Take a bow, Tony Hill

I think I like Tony Hill, the Kiwi umpire currently doing duty in the England-Pakistan test at Trent Bridge. He has been very good with the LBW decisions (a trying task when bowlers are moving the ball around): he can both take his time and be rapid-fire in his adjudications. A man to keep an eye on, just like Messrs. Steve Davis and Ian Gould (a pair I praised in these pages in March).

And, yes, this is part of my "if-we-diss-umpires-when-they-stuff-it-up-then-we-should-send-'em-flowers-when-they-get-it-right" campaign.