Pakistan’s strongest candidate to win an award this year, Aleem Dar was unlucky to get the David Shepherd trophy for the Umpire of the Year 2012 for the straight fourth time during the ICC Awards function which was held in Colombo on Saturday night.
Aleem Dar lost the battle to fellow Sri Lankan umpire Kumar Dharmasena who won the Umpire of the Year for the first time.
The other nominees were five-time winner Simon Taufel, New Zealand’s Billy Bowden, England’s Richard Kettleborough and Australia’s Rodney Tucker.
“This award means a lot to me, after playing cricket for 12 years. It’s for the Sri Lankan umpires and the community who looked after my growth,” Dharmasena said after accepting his award from Graham Gooch. “Honestly, I feel I had a great year on and off the field and I feel having been a cricketer has helped me with my decision making as an umpire and to give better decisions.”
The David Shepherd Trophy for ICC Umpire of the Year was voted on by the 10 current Test captains and the Elite Panel of ICC match referees and is partly based on the umpires’ performance statistics. Dharmasena, who made his international debut as an umpire in 2009, joined the Elite Panel in May 2011. In the voting period he stood in seven Tests and 13 ODI’s.
Please correct the headline.. Should read:
"Dar unlucky NOT to get 4th Award in a row"
the mistake is repeated within the article as well…..
This is not a mistake, unlucky means that he was not lucky to get a 4th award in a row. You can say that as he was not lucky to get 4th award in a row, or he was unlucky to get 4th award in a row.The sentence is gramaticaly correct.
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