UDRS – An Appeal to the members of the Royal College 1960 Group Sarath Abeysundera https://www.facebook.com/sarath.abeysundera?pnref=story Ever since we joined the Kindergarten at the Royal Primary School, cricket has been part of our lives. If there was one game that bound us together right through our school career and even beyond that was cricket. It was the lifeblood of Royalists, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s. Cricket walked with us like a shadow and gave us a level of excitement that was unmatched by any other sport. The catchword ‘hora umpire’ was very much part of the cricket culture in our growing years. We knew when a wrong decision was given by an umpire. We could do nothing to overturn it, except shout ‘Hora Umpire’. Wrong decisions of umpires have brought miserable outcomes, distorted results, crippled careers and sometimes even strained relations between cricket playing nations. With the introduction of ...
