I'm still amazed at views that: (a) the umpiring was pro-Australia (b) there is an anti-Indian/anti-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 morning 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 suggested 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 clean up the tail from 6-130 in the first innings, it is the umpires.
Cliche as it may be, build a bridge (and get over it)!
RE:Umpiring - biased or bad?
by Adnan on Jan 08, 2008 06:57 PM Permalink
Mr. Australian Lawyer.. go and fight the case for Bucknor and Benson. They deserve good lawyers like you.
