Brisbane: Noballs by English fast bowler Ben Stokes in the Ashes series between England and Australia have opened the floodgates of umpiring standards.
According to the details, English all-rounder Ben Stokes was in the news again. In the first Test of the Ashes series, when he came to bowl against Australia, he bowled four consecutive nine balls in his first over. Surprisingly, no field Didn't catch the eye of the umpire, except for the ball on which David Warner was declared out.
Not only that, in the next 8 overs, Ben Stokes bowled 10 more balls out of which the umpire could only note 2, foreign media have raised their fingers on the standard of umpiring.
The Rawalpindi Express was also shocked at the poor quality of umpiring in the Brisbane Test. In his statement on the social networking site Twitter, Shoaib Akhtar wrote that how did 14 noballs miss out on field umpires in five overs?
The third umpire usually informs the field umpires about a new ball through technology, but on the second day of the Brisbane test, the technology was not applicable.
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