In a match last year, a player umpire called a bowler for throwing.
This is NOT what should be happening in QSDCA cricket matches.
Under Appendix F there is a careful procedure involving Suspect action reporting, follow up actions and avoiding controversy. The idea is to AVOID inflaming the arguments about this. To make it constructive and positive rather than something to cause emnity between teams.
The procedure is detailed in Appendix F and quite clearly says that report and follow up action can be initiated by an official badged umpire only.
So where does it say anything in the rules/regs or appendixes about what we want player umpires to do?
It seems to me that there are two possible types of proposal.
1. Instruct player umpires to IGNORE all suspect actions entirely and NEVER call bowlers for it.
2. Or develop some kind of simpler suspect action reporting procedure that perhaps generates some kind of follow up inspection in the next or a future match.
Either way we need to make some kind of decision.
Even if we make a policy directive from the
Management Committee it needs to written down somewhere so that it can found
and used when needed.
Michael Fisher suggested recently we could allow the player umpire to make mention & refer to the player’s Club "Coach" or Club executive. This wouldn’t be recorded in the official doubtful actions database.
This does not NEED a Playing Regulation but it does need to be managed.
This does not NEED a Playing Regulation but it does need to be managed.
ABM, 03-Jun-2019
Update 17-Jun-2019
Update 17-Jun-2019
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