Simon Taufel recalls his conversation with Sachin Tendulkar after giving him out wrongly

Simon Taufel is arguably best umpire to have officiated gentleman's game. He has won 'Umpire of Year' award for five consecutive years and has also been a part of International Cricket Council (ICC)'s Elite panel of umpires. His decisions on field were spot on. However, he had erred just once in his career and that happened to be against Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar.

incident had happened during a Test match between India and England at Trent Bridge in 2007 where Simon had wrongly given Little Master out off a Paul Collingwood delivery just nine runs short of what would have been an outstanding century. Sachin had all reason to be disgruntled as hawkeye showed that ball was missing off-stump. Taufel n recalled his and Tendulkar's conversation next morning.

'You are a good umpire': Simon Taufel

“ following morning I happened to pass by Sachin on my rmal morning walk out to middle and I come across Sachin and I said, ‘look, yesterday I got it wrong, you kw? I’ve looked at it, I got it wrong.’ He said, ‘look, Simon, I kw.’ He said, ‘you’re a good umpire, you don’t often get many wrong, it’s okay, don’t worry about it,’ said Taufel while talking to rewned sports anchor/broadcaster Gaurav Kapur on 22 Yarns.

“And out of that sort of exchange, which wasn’t an apology for sake of making him feel better or me feel better, it was just an ackwledgment that we were both out re doing our best. This is sport, and I wanted to ackwledge that I knew fact that he was unhappy, and I was doing my best to make sure that that didn’t happen again. That was really underlying mess,” legendary umpire added.

India Vs England 2007 Test series

India went on to win that second Test match at Trent Bridge by seven wickets after opening Test at Lord's had ended in a draw. final Test also ended in a stalemate as India won three-match series 1-0. This was a much-needed win for Rahul Dravid & Co. after y were ousted from 2007 World Cup in group st itself a few months back in Caribbean. Meanwhile, Dravid also relinquished his captaincy after this tour as well.

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