People

People tell me you've got to move with the times," the long retired Bird told a national daily from Yorkshire on Tuesday, "But this a sad development for cricket, because the sanctity of an umpire's authority is what has kept the game running going back into history. If this trial in Sri Lanka is successful, and is adopted on a permanent basis, then you will find the quality of the umpire will be gone.""All the authority is now taken away from him, so he won't think much on his own. The game will be run by electronic aides. People like myself, who liked only to give their own decisions and think on their own, are finished. All the big umpires I have talked to here in England feel they want to give their own decisions, but that's gone now."