Asoka de Silva interviewed by David Rayvern Allen

Reference

MCC/AAL/3/101

Date:

2005

Level of description

item

Extent

1 CD: 27 minutes 56 seconds

Part of

David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)

Scope and Content

1 CD, Asoka de Silva, umpire, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 6 tracks.

Track 1: [0:00-0:23] Introduction and brief biography by Rayvern Allen, [0:24-1:05] de Silva talks about his international career, [1:06-1:32] de Silva talks about his international debut, [1:33-1:57] de Silva talks about enjoying one-day cricket, [1:58-2:21] de Silva talks about playing club cricket, [2:22-2:52] de Silva talks about going back to club cricket after his international career and doing coaching, [2:53-4:56] de Silva talks about playing for Leicestershire 2nd XI in 1986 and his experience of playing in England.

Track 2: [0:00-1:16] de Silva talks about coaching in Bangladesh, [1:17-2:14] de Silva talks about wanting to be a coach and becoming an umpire instead and his career as an umpire, [2:15-3:47] de Silva talks about the challenges of being an umpire and need to minimise mistakes, [3:48-4:21] de Silva talks about being okay with technology assistance, [4:22-5:02] de Silva talks about the implementation of technology.

Track 3: [0:00-1:05] de Silva talks about teams getting challenges, [1:06-2:10] de Silva talks de Silva talks about how an umpire can change a decision until a batsman has crossed the boundary, [2:11-3:50] de Silva talks about umpires referring decisions and the need to get correct decisions, [3:51-4:37] de Silva talks about batsmen walking and the spirit of the game, [4:38-4:49] Rayvern Allen talks about ways of getting out.

Track 4: [0:00-1:36] Rayvern talks about the 10 ways of getting out and twice giving out for handling the ball, [1:37-3:50] de Silva talks about how batsmen get timed out, [3:51-4:49] de Silva talks about ways batsmen can be run out.

Track 5: [0:00-0:38] de Silva talks about an extraordinary run out in the IPL, [0:39-1:56] de Silva talks about his umpire duties on the morning of a match, [1:57-4:15] de Silva talks about his focus and concentration techniques. [4:16-5:02] de Silva and Rayvern Allen talk about underarm bowling.

Track 6: [0:00-0:09] Rayvern Allen and de Silva talks about bowlers swapping arms, [0:10-2:03] de Silva talks about the proposal to rotate umpiring officials during the day, [2:04-3:11] de Silva talks about umpiring in every major country apart from Australia and his future ambitions.



A back-up copy of this CD is included.

Associations

Ellawalakankanamge Asoka Ranjit de Silva
David Rayvern Allen
Test Match Special
Denagamage Proboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene
Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara
Duleep Mendis
John Charles Woodcock

Subject

umpires, umpiring, , cricket in Sri Lanka

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 CD: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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