Rating 10 best umpires of all time in cricket
Not just the cricketers, some of these umpires to have received great love and appreciating from the fraternity over the last few decades.
4. Billy Bowden
If we talk about cricket’s most entertaining figures in umpiring, the first one would be the Late great David Shepherd and the second would be Billy Bowden. The man with the crooked finger, Bowden hogged a lot of limelight with his unique way of signaling boundaries, wickets or others while he was in the middle.
Bowden officiated for the first time in 1995 in an ODI game between New Zealand and Sri Lanka. I 2002, the Kiwi was included in the Emirates Panel of International Umpires and from then on, he was the global map of cricket. He became the youngest umpire to stand in 100 ODIs in 2007, a record which was later bettered by Simon Taufel.
In an illustrious career which lasted nearly 21 years, Bowden umpired for 84 Tests, 200 ODIs and 24 T20Is. Another one of the remarkable achievements of his careers includes not getting a single decision overturned in the 2011 World Cup, which meant he had a 100% accuracy rate in decision making.
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