Looking at the summary of the first and second test matches, I conclude that Australia played (or rather conspired and cheated) with not eleven but thirteen players if you include the two on-field so-called umpires. It has become clear that Australians are bad losers, cheats and play dirty mind games. The numerous bad decisions by umpires, the Bhajji-Symmonds episode, and instances of cheating by Ponting (claiming a grounded catch, not walking off the field even after nudging a nick to the wicket-keeper etc.) proves that the Australian cricket team is a cheat and undoubtedly fixed the matches with the umpires. They must have bribed the umpires to get umpiring decisions in their favour.
I have never ever seen such bad umpiring in last 30 years. I like to point out that Steve Bucknor is anti-India. He has been for the past few years consistently giving bad decisions against India in ODIs and test matches just like his colleague David Shepard does for Sri Lanka.
In my opinion this test match be nullified and either be abandoned or replayed. Both of the umpires be stripped of their designation and banned for life. We can certainly do without them.
The conduct of Ricky Pointing (appealing despite knowing that he is wrong in doing so, showing Ganguly the finger suggesting that he is out (he had no right to do so)) and of Symmonds (falsely accusing Bhajji of racial remarks) should be thoroughly investigated and be banned for atleast 20 ODIs and 10 test matches.
RE:australia played with 13 players!!!
by Deepak Bhakoo on Jan 06, 2008 03:13 PM Permalink
Well said ! Don't forget to count the blind third umpire in the Aussie team to make it 14 vs India's 11.
Every Indian knows what Bucknor is like. They now know what Benson is like. Instead of going to the third umpire (I wonder if he would have given Ganguly not out for Clarke's grassed catch or not!), he asked Clarke/Ponting for their verdict. Chor-chor mausere bhai! With the Border-Gavaskar Trophy & the 16-match streak in sight, why in the world would they admit the catch was grassed when the "renowned walker" Gilchrist threw sportsmanship spirit to the wind & like a typical unsportsmanlike Aussie cheat, claimed Rahul Dravid's catch, even when his bat was nowhere close to the ball ?
Great fight shown by Kumble & Dhoni should be commended to the max. Yuvraj should make way for Dinesh Karthik or Irfan Pathan (next Test being in Perth, Pathan could be handy) & spend some time with Deepika Padukone. Wasim Jaffer should be "rested" to bring in Virender Sehwag. The worst-case scenario will be that Sehwag would fail with his batting, but it won't be any worse than Jaffer's (non)performance & Sehwag could be used as an off-spinner if the Aussie cheats manage to get Bhajji banned. In that case, VRV Singh could be brought in for Bhajji.
