CONTRIBUTED - Dashawn Thomas of Duhaney Park (left), tries to get by Excelsior's Akeem Gabay during their CB Chicken/Insports Primary school competition last Thursday. Excelsior won 4-0. ROSEAU, CMC,
DOMINICAN TEST UMPIRE Billy Doctrove has defended the standard of officiating in international cricket.
The 50-year old Doctrove told CMC Sports that while mistakes were made by umpires, the success rate for accurate decisions was much higher.
"Mistakes will always be part of an umpire's role. We go out there to try our best to ensure we get 100 per cent accuracy but we will never be able to get that because we are only human beings," Doctrove told CMC Sports.
"Don't matter what you do you will always get umpires getting mistakes but when you look at it generally I think that the best umpires will always make the least mistakes and that's how the umpires are judged."
He added: "Generally the best umpires get an accuracy percentage of well over 92 or 93 per cent and that is very good. "
Doctrove, who has stood in four Tests to date, was recently given the biggest assignment of his career when he was chosen to stand in the opening Test of the upcoming three-Test series between Australia and South Africa "Down Under".
A member of the Emirates International Panel of ICC Umpires, Doctrove will stand in that Test with Jamaican Steve Bucknor, a member of the Elite Panel of Umpires.
"In relation to the Elite Panel, the ICC has decided they want the best umpires in the world to officiate at most Test matches and I have no qualms about that," Doctrove said.
"Everybody is looking for quality so as long as they can decide to the best of their knowledge who is the best, I have no problem with that."
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