David Warner has called for cricket umpires to operate under a greater level of accountability by having the accuracy of their history of decisions displayed as statistics on scoreboards during matches. The drastic call comes after Warner was left incredulous and furious with a Joel Wilson lbw decision that sent him on his way during Australia’s win over Sri Lanka at the Cricket World Cup in India.
Australia secures their first Cricket World Cup win. The veteran Aussie opener was struck on the pad by left-arm seamer Dilsan Madushanka at Lucknow on Monday and, after being triggered by Wilson, immediately sent the decision upstairs to be reviewed. With TV umpire Chris Brown allowing the decision to stand after the hawk-eye technology determined that the ball would have gone on to clip Warner’s leg stump, the dismissed batter was ropeable.