0 a person who is present at a sports competition in order to make certain that the rules of that particular game are obeyed and to judge if particular actions are acceptable: --
1 to be the umpire of a game: --
2 (in some sports) a person who controls a game and makes sure that the rules are followed --
The enforcement of standards and the discipline of umpires are matters for the cricket authorities.
The acceptance of decisions by referees and umpires has cropped up.
Is it not a fact that the umpire's department acts with great expedition?
The same remark applies to the umpires' courts.
There will not be so many cases going to the umpires' courts when the public assistance committees are to decide cases.
However, most of them involved not the players but umpires overcome by heat, excitement or other ailments while umpiring the match.
The umpires had to adjudge whether his hand had been over the boundary rope or inside the boundary rope.
However, playing for money involves an even sterner test of character in avoiding retaliation and accepting the decisions of umpires and referees without dissent.
