Worst Umpiring Ever In A Single Test Series - Shameful Umpiring

In the entire cricket history, there are many series where the umpiring has beenn terrible and shameful but in my opinion this series between Sri Lanka and england has some of the worst umpiring decisions of All Time. Shocking 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.

[@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.

[@merajsamarasinghe985]

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

[@garwoc216]

Umpires vs cricket!

[@user-zw2gf1vv6j]

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]

😂

[@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.

[@fosdyke71]

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

[@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.

[@Pilkie101]

​@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.

[@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"!

[@TurdBoi-tf5lf]

Chad Clive Lloyd

[@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

[@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

[@godiswatching301]

​@jishnurag😂😂

[@achmed82]

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

[@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.

[@mick4093]

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

[@stevecooksley]

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

[@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.

[@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 😊

[@user-jz6pq4zx3e]

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

[@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 🤣🤣

[@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.

[@manto7]

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

[@-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

[@jitendradubey384]

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

[@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...!!!!

[@piyushtiwari4190]

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

[@userKK2023]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@LordMarps]

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

[@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!

[@stevenprice6957]

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

[@makarandkinikar7786]

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

[@sashidharanr6802]

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 😅

[@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

[@HHM706]

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

[@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

[@TMQ1981]

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

[@indeed596]

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

[@damageincorporated8558]

Nasser Hussein's got a bloody cheek, haha

[@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!

[@user-jz6pq4zx3e]

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!

[@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 !!

[@pawanchettri3619]

Umpires were like let the bowlers have their day😂

[@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.

[@SeriousBartYT]

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

[@indraneelmandal29]

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

[@akamiguelsanchez9985]

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

[@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 😅

[@rickgrimes6794]

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

[@stratocaster1986able]

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

[@theplanetvoyager]

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

[@EditCrazy007]

Out is Not out and Not out is Out

[@laurieirwin2331]

Welcome to local cricket in Queensland

[@cricketfanatic9455]

Yesss

[@17_73]

Blind umpires have no place in cricket.

[@APKDeZ]

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

[@KM-br7oq]

Did anyone else do that nonsense opposite day in school? Where you answer everything in the opposite? Yeah....

[@tankthelord1178]

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

[@kenrickcampbell7406]

It was one of the main problems with umpires back in the day..... they just didn't know the basic rules. In England most umpires were ex test and county players, that made them the best.

[@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 😅😂

[@bradmenpes809]

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

[@johnofashdown7566]

I was there in Kandy. Still remember the loo. Jayasurya must’ve been about 20 yards from the boundary rope when his bat was on its way to the dressing room.

[@ashishnair12]

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

[@sandy_2314]

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

[@markarnold8160]

This was the Converse Decision series where Out is In and In is Out 😂😂

[@anandkishore3898]

UMPIRES NEED DRS documentary here 🤮🤮🤮

[@gohansaiyan5720]

The real meaning of Umpires being neutral 😂😂

[@ssingh8166]

That umpire is so bad at at umpiriring that if rhe bowler throws the ball in the desert he will say out

[@shags91]

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

[@user-jz6pq4zx3e]

Jayaprakash was horrible but Bucknor was on whole another level.

[@shags91]

@@user-jz6pq4zx3e 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

[@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.

[@KranthiKumar-xz8by]

thats the reason we havent seen this umpires again

[@jamescrydeman540]

My father in law taught me about extracting entertainment from the cricket commentators when the cricket itself was a bit dour. The manner in which the commentators try to9 conceal their biases add/subtracts so much Cricket has never been the same since that instruction, and ones I find most amusing are the ones that think they are too subtle to be detected, transfer to all another commentary, not only sport commentary.

[@itookallthenames]

Almost like roulette isn’t it

[@prasannapeiris8466]

This is the reason technology is so important. Even if it goes wrong at times we can be sure that it's unbiased.

[@DeltaEcho37]

Umpire Prakash has the distinct honor to be part of history. He took 3/0 helping Kumble take 10 for.😂😂

[@tejeshkumartawania1443]

meanwhile ind vs aus 2008 test series laughing in corner😂😂. steve bucknet as well

[@newsviewswithfaizanbangash]

Only things that made us laugh all the time is the sound of 'Halla Laa..Halla La ..Halla😂😂 by the Lankans

[@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

[@Doctor_Sudipto-Paediatrics]

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

[@arrv544]

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

[@ambalavanant]

They must have seen this before coming up with DRS😂

[@kiranbvsn9821]

Well! Players didn't realize that this match was a uno reverse match......

[@DarwaishBaba-iw2pv]

When umpires are in a hurry to finish match. 😂

[@colddiesel]

Dickie Bird at 90 would be better than this, and I would bring back David Shepherd if I could.

[@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.

[@beefcake502]

Sydney 2008 at the end of the test had incorrect decisions on both sides. I can even bring up the count and reference if you like. Indians just love playing the victim. Especially with their history of umpiring 😂😂😂😂

[@michaelmuldowney8]

Not corruption - just complete incompetence.

[@vivekbansal9788]

Any bad umpiring in Australia gets hyped up immediately. This is even worst

[@tararanganath9378]

Thank god for the review system!

[@jameskelso5311]

I never thought I could see in one Test Match such atrocious umpiring. A huge let down to both teams. English team in particular look rightly exasperated, but plenty of shockers both ways.

[@Non-Stick_Pan]

It seems like each bad decision was somehow trying to put right a previous bad decision and it got completely out of control, absolutely shameful.

[@njoyridin3928]

Literally everything out was called not out and vise versa 😂

[@jamesdunn9930]

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

[@Maximillian-Tiberius-Rex]

this is why we need technology in cricket

[@viewfield5]

One word describes the umpiring there..... conical ! If I had played on that series and been clean bowled, I would have stayed my ground and waited for the umpire to make a decision!!

[@gavvaashok7546]

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

[@Kaiserbill99]

I can understand umpires not seeing nicks to close fielders but the LBW decisions against England batsmen where the ball either pitched outside the line of the leg stump or struck the batsman playing a shot outside the line of the off stump were due to one one of two things: Corruption or pure ignorance of the rules i.e. incompetence.

[@trevorryan4448]

In my city PE in South Africa we see many bad umpiring decision like this in every match in all social and club cricket every week.

[@jmf_5]

Which year series is this?

[@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.

[@nolaw9880]

Even in gully cricket these Three umpires wouldn't survive 1 day 😂

[@stevet9938]

The first lbw is outrageous, I can't believe the Sri Lankans even appealed.

[@EnglishShuvro]

Commentators are very harsh when the decision goes against England.

[@kroome111]

5:51 & 6:09 shows how different it was before the review system. Main one I can think of is Broad nicking off but these are near enough the same