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Ponting blames it on umpire burnout
Melbourne: Apparently conceding that umpiring blunders marred the Sydney cricket Test, Australian captain Ricky Ponting has called for stretching International Cricket Council’s (ICC) 10-member Elite Panel, saying some officials are making errors due to exhaustion.
“I’ve been talking to the ICC for some time about getting more umpires on the elite panel. We talk a lot as players about how much we’re playing. But the same applies to umpires,” Ponting said. “The umpires could be in Pakistan last week doing a Test match and they’ll be in Perth next week doing us, with only a couple of days in between,” he was quoted as saying by Herald Sun.
Revealing that English umpire Mark Benson, who stood in Sydney, had told him he had been on the road for four months, Ponting said, “I’m sure after four months he (Benson) thought he was as good as gold, but he wouldn’t know how tired he was until he gets a break.”.”
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