9 July 2007

Monitoring of umpires in India

As Cricket Burble followers may have guessed by now, I think it's just a matter of time before all decisions are made through the use of technology. The BCCI will be looking at umpiring decisions through the use of some software that runs while looking at video recordings of domestic matches...you can see the article here.

It will be interesting to see what the BCCI learn about the quality of umpiring decisions through this software. I suspect they may be able to prove, no doubt after some huffing and puffing as the BCCI struggle to do anything efficiently, that even the best umpire isn't as accurate as technology, despite the obvious limitations. If they do that, it will be one step further towards the day when all decisions are made through the use of technology.

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