan300Yes, I remember that one well, and I've always said it's the worst decision I've ever seen at Test level. I hadn't remembered how consistently abject the umpiring was throughout the series though.

[@neoandleia]

Well that was Jayasuriya getting Karma for the first dismissal. So all fair n square at the end of the day 😂

[@ribbonsofnight]

It's one of the ones a realist admits they need the replay to be sure. I don't even think it's in the worse half in this video.

[@manishagandhi_2001]

@@RGP_Maths The same Jayasuriya celebrated with that LBW decision right?? Didn't he know that it was not out?? Why did he appeal and celebrate or created an impression as if he got a genuine wicket???? Cheaters would suffer in some way 😅

[@HolisticHealthEducation]

Not even close. Darryl Hair is the undisputed world champion of ridiculous bad umpires.

[@Brettymac24]

These are far worse than any of his

[@heusie18]

The Thorpe catch wasn't clean anyway, the ball touches the ground at 4.43 while Thorpe is still in motion, like Starc in the Ashes

[@johnanthony6092]

I was about to make that comment to another reply when I saw yours here. You're dead right; that ball was grounded before the catch was completed.

[@osokmav]

@@johnanthony6092 Nobody gave a shit about that until Starc's catch.

[@escapedlunatic27]

It's a close call between this one and a couple of years earlier when Javed Akhtar made a whole series of howlers in the England vs South Africa series. Both were truly appalling.

[@SerioussoccerfanYT]

Javed Akhtar ?? I must confess that I haven't heard of an umpire going by this name before.

[@indraneelmandal29]

​@@SerioussoccerfanYTHe was the fellow who ruled Thorpe out to Srinath in England 99...another match turning howler

[@keithpowles758]

The bent arm of a certain "bowler" is startling after not seeing it for a while.

[@CosmicGoat-d3o]

You can see the same in IPL with Sunil Narine. The guy chucked his way to become a millionaire.

[@bradmenpes809]

Decisions so bad that a case can be made for getting rid of the umpires entirely.

[@chairmanzia3556]

If the feelings one chronological order, it looks as though after the first match, the respective umpires started to penalise the opposing team.

[@harikrishnanchandramohan4209]

Why the hell should it pitch in line to hit the stumps. If it does, its not spinning, is it?

[@kenoliver8913]

One point of the "pitching in line" rule is that a ball bowled from out near the popping crease (especially when bowling around the wicket) can only ever be LBW if the ball straightens a lot off the pitch - that is, it spins sharply. This is why off spinners, for example, only ever go around the wicket on a pitch where the ball is turning at near right angles. Without this rule every spinner would bowl only fast flat balls delivered from as wide of the wicket as they can.

[@manishagandhi_2001]

LBW rules really needs a change.... Pitching in line is a worst rule. If a bowler pitches the ball outside the wicket and if it turns, hit the pads and if the ball is on stumps, then it should be given OUT. It's the talent of a bowler to turn or swing the ball..... Leg byes should be cancelled and LBW rules (pitching in line should be removed).... Whether the ball was pitched outside or not, if it is hitting the stumps, then it should be given out.

[@chiranthsanketh562]

Google blind spot

[@ksrv]

Also wide rule should be changed accordingly. A leg side wide should be given only when the ball passes 2 feet away from the batsman. /s

[@manishagandhi_2001]

@@ksrv Yeah..... Leg byes, Byes is meaningless, LBW (pitching outside), Legside wide should be changed.

[@kenoliver8913]

But then every bowler would only bowl from wide around the wicket targeting leg stump with a 7-2 legside field. Very, very boring cricket.

[@manishagandhi_2001]

​@@Satisfying_Cricket_Shorts That's the talent of a bowler to turn the ball and batsmen should be capable of playing them. That's how Cricket should be like.... Nowadays, it has become only batsmen's game to attract more crowd and sponsorship.

[@Doctor_Sudipto-Paediatrics]

The third umpire forgot to see wether the ball clipped the bat😂😂😂. That was the icing on the cake.

[@itookallthenames]

Almost like roulette isn’t it

[@gauravgoyal6183]

For years I was thinking that Steve Bucknor was the only idiot in umpiring fraternity. Still these all umpiring errors in a single series are no way near Sydney 2008.

[@gdeep6893]

lol Jayasuriya claiming a lbw for a ball clearly pitching outside leg and then getting upset when he got a bad decision… karma !!

[@hyroproto4364]

He hit the ball straight to the ground bro

[@donweerasiri3770]

​@@hyroproto4364but pitch outside the leg stump also not out

[@HiranAlokaRathnayake]

Players have nothing to do about them. Only the umpires should be blamed

[@damageincorporated8558]

Nasser Hussein's got a bloody cheek, haha

[@mmkn2009]

What people don't realise is that that the legs are simply an extension of the stumps, so if ball hits legs you are out, unless it hits the bat as well in which case you are not out even if the ball ends up getting caught.. This means that most of the decisions in this video are correct, where as about every other decision that has ever been made in cricket before and after this match has been incorrect. LOL. By the way, I'm just joking!

[@neoandleia]

😂😂

[@fwof3347]

I think thes up more think leg is by the boundary

[@ratel8598]

Even more shocking knowing this was in a single series! Wow

[@MrDanallman]

Shocking. However Graham Thorpes catch at slip was amazing.

[@heusie18]

The Ball touched the ground while Thorpe was still in motion, just like Starc in the Ashes

[@clintmcadie2675]

You mean England failed a spirit of cricket moment?!? I’m shocked! Haha.

[@mmmyeah7]

3:24 😂 amazing hahahahhaha espeically after the first one given not out

[@arifnadari2413]

WHY THE FKK THE PLAYERS ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING ??

[@mjshortstay609]

What do you suggest they do?

[@atulgupta1606]

It's more of a circus especially watching it in this era 2023.. But the best part is all the 5 umpires in the series were very consistent 😅😂

[@0Zolrender0]

Just one of the Reasons why Chucka is < than the great Warnie.

[@AdvaitThakur]

Someone to umpire: U have to raise the finger when the Ball hit the Pads. Umpire after giving out: Oh that's fun 😌