Backnor a victom of "Racism" by ICC?
posted January 9, 2008 - 1:31amThough Backnor is a blind and deaf umpire who deserves to be out of scene for now, I recommend him a quality time at Caribbean beach and think of his career and decisions which changed the results of Test matches. ICC had no other choice but to remove him from India Australia series.
Question here is why only Backnor? What about Mark Benson and third umpire Oxenford?
Why only a black umpire is removed from the series, "Benson is not officiating in the third test so there is nothing we can do", this is what the ICC said when asked the question on Benson's suspension.
If we show sympathy beyond our limits, field umpires can be forgiven (this not going to happen BTW), error from third umpire Oxenford is just totally unacceptable and he is very much eligible for a ban more than any other player or official (we are talking about giving Symonds not out on stump appeal in second test).
A Cricketing View give us a chance to forgive Backnor (but not gonna happen I told you) “Bucknor's decision 1st ball when Symonds came in to bat was a masterpiece of umpiring. All the history was shut out and only that one ball was considered. All the proper questions were asked and Symonds rightly got the benefit of the doubt because he's a tall man and was well forward, was playing a shot and the ball had a really long way to travel”
On the other hand Third Umpires tell us to hate them"Test umpires are well paid professionals who should be able to do their job competently. When they fail to do so they should be subject to some form of disciplinary procedure, as most people failing to do their job properly would expect to face."
"A player's career is in the hands of the umpire, with decisions leading to the stats and performance indicators that decide if a player continues for their team or not. When this is a career at the highest level chances to come back are often at a premium. The old adage that luck evens itself out over a career is made nonsense if all the bad luck comes in a player's first few matches and they never have a career."
Uncle John support the Australian team behaviour though in a way of his own(I love this guy) "We are. We’re not fu©king @ssholes, mind you, but we are @ssholes. Australia has one culture, winning, be it Grammys, Oscars or World Cups, we do it at an amazingly high level. If we aren’t the best sporting nation on earth, we are pretty damn close. "
Just to add, in this test mach Backnor was an Australian @sshole.
All this is done (removing Backnor from current series) just to make the BCCI happy enough to keep going the tour, which shows the power of money and there is no harm in this, keeping US government in mind :) .
Benson is the man who made equaling blunders in Sydney test with Backnor and third umpire Oxenford hence should be equal partner to the punishment given to Backnor.
Is there anything ICC going to do about Benson and Oxenford? If they don’t then I have no idea what to call this other than “racism”.
One more question come to our mind is what if the ICC panel reverse the decision of Match referee? Is this going to be the case of hurting someone sentiment by overlooking the statement of subcontinent peoples over white skins?
I can imagine Proctor in future saying that while making the decision “I was Black, not a White”.
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