Talk:Billy Doctrove

"Controversy" section removed
See Talk:Darrell Hair for the reasons why, but essentially this bit, written by User:Sjorford:


 * Wikipedia is not a news service, and especially not an up-to-the-second gossip service

is the reason. I agree with that entirely; we should wait until we have hard facts before writing about this. Loganberry (Talk) 17:12, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

"A 'not out' man"?
Doctrove seems to get a bit of (apparently fairly good-natured) stick on the cricket coverage for "having been Don Bradman in a previous life", and other such imputations that he inclines towards giving batsmen not out. Given that decisions in televised games get analysed to death, and that the ICC are supposed to track the accuracy of their umpires, is there any statistical basis for this belief? (Even if it's true, I'm sure there's reason to think it's as important to be consistent than to be strictly accurate.) Alai 00:17, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Questionable Paragraph
"Despite being involved in these controversies, Doctrove is still regarded as one of the world's top umpires,but some time 13 wrong decision particular of wide ball and his not accurate decision making, along with his relaxed approach on-field, has earned him the respect of the players and has seen him through the difficult points in his career. He was one of the umpires very much at the heart of the 2007 Cricket World Cup which took place in his native West Indies."

Perhaps someone can enlighten us as to precisely what this is trying to say? It appears to contradict itself within the space of one sentence. --80.7.119.176 (talk) 23:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)