While players grab headlines with dazzling performances, cricket's backbone rests on the quiet authority of its umpires and match officials. They are the custodians of fairness, the interpreters ...

Streakers, future Test stars, father-to-son succession and the fallout of sandpaper-gate — Lawrence Key has seen it all in nearly 40 years umpiring South Australian Premier Cricket. The ...

Just mugging up the law will not take you anywhere," said Chaudhary ... "Also, in modern cricket, umpires need to be extremely fit. We have a lot of work to do on that front also." ...

Why have you ... umpire Taufel told Channel 7. "With the technology protocols, we do have a hierarchy of redundancy and when the umpire sees a clear deflection off the bat there is no need to ...