Bye bye Billy

[JUBJUB]

Billy Bowden has been dropped from New Zealands international panel of umpires

http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/story/1026869.html

 

[rdhopkins2]

Billy was a character. Loved him or hated him. Billy bows out.



Billy calls stumps on his career

 

[Carl Hooper]

sad

was a part of many Aussie summer, remember throwing bent fingers at everything back in the early to mid 2000s in them backyard battles

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Was a big fan myself, even if he was never the best umpire going around. Always gave me a laugh and kept things light.

 

[damochandler]

good. he was terrible. he just wanted to be the center of attention and he was looking for the camera all the time

 

[The_Reaper]

Not even the worst umpire around

 

[HBF]

Not even the worst umpire around

Agreed.
Sad to see him go.
Hard to get an LBW from him. Ball almost had to be hitting middle stump half way up to get him to put his bent finger up.

 

[Smoooothy]

I must be the only person around that liked seeing him and buchnor apply their craft - as poor as they were sometimes

 

[eth-dog]

Will be missed. Great character of the game.

 

[damochandler]

Agreed.
Sad to see him go.
Hard to get an LBW from him. Ball almost had to be hitting middle stump half way up to get him to put his bent finger up.

 

[HBF]

Not hitting enough of middle for Billy to give that out.

 

[damochandler]

would have ripped all 3 out of the ground

 

[Hellgood]

What level of mouthbreathing would you need to reach to actually go to the effort of creating this?

 

[worbod]

Billy posing in front of a scoreboard between Surrey Second XI and Derbyshire Second XI in 2003 after the Surrey team had posted 552 for the first wicket.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

To be honest on first view I thought that was going down leg side.

 

[getthefooty]

To be honest on first view I thought that was going down leg side.

Yeah, I've seen worse decisions. Hard to tell it tailed away at the last moment in real time.

 

[damochandler]

It's nearly hit his back leg on the in front of middle

 

[Sammo360]

lol

One of the comms wasn't impressed.

Yes, Billy wasn't the greatest umpire,but he was better than the likes of Bucknor, Rudi, Tiffin, Hair etc

 

[damochandler]

lol

One of the comms wasn't impressed.

Yes, Billy wasn't the greatest umpire,but he was better than the likes of Bucknor, Rudi, Tiffin, Hair etc

Next over he missed the plumbest lbw ever

 

[corbies]

That decision only cost Australia 2 runs as Warnie got Flintoff a couple of overs later to end the innings. Anyone remember how many runs we lost that test by? * you Billy.

 

[Belnakor]

he was the 3rd umpire that gave Warne out on the 3rd wicket of Harbijan's hat trick after not even looking at the 2nd angle which showed a clear bump ball.

Add to the 2nd wicket which had Gilchrist LBW to a ball that pitched a foot outside leg (and he hit it) and you have the only hat trick taken with only 1 wicket.

 

[damochandler]

The second one

 

[Truckosaurus]

he was the 3rd umpire that gave Warne out on the 3rd wicket of Harbijan's hat trick after not even looking at the 2nd angle which showed a clear bump ball.

Add to the 2nd wicket which had Gilchrist LBW to a ball that pitched a foot outside leg (and he hit it) and you have the only hat trick taken with only 1 wicket.

Nah, pretty sure those were all wickets. Only Indian players get given out incorrectly, because racism. Ergo, the correct decisions were made.

 

[Kram]

Poor umpire and lame attention whore.