Why do you need to show reaction for every Tom, Dick and Harry who says something? Why do you take that as a yardstick and say India must pull back off the tour.
To me, pulling back is out of question. If India has pride, it should play the 2 tests, win them handsomely and show Aussies what winning really means.
It is good that they appealed against Bajji's ban, but we should stop our obsession about Bajji now. This is not the time to ignite Indian cricket fan's emotions by dropping the tour because of Bajji.
As the famous old saying, 2 wrongs can't make a right. If India turns back, it would be like India's second innings in Sydney, that is how Yuvraj gifted his wicket after the Dravid farce.
RE:Grow up Prem
by speculator on Jan 08, 2008 12:05 PM Permalink
When all the decisions go against u how u win a game.Talk is easy, doing is tougher.Call off the tour.Here and now.
RE:Grow up Prem
by Prabhakaran V on Jan 08, 2008 12:24 PM Permalink
Excellent, i agree with what you are saying. Everyone seems agitating the situation and making worse some more.
The media making it as an egoistic issue rather than injustice to our folks. Things happened already, let us move forward from here by leaving board to talk to ICC and parallally let our players play their fullest and teach a good and tough lesson to Aussies and then we will speak.
Ricky Ponting and the Australian team can be compared to George Bush and the American government. Because they are the dominant force within the world of cricket they think that they can get away with anything. Like the Americans they consider themselves above everyone else, which is shown in their blatant disregard for others and thier obvious double standards. It also does not help the Australians cause that like the Americans they are led by a self centred and sometimes childlike leader.
Its time to show ICC their place and what they are worth. If BCCI pulls out of ICC, so will most of the sponsors in international cricket, majority of which are Indian companies. If BCCI decides to set up another cricket council, the other Asian country cricket boards will surely back BCCI considering that all the Asian countries have sometimes or the other, faced abuse at the hands of the white playing countries.
This is the time that BCCI has to stand up and protect the nation's honour. This should be the only consideration when handling this issue. Commercial considerations? Well I think BCCI has enough money to bear the commercial impact of any extreme action.
India were not the better team in the test but could still have saved the match on Day 5. Dhoni, RP used their pads unncessarily. Yuvi was out of his depth. Others fought gamely and a couple of the top batsmen were hard done by.
The controversy is unnecessary regarding umpiring. It was poor, but not malicious. We may feel sorry about the quality of umpiring but we should not hate the umpires and try to crush them under our feet. A draw would have been a fair result but I also feel that with the draw, Indian team would still have raised a ruckus over the umpiring and tried to gloss over their own batting deficiencies.
The rascism issue has gotten out of hand with tour cancellation a reality but here, i cannot blame India for protesting the fine on Bhaji w/o necessary and sufficient evidence.
RE:Be careful!!!
by neil varghese on Jan 08, 2008 12:03 PM Permalink
Yes we agree Australia plays (not played in Sydney) better cricket than India these days. In Sydney Pointing & company was irritated to accept the fact that they were missing out the record set by Steve Waugh's team. The result is history............
RE:Be careful!!!
by RAJA DURAI on Jan 08, 2008 11:44 AM Permalink
give 7 outs when none was out and do not give outs for those out what do you expect then
RE:RE:Be careful!!!
by Yogesh Upadhyaya on Jan 08, 2008 12:01 PM Permalink
Understand something - India as team has less quality batsmen then Australia 4. In most matches not more than 2 will get goign in an innigs. And if both are wrongly given out then the innings performance will suffer. It is not about ANY tow batsmen given out but THE two batsmen given out. Umpiring "errors" matter. Nobody is making the case that India is as a good a team as Australian in general. But a better team does not always win. Because on a day, the other team may play better.
