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Chak De India
by andrew fernandez on Jan 06, 2008 01:40 PM

Its all over for India.Right from the word go, they were up against a stiff Australian side but when they took the field, they had other opponents to face as well.On Day 1, Australia were 50 odd for 2 when Ponting was given not out by Mark Benson.Indians overcame that and had the Ausies reeling at 134 for 6. Later, Symonds was adjudged not out by Steve Bucknor, again a clear edge which only Bucknor was unaware of. Later the third umpire joined the party, a stumping appeal was turned down against Symonds with his foot on the line. He went onto score his career best score and with another decision going in favour of him, a stumping appeal not even referred to the third umpire by Bucknor. Then comes the Indian innings, Jaffer was bowled off a no ball but it went unnoticed. In Aussie second innings, Hussey was caught behind but given not out. He was out lbw but given not out.In the final innings. Rahul Dravid was given out caught behind when the ball was nowhere close to the bat,Ganguly was given out despite Clarke having grassed the catch twice and Dhoni and RP Singh were at the wrong end of marginal decisions. It might seem like a case of sour grapes but had so many decisons not gone against them then perhaps India would have ended up with a 200 run first innings lead. Decisions go wrong as to err is human but the consistency, obviousness and timing of the decisions was so much against India, that they cannot stop themselves from feeling unlucky. Australia retain the Border-Gav

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