Asoka de Silva

[acbizz]

Whats wrong with this guy ?

Either he doesn't know the rules or doesn't like our batemen.

[Edited on 23-10-2003 by acbizz]

[Edited on 24-10-2003 by acbizz]

[Sham]

He is an incompetent umpire. He didn't give atleast two plumb LBWs yesterday, one for Tresco and one for Thorpe, the two highest scorers for England. I don't know how this guy continues to be on ICC Elite Panel of umpires. Someone must love him.

[tnb]

If some one breaks down his wrong decisions it will come out that most of them are against brown or blacks. He surely is very tentative in judging matters against the whites. He is a good example of a house slave.

[Big Cat]

[Edited on 24-10-2003 by Big Cat]

[acbizz]

De Silva and his friends

"See No Evil, Speak No Evil, Hear No Evil"

[Edited on 23-10-2003 by acbizz]

[opening_batsman]

Asoka is a Joke he should never umpire again after his performance. Does he know what LBW stands for. How can you win when it 11 against 12. Rafique has been robbed of wickets because of this man's incompetence.
Trescothick was plumb on 94 and Thorpe was plumb on 43 - they got 113 and 64 which is an extra 40 runs that they shouldn't have got.

[Runtings]

No not again.....what has he got against bd.

Javed Omar just went out for lbw by him when tv replay shows 'hugh' inside edge.

quote cricinfo:

'tv replays shows that Omar got a huge inside edge on to his pad, once again Asoka de Silva gets it wrong!'

[Sami]

dhor betare... bd charte deya uchit na... onek jalaitese beta.. ei match e jodi hari shob dosh ei ahammok umpire er...

[acbizz]

From Wisden Bulletin :

Omar took his chances against the new ball, swinging the bat to good effect and increasing the lead as well his handy partnership with Rahman. But Omar's fighting innings came to an unlucky end when Asoka de Silva gave him lbw to a slower ball from Hoggard. The ball would have hit middle, but Omar got a clear inside edge onto his pad (219 for 6). England needed all the help they could get, but in the end even that wicket was small relief.

MAN THIS GUY IS ASKING FOR IT. I WISH I WERE IN DHAKA STADIUM NOW.
mad:

" jalo jalo agun jalo
asokar ....... agun jalo eksathe"

[fwullah]

I think this guy gives out purely on the basis of purely a batsman's reputation.

Habibul Bashar is a good reputed batsman in his eyes, and so he gets a 'not out' decision when he clearly pulls the ball - like in the world cup, Sumon did not deserve to get all those 50 runs that he got, and then Javed is not a good reputed batsman in his eyes, and so gets the 'out' decision.

[rafiq]

sham or someone said we should write a letter. just had an idea - how about starting an online petition against him at petitiononline.com? It's free and someone has to draft a brief appeal letter to the ICC asking that de SIlva be removed from the elite umpires panel. it's not just against BD, there are examples against other teams as well. if you float it across major cricket boards, maybe there will be quite a few signatures. then simply point the icc towards the appeal/signatures. probably won't do us any good but it will be fun to watch the signatures pile up and some of the comments!!

[acbizz]

Is this asoka"s photo ?

[Carte Blanche]

I faxed a letter to ICC about Asoka's umpiring issue. Also sent e-mails to some BD newspapers (specially the english ones, I couldn't find observer's contact address though) asking them to shed some more light on such dubious umpiring. As for the letter to ICC, I doubt they would give a crap about the whinings of some avid BD fan, but hey, no harm trying eh?

[rafiq]

you can get hundreds/thousands of signatures in no time with petitiononline, so it won't just be a few bd fans (may be wishful thinking on my part though)

[Mahmood]

Normally, an official cricket board sends in a written complaint to ICC about an Umpire. Then ICC takes it seriously, and the umpire gets reviewed.

In this case, our BCB did nothing. So this will continue and we fans will have to suffer.

BCB probably won't do anything this time also.

[acbizz]

I just bought a domain name out of anger.
www.bangla-army.com

I will post asoka's photo under the heading "The World Dumbest Umpire"

feeling good now

[Nasif]

acbizz you da man!

go bangla-army go....

[Mahmood]

Make sure to put some catchy keyword (international cricket, test odi, bangladesh cricket, etc) on the meta tag of the index file. Also, if you feel like, put a link for true tiger fans to find their den.

Do you need a place to host the domain?

[Mahmood]

BCB has decided to make official written complain against Ashoka.

This will do us good. Even if he doesnt get decomissioned, ICC will try their best not to let him umpire another BD match.

It is late, but a good decision.

[Sami]

Originally posted by acbizz
I just bought a domain name out of anger.
www.bangla-army.com

I will post asoka's photo under the heading "The World Dumbest Umpire"

feeling good now

WOW...

to rajputro: Thats great news

[Edited on 24-10-2003 by radicalsami]

[NADIR]

I dont why he is still in ICC panel. He has given plenty bad decision and never try imporve his performance. Does ICC has any panel to check and performance of a Umpire.

[Tehsin]

Any idea what they are talking about ? I mised the game:

Former captain Nasser Hussain also failed again following his first innings nought.

He was out lbw for 17 after surviving two other good shouts and twice edging the ball through slip.

cricketnext

[chinaman]

Rafiq, excellent idea. This time probably we wouldn't need it, but as things unfold, we'll have to go for it pretty soon.

[cricman]

I had to dig this up after today

[Protic]

Cricman GREAT WORK!! I needed a place to bash at Asoka the ash De Silva......
WATS UP WITH THIS GUY ??? DAMNNNNNN..HE's A LOW LIFEEEEEEEE