Were there any particular problems in this game? Well, I didn't think so. I was sure about the LBW that a player asked me about, and in other points I gave a caught behind that was pretty guaranteed. In the first innings I gave the LBW that I already mentioned, and which the player asked later, at the innings break, where I thought it had hit.
I was then very circumspect, as I thought that perhaps I was concentrating on line, but not paying enough attention to height. But the Otago Country innings opened with an LBW appeal early on, and it was so plumb I gave it. I wonder if Green Island thought I was an easy umpire, because they then appealed for half a dozen chances, which I gave not out. When I mentioned this to my other umpire, he said that it was perhaps a game, to see who could appeal the fastest and most enthusiastically. I did not mind it, as I was sure that the ball was going down leg side.
Funnily enough, at the end of the game, someone said, 'good decisions' to me, though I don't know if it was ironic, or a mickey-take, or to tease the guy who had complained...
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