One decision goes against you and thats all it takes for the other team to rack up 470 runs?If that was the case what about so many umpiring cheating done in India and elsewhere?Why didn't they get the other tailenders out,by bowled or caught or even LBW,if they felt they were robbed then why didnt they walk out?why didnt they win in Melbourne or why not in Perth,trying to make the umpires the scapegoat here? No team has the right to blame umpires until they have never been benefited by it at any point. Indian team is just trying to play mind games and hide their incompetence
The way Dravid,Dhoni and Yuvraj have play all tour in AUS they are not going to escape due to Umpiring errors...i am sure none of you noticed this?
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by jaya chandran on Jan 08, 2008 08:46 AM Permalink
Raman sir! I accept your comment. Many errors are done in umpiring due to human error. Now a days these are minimised by use of technology. Many umpires use this skills to get most out of it. This umpires, even with these kind of facilities they have not made used of it. moreover the teams have not played in a sportsman mind. here sportsman have won not the sports. These weeds have to taken out of the sports this is important to make the sports feel proud.
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by Sanjay Sengupta on Jan 08, 2008 12:48 PM Permalink
Dear Raman,
In Australia there had been two issues here and I believe you wouldn't want to confuse between them. First issue is the defeat and the second is the allegation of racism by Harbhajan. I will not comment on the second issue here as it will increase the size of the post.
Coming back to the first issue, I agree with your observation that Indians had not been playing well. But it still does not help us in condoning the problems with the umpiring decisions. I watched the whole match myself. In what will go down as the worst Test in history for umpiring errors, television replays repeatedly confirmed that as many as eight wrong decisions were given by the two on-field umpires. Steve Bucknor and Mark Benson, plus one by the third umpire Bruce Oxenford.
Of this total of nine blunders, one went against Australia (the lbw decision in the first innings against Ricky Ponting). Eight went against India.
Inevitably, in any match anywhere, umpiring mistakes do occur. Given the tremendous difficulty of judging lbws, bat-pads and snicks instantly, it will be a super-human umpire who will make no mistakes. But when the mistakes are as many as in Sydney, and they are so overwhelmingly in favour of one team and against another, you have to seek an explanation beyond the normal one of human error.
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by Prakul Verma on Jan 08, 2008 01:14 PM Permalink
abey duffer....people like you need to be punished pubblically.....
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by dweep sharma on Jan 08, 2008 01:59 PM Permalink
what a retard! Dude.. Symonds was given not out thrice when he was CLEARLY OUT.. Do u know how much a bowler works hard to get a batsman out?? It's easy to sit in ur drawing room and question.. But if u look at it practically. U'l know how we lost it.. Lost it biggg time coz of stupid umpiring decisions.. Need to BAN all these imcompetant Umpires.. Not 1 but 11 Blunders in a match is simply unacceptable..
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by Calspadeaspade on Jan 10, 2008 06:47 PM Permalink
Cricket is a game of chances. The catch of Symonds wa very obvious. From the video clops one could even hear the sound of the bat hitting the ball. This monkey buchnor was just standing there grinning. Then Symond was stumped 2 times very clearly and buchnor did not even ask for 3rd umpire. If Sachin or Laxman could get 3 chances in a crucial match even India will be victors all the time. India had them at 138 for 6 and Symonds got 3 chances.This is not just 1 decision. It is 12 decisions against India in 1 test.Any body with a common sense will realise that. About the tail enders at the end the Indian team already torally demoralized with umpire decisions and you cant blame them.
