The man in white is (not) always right
Updated On: 26 July, 2023 02:02 PM IST | Srijanee Majumdar
Umpire-player altercations are rare on the cricket field, but nothing comes close to Harmanpreet Kaur`s finger-wagging exchange with the on-field umpires
Team India (Pic: AFP)
Amazingly enough, ‘a cricket umpire is like the geyser in the bathroom, we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order’. Thus wrote Sir Neville Cardus, who has rarely been heralded for his plumbing mastery.
His assessment of umpires was to the point, though, and we have noticed them all too frequently in recent weeks. Muhammad Kamruzzaman and Tanvir Ahmed have attracted the greatest attention.
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