Joel Wilson: Umpire Watch

[mak36]

Some very questionable umpiring from him. Some he has got blatantly wrong and all the marginal decisions have gone against Pakistan.

How long before he is dropped?

 

[Boi]

How has he been allowed to officiate in Tests? Was poor in LOIs yet still upgraded to Test umpire.

 

[hadi123]

http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/showthread.php?240236-Unsung-hero-of-PSL-Umpire-Joel-Wilson

Mods there is another thread on him here, feel free to merge, funnily enough lots of praise for him there.

He seems like an honest trier and looks like a nice guy so I have a bit of a soft spot for him but he has made lots of awful decisions every time I've seen him umpire.

 

[angrypathan]

Goodbye Joel Wilson

Two incorrect decisions in the last 15 minutes. Probably in double figures now for this match. Surely that's got to be the end of his career, at least in the Test format?

 

[Mamoon]

Ponting was right. Neutral umpire business is nonsense in today’s day and age. Umpires should be picked for their competency and not nationality.

No one can justify why an excellent umpire like Richard Kettleborough shouldn’t have officiated this match ahead of Joel Wilson, simply because he is English.

 

[Mueez]

Awful umpire.

 

[Ahmed_99]

It is frustrating obviously becuase of the sheer number of mistakes he's made. However, I do sympathize with him because it's such a tough job to concentrate for so long over 5 days.

I hope he gets a break rather than removed from umpiring these big games and hopefully he comes back stronger

 

[silentkiller187]

Joel Wilson is Tv umpire next game and back on the field for the 3rd, going to be an interesting summer, thank god for DRS otherwise the fallout would have been something else.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Neutral umpires are not needed for matches involving white countries and South Africa.These countries are mature enough not to blame the umpires.India-Pakistan or Bangladesh -India matches need neutral umpires.I remember a WI-Pakistan series where home umpires cheated and denied Pakistan the victory.

 

[Last Monetarist]

Needs to be demoted after this match, there's no way he should be allowed to umpire in the third test.

 

[hadi123]

He's made some good decisions today. He gave Buttler not out lbw, it was shown to be umpires call and the Bairstow one was a good spot that it hit the glove. He looks like a really nice guy so I have a soft spot for him.

 

[Hasan123]

The umpiring has been farcical in this test.

 

[Chief Destroyer]

He's been atrocious his entire career. Only became a problem when he did it in the Ashes. Never too late I guess. I've no idea how he was selected.

 

[Boi]

Alarm bells should’ve been ringing when this guy was making bowlers in LOIs before they even thought of giving him a Test umpiring role. There clearly is no performance based selection of umpires from ICC.

 

[sweep_shot]

Joel had a shocking Test match. Umpiring standard hasn't been that great lately.

 

[The Bald Eagle]

He tried his best to let Aussies down in BGT
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One of world cricket's most famous umpires, Joel Wilson, was axed by the ICC this week, and the statistics behind it might explain the decision

Wilson was at the centre of several controversial decisions over the years, with a stack of those involving and coming against Australia.

Perhaps the most memorable came in the 2019 Ashes series when Wilson turned down an appeal to dismiss Ben Stokes during his blistering match-winning ton at Headingley.

At the time, England needed two runs to win and had only one wicket in hand, but Australia had used all of their reviews

"That's a hard one to take, I must admit," then-captain Tim Paine said at the time.

"I can't fathom why or how that wasn't given out ... England had two referrals left."

While he became the butt of online jokes over the years, the numbers behind Wilson's demise would make the decision from the game's governing body less of a surprise.

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, more than a third of Wilson's decisions that were referred to DRS last year were overturned - the highest rate among all umpires.

Wilson made several poor decisions in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy last summer before more recently reporting Australia's Matt Kuhnemann for a suspect action.

Source: wws