We have carried the sprit of Gandhism too far..and which has costed us our pride..2-0 down which could easible been a 1-1 tie. Greg Chappel removed Ganguli as he defied the convention..and now we are taking it lying done..why did the Indian team not boycott when such bad decision was given against India..We are yet to come out of White ruling us ..Wake up India Wake Up !!
It is horrendous umpiring in the 2nd Test at Adelaide. Steve Bucknor is quite unfit to be an International umpre both physically and mentally. He should have been sacked by ICC atleast 1 year back. The quality of umpiring is either neutral or acceptable.
The two umpires Steve Bucknor of West Indies and Mark Benson of England have given a number of atrocious decisions, all most all have gone against the Indians. It is quite evident on television that the umpiring has been wretched.
Australia benefited from Benson and Bucknor's generosity throughout the match. On the first day, India had the hosts on the mat at 134 for six but Andrew Symonds was given not one but two reprieves once by Bucknor and another by third umpire Bruce Oxenford before he went on to score an unbeaten 162 to take Australia out of trouble. Third umpire%u2019s role is just biased. Benson's generosity continued after he ruled in Mike Hussey's favour even after the batsman had edged RP Singh to wicket keeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the second innings. Hussey, who was then on 45, made the most of the opportunity and went on to make an unbeaten 145 to swell Australia's lead. In India's second innings, the blunders continued to flow. Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly, who looked quite comfortable in the middle as India tried to save the match, once again got the rough end of the stick. While Dravid was given caught behind even though he didn't get an edge, Ganguly was given out to a slip catch by Michael
India should pull out Off Tour and Should not give the rubber stamp signed. Unless Re Match conducted or Open Apology given umpire and Austrilian captian. Mainly the Out ofGangully whole austrilain team lied that it is Out. It is great Shame for the sports man ship. Team should Bared from international cricket
I ADORE PONTING FOR HIS BATSMAN SKILL BUT HE HAS LOWERED HIMSELF IN ALL CRICKET FANS BY SORT OF CHEATING.GOOD BATSMAN MUST BE GOOD SPORTMAN.HE WILL BE BETTER REMEMBERED AS CHEATER
THEY NEVER SAID THEY ARE NEUTRAL.IT IS ONLY WE ARE SAYING.FOLLOW THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE GREAT INZAMAM. AUSTRALIA IS GREAT THEY HAVE FOUND MANY WAYS TO WIN THE MATCH/SERIES. THEY COULD NOT DIGEST THEIR DOWNFALL.THEY COULD NOT ACCEPT THEIR DEFEAT.TEST PLAYING TEAMS WHO ARE ON THE WAY TO AUSTRALIA SHOULD THINK TWICE.
I think Andrew Symonds really destroyed the camaraderie between the two great crecket playing nations. Australian board should understand that why Indian board didn't complain against any other Australian player in the past. Indians always have good relations in the past like Bradman and Lala Amarnath, Border and Gavaskar, Deen Jones,Devid Boon,Craig Macdermott and Ravi Shastri,Manjrekar...Recently Sachin Tendulkar Shane Warne,Heyden,Rahul Dravid,Steve Wauge,Adam Gilcrist! I mean you could name many cricketers. Despite being tough to each other on the field they respect each other very much on the field and off the field as well. Aussies and Indian cricketers friendly relations are very old and Indians respect Australians for this quality of playing tough cricket but I don't know why from the day this 'outsider' Symonds came into the aussies side every cricketing country has some problem with his attitude. I think he don't know the difference between playing "tough" and playing "ugly and disrespectfully and winning at any cost attitude". I think there is some problem with him and aussies board should look after it and should have a talk with him about it. Enough is enough now! This guy symonds is really destroying the cricket relations between the two countries. I think the umpires really killed the spirit of the game I must say. I have full sympathy and congratulate Indians on being calm on the whole issue.
RE:Whats wrong with the ''Outsider'' !!
by Sanjay Aggarwal on Jan 06, 2008 05:32 PM Permalink
beware mr. chapell, you might be accused of being racist by calling him outsider. ha ha ha.....
