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Sydney: With the umpiring howlers against India in the second Test kicking up a storm, former Australian skipper Steve Waugh has urged the ICC to do away with the outdated neutral officials policy as it prevented the world’s best umpire — local Simon Taufel — from standing in the series. “The world’s No. 1 umpire for the past three years is Simon Taufel from Sydney and he should be out in the middle making the crucial decisions under pressure for this is what the best aspire to,” Waugh wrote in his column for the Daily Telegraph. Blunders by West Indian Steve Bucknor and Englishman Mark Benson hit India hard on the first dayof the second Test against Australia. Neutral umpiresWaugh said the concept of neutral umpires was valid only in the times when technology was not there to assist on-field officials.
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