It's easier if I just repost my comments last night, starting with umpiring.
I'm still amazed at views that: (a) the umpiring was corrupt/biased (b) there is an anti-Indian/subcontinental conspiracy (c) it only seems to happen in favour of Australia (d) India always suffers; and (e) it's time to take a stand.
Is there a sudden preponderance of Indian supporters forgetting to take their medication?
1. Let us go back to Bucknor saving India with umpiring errors at Lords last summer (not to excuse his falling standards, just to dispel the anti-Indian conspiracy)
2. Let us go back to the good old days of the 70s and 80s where you couldn't get equality in the subcontinent for love or for money (pardon the pun). Only the innocent should throw stones!
3. Consider the following decisions in Sydney (a) Ponting out off inside edge LBW (b) Lee out hit outside the line LBW (c) Laxman plumb LBW to Lee early in 100 innings (d) Tendulkar plumb LBW to Lee early in 150 innings
Now these decisions still pale into a degree of insignificance given the bad decisions copped by the Indians, but since when is this new? All this is definitive proof of is bad umpiring, rather than any bias.
And I'm afraid it is in the Indian psyche to point fingers anywhere but internally when things go wrong - it's not our inability to bat 72 overs on a perfectly good pitch, nor our inability to finish the tail from 6-130, it is the umpires.
