Close on the heels of ICC's push for extended role for technology in the game, come damaging allegations from a reputed umpire who said TV production crews doctor images to show umpires in poor light and favour popular batsmen.
In a startling revelation, ICC Elite Panel umpire Steve Bucknor accused television companies of misusing technology which, he said, was creating mistrust between players and umpires.
"It has been known to happen where the technology has been used to make umpires look bad.
"Mats (the line graphic used to adjudge leg before decisions) have been moved, balls have disappeared, ball hitting the bat and only coming up into the fielder's hands, but between the bat and the hand, no ball is found and you are told, 'Sorry, we don't have that clip, we can't show it'," he was quoted as saying by the media in Port of Spain.
"It has happened. I've been in a game when it has happened," said Bucknor, who has stood in a world record 111 Tests and four World Cup finals.
"Sometimes nothing is shown because the batsman was a key batsman and getting out at that stage would have made life very difficult for that team.
"It all depends on who is operating the technology. I have been told that this ball is the one with which the batsman got out, but the one that is being shown is not the same one he got out with.
"It has been known to happen. When these things are happening, it makes life extremely difficult for the umpires. Who do you trust from there on you don't know," he was quoted as saying in Trinidad and Tobago Express.
