Cricket: Bird criticises the use of technology

Former umpire Dickie Bird has criticised the use of replays and technology to help the umpires. Bird, who received the OBE from Prince Charles, stepped down in 1996 after a 23-year career as an international umpire and is remembered as one of cricket’s finest umpires. “I do miss umpiring, but it’s completely changed now, umpiring is done by a machine,” he told the Daily Mail. “In my era, we made the decisions on the field.”

Published in The Express Tribune, May 17^th, 2012.