Blatant umpiring bias costing India test matches against Australia is nothing new. In fact, it has been the norm over the last two decades. The biggest factor that has kept emboldening the Australian cricket board and the ICC to 'arrange' for Australian victories by having cheats as umpires has been the BCCI's failure to intervene properly on behalf of neutrality. The BCCI's bosses (especially today's politician-robber Pawar) have always been only interested in the commercial aspects of the game and not in the game itself.
It is very intstructive to check the records (in this regard) of the governing bodies of other games like soccer. These bodies enjoy and jealously guard their hold and command over everything associated with their games. Thus, the Football associations of countries like England, Germany and the Latin American biggies decide which rule changes are acceptable and which are not in the game, which referees are worthy of international status, where and when matches should be held, etc. And all these decisions invariably lead to big advantages for the soccer teams of their countries (and to the disadvantage of other strong soccer countries but which do not have the necessary political and economic power). Invariably, it is these European and Latin American countries that rule the international game. A similar situation exists in the game of hockey, in which India and Pakistan were once kings.
