Thank you for this action.Here is the letter I sent today to ICC President,Malcolm Speed.I request every Indian cricket lover to sen such mails to ICC to make them render justice to the Indian team.:
Dear Mr.Malcolm Speed, President, ICC.
Dear Mr.Speed, Today at the conclusion of the Sydney Test with Australia, the whole of India is shocked and enraged at the totally incompetent,blind-as-a-bat and deaf display by both the umpires,M/s Steve Bucknor and Mark Benson, which has reduced this test from being a fairly fought match between two teams with a level playing field to a totally farcical result of India losing the match. At crucial stages of the match, both these gentlemen, particularly Steve bucknor, made it a point to offer ridiculous decisions against India, which cost us the match.: 1)Bucknor's decision to give Andrew symonds not out in the first innings, when the television replays clearly showed that he had nicked the ball 2)Bucknor's decision to give Dravid out,caught behind, when the replays showed that he had not touched the ball at all 3)Mark Benson's decision to ask Ponting whether Michael Clark had taken a clean catch off Saurav Ganguly,was the last straw on the camel's back.How can an umpire ask the opposing captain this question? It showed that he was competing with Bucknor for the incompetency award, and was determined to snatch it from Bucknor with this totally horrendous display .And the television replays did show that the catch was not clea