The spat between the West Indies great Michael Holding and the International Cricket Council over what commentators can and can’t say on-air has been on since last week. This has been an atrocious bit of umpiring by both.”ICC’s displeasureThe ICC did not take kindly to Holding’s criticism, and dashed off an email to all commentators, asking them to use restraint. This is exactly the kind of thing we need to avoid putting on-air,” Bevan wrote. We should also be very careful not to look to create controversy around an event or match at any time”. Is the objective to protect the umpires even when they do a bad job?” Holding wrote back.

Source: Indian Express June 12, 2019 08:25 UTC