What happened in Sydney is not just umpiring blunder. But the way all the umpires including third umpire ruling close decisions & also not close decisions against India shows this is a clear case of match fixing. Either the board or the capitan must have taken the umpires into confidence. But the irony is even after fixing they took 7 balls less than 5 days in defeating the Indians.It just shows how desperate they were for recording 16 wins that they did'nt even show courtesy of wishing the loosing team. May be they know they did'nt deserve the win.The confidence with which they were claiming they are going to teach India a lesson when they come home complements to where the confidence was comming from. The media espesially Indian must highlight this as match fixing & not umpiring mishaps. Not just the integrity of Aussie players to be put under scanner but also of Australian board's who have done all these under single minded intention of proving their champion status. Media & Indian fans must take up the issue. No point in being prudentAlso we are all just beating around the bush and these crooks like McGrath pointing are taking advantage of this.Atleast we must dare to level some serious charge that they consider heavily so that they arepushed to defensive. Just one more funny thing is on last day Bucknor who had refused earlier for Indians call to refer to third umpire voulantarily refered to TV umpire when Bhajji was attempted to run out.
RE:Psuedo champions
by Indian on Jan 11, 2008 12:46 PM Permalink
Rationalism:
The irony is on you, me and the Indians that we played so well till those last 2 overs, and yet lost the match..
Surely you should applaud the Aussie performance during those 5 balls at least.
With or without umpiring help, which Indian team do you think could have achieved that feat? We would have given up right after lunch time..saying.. it's too difficult to get 10 wickets in such a short period..
That's the difference in attitude, fight till the end spirit.. Which is what we Indians must learn, the determination of the Aussies..
RE:Psuedo champions
by Vijay on Jan 11, 2008 12:59 PM Permalink
dude, even among the last 3 wickets one was quite dubious though not comparable to utterly bad decisions of Ganguly and Dravid. And btw why do you think Australian greats like Bill Lawry and Neil Harvey are critical of Ponting and also famous Australians from others sports. The only one openly supporting Ponting in Glenn Mcgrath and everybody knows the Mcgrath Sarwan incident. Nobody is concerned whether we win or lose but the slur on Harbhajan is unfair, he was provoked by Symonds into saying something, quite what I dont know
RE:Psuedo champions
by Rationalist on Jan 11, 2008 01:00 PM Permalink
What last 2 overs are you talking about? They are tailenders, bowlers.Do%u2019nt ecpect any thing from them. What ever they contribute is only bonus.Just because Anil Kumble managed to hang on you expect others also. Every body cannot be Anil Kumble. . Though so called mighy Aussies did not need much assistance from Bucknor to finish the tail one would wonder if the anti India umpire would have given out LBWs in the manner which he gave to Dhoni & RP Singh had it been for Aussie's that being purely his discretion.
RE:Psuedo champions
by Deepu on Jan 11, 2008 07:15 PM Permalink
If Harbajan's ban is lifted, I want Indian to go after Ponting/Hayden/Gilly/Clark/Symond who ever was involve in wrongly accusing Harbajan. and Ban them for life so no aussie will ever dare to use this wrong track. Teach these racist B..... a lesson.
RE:Psuedo champions
by AJAY NAIR on Jan 13, 2008 03:05 PM Permalink
mr pawar must be sacked and mr modi must be brought in.. let him do the talking... everything will be settlled...
