‘Can you guess which umpire?’ – Sachin Tendulkar’s post has fans recalling Steve Bucknor’s umpiring blunders

‘Can you guess which umpire’ – Sachin Tendulkar’s recent post has fans recalling Steve Bucknor’s umpiring blunders (Source – Getty Images)

Legendary Indian batter, Sachin Tendulkar was a force to be reckoned with when he donned the batting gear. He is one of the few cricketers the sport has ever seen who has dominated in every part of the world where cricket is played.

Moreover, in Australia, where the subcontinent batters struggled over time, he emerged as the batter against whom the mighty Aussies spent extra time planning during team meetings. A recent post of the former India cricketer in the social media domain had the fans recollecting the infamous Perth Test in 2008. The former Umpire Steve Bucknor ruled the decisions against the batters as Australia were potentially favoured.

From LBW’s (Leg Before Wicket dismissal) to the ball taking the edge of the bat, the replays raised questions over fatal decisions. Tendulkar in his recent post, stood in front of giant trees structurally convoluting to appear as three stumps. He then captioned and asked the fans to guess the umpire who viewed stumps this big.

“Can you guess which umpire made the stumps feel this big?” the 51-year-old wrote on his ‘X’ handle.

Here’s Tendulkar’s latest post on Instagram:  

Bucknor’s love affair with Tendulkar’s unfair dismissals

The West Indies umpire was touted as one of the greatest umpires of his time. Not only Perth, he committed blunders in 2003 and 2005. In 2003, he adjudged Tendulkar LBW wrongly against the former Australian pacer, Jason Gillespie. Bucknor did not stop there, the umpire who was termed “slow death,” for his reputation of precise judgement came back in 2005 to wrongly send the Tendulkar walking.

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In 2005, during a Test between India and Pakistan at Eden Gardens, Tendulkar tried to drive an outside off delivery which swung outward. He was given out after the caught behind appeal, only to know as replies showed a glaring gap between the bat and the ball. Bucknor after retiring, admitted that the mistakes took place due to the pressure umpires face and were part of human error.