Cricinfo has been monitoring umpires' performances in detail for several months and we will soon be unveiling our own ratings system.
This strikes me as being a very interesting development. Certainly it could help motivate umpires, but it could also make their job even more stressful and less attractive.
One thing I would like to see is a better system for appointing umpires to the elite panel. At the moment it seems to be that once you are there, you are there until you retire - at which point a new umpire gets plucked from complete obscurity. I am not entirely sure how to make a system work, but maybe a ranking system that extends beyond the elite panel to include umpires involved in ODI and domestic cricket could help.
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