Aged umpires batting on despite poor decisions

Joel Garner

To the multitude of troubles that undermine West Indies cricket on an almost daily basis, Joel Garner highlighted another last week. It is the standard of umpiring.

Delivering his comments with the same devastating directness he did with the ball 30 years ago as the game’s tallest and most imposing fast bowler, the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) president and West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) director said: “The time is right when we should get the people who cannot give good decisions out of the cricket.”

He was specifically against “a lot