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Tring Tring… It’s the Umpire’s Call

Cricket has always been a game of fine margins. A ball missing or hitting the stumps by a few millimeters can decide matches, tournaments…

The Zak Butters incident has shone a terrible light on the AFL as a whole

Zak Butters has received a $1500 fine after his visit to the tribunal after his alleged abuse of umpire Nick Foot. In a league obsessed…

MLB Opening Week 2026: Scores, Statements & What We Learned from Baseball’s First Three Days

Dodgers shine, Pirates collapse, and the ABS era puts umpires on notice.”

What hockey umpires actually need — and why I built my own Apple Watch app

There’s a moment in almost every match where you realise you’re not just managing the game — you’re managing yourself. And that’s exactly…

World Baseball Classic: Did The Umpire Blow The Strike Call?

I’ve been sitting thinking about umpiring in the World Baseball Classic, and it seems they have missed a few calls. Many people are blaming…

T20 World Cup 2026: Ratnagiri native, umpire Paleker makes World Cup officiating debut in Mumbai

South Africa-based umpire Allahuddien Paleker, whose family roots trace back to Ratnagiri’s Shiv village in Maharashtra, made his region…

The Umpire’s Kingdom

The sun hung low over the field, casting long shadows across the diamond. The air was thick with the smell of freshly cut grass and the…

ECO Play Cricket Bluetooth External Scoreboards

I’ve recently added Play Cricket Scorer (PCS) as a connection into my Umpire Ball Counter app on the Bangle.js2 and this is some of the…

Shubman Gill vs the Umpires: A Justified Outburst or Overreaction?

The IPL 2025 match between Gujarat Titans and Sun Risers Hyderabad, held in the Narendra Modi Stadium, yet again, became the center of…

Parameterizing umpire biases using MLB Statcast data. Part 2.

In a previous post, I described how the size of the strike zone changes as a function of the count in the current at-bat. This was achieved…

Calling the Shots: The 10 Best Umpires in Cricket

Umpiring in cricket may seem easy, but it requires rare talent to judge unusual shots. Despite its difficulty, umpiring is not a popular…

Thanks for the memories

The seats weren’t anything special. Just four spots on metal bleachers above the third-base dugout. A perfect spot to heckle the umpires…

Ballplayer, Umpire, Drunkard; Gambler, Pickpocket, Preacher

Not Billy Sunday, but one of the game’s mystery men

Class A umpire shaken