Talk:Billy Doctrove

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[edit] "Controversy" section removed

See Talk:Darrell Hair for the reasons why, but essentially this bit, written by User:Sjorford:

Wikipedia is not a news service, and especially not an up-to-the-second gossip service

is the reason. I agree with that entirely; we should wait until we have hard facts before writing about this. Loganberry (Talk) 17:12, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "A 'not out' man"?

Doctrove seems to get a bit of (apparently fairly good-natured) stick on the cricket coverage for "having been Don Bradman in a previous life", and other such imputations that he inclines towards giving batsmen not out. Given that decisions in televised games get analysed to death, and that the ICC are supposed to track the accuracy of their umpires, is there any statistical basis for this belief? (Even if it's true, I'm sure there's reason to think it's as important to be consistent than to be strictly accurate.) Alai 00:17, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A worthy umpire?

Points that should be included in the artice, but probably won't.

• Gives an impression of little or no intelligence in his speech or work.
• Other umpires are forced to jump to his defence every time he cocks-up.
• Afraid to give batsmen out in LBW appeals.
• Was actually going to SUPPORT Darrell Hair in his racism case. Did he actually believe that the ICC were only protecting him because he was black? Was Doctrove himself trying to say that he should also have been reprimanded? More likely is that he didn't really know what was going on and simply did whatever Darrell Hair told him to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.195.166.92 (talk) 16:56, 28 November 2007 (UTC)