The umpires are not paid to do silly mistakes and the batsman should not be fined unless he( the Baysman ) is wrong whole world is taught to fight against injustice so how can a self respected person whose whole life is dependent on this particular carrier can just take the decesion .
border line dcesions can be considered but just imagine the decesion of Shewag which opened the flood gates for indian defeat.
No person is great. If the same person who has done the mistake has reported then it is a second sin he is doing with what ethics does he have the right to sit in decesion making board,
My message is that why only indians are being targeted with disciplinary actions whereas other teams escape with any punishment.During 2001 test series between no action was taken against the players who showed dissent.Why only asians why not other countries
the way sehwag is crying to make skies fall on the earth on the decision of lbw given by bowden indicates that if he were not given out, he would alone have scored 5oo odd runs to bring victory to india.will sehwag and his chief patron saurav ganguly site an example of an outstanding performance during last 3-4 months? is it not high time to kick out sehwag,ganguly,chopra,yuvraj singh and laxman from team india to pave way for the really promising boys who will play for the country and not for money.
Yeh sap bagwas yar!!! When Yuvraj Singh was selected ahead of M. Khaif & S.Sriram, we a group of fans predicted India is going to lose the first match. The selectors and captain Ganguly are gone on mad. Nowhere in the cricketing world it could happen exept in India that player like Yuvraj, who is totally out of form and that too a debut, be selected ahead of a number of better players currently available. Sadagopan Ramesh & Shiv Sundar Das are better players than the current openers. Where are they now? We are losing and will continue to lose till we get right combination of players available for the team. Can the corrupt selectors and captain find such a combination? I wonder if they find such one.
sir, I entirely agree with your opinion that the batting team be allowed a couple of appeals per match. Lets not forget that cricket is played by and for the humans. Restricted emotions must be allowed to make it a non-robotic game. Icc, consisting of humans, wants money to be main part than the game itself. swaroop
Umpire Bowden is surely the villain of the episode. In fact he and the "Ugly Aussies" must be viewed more severely by all Indians and by the ICC. I siggest some statistician run thru all umpiring gaffes of the past test and one day matches between India and other countries and give out details of 'favourable' and 'against' decisions. I bet most bad decisions have gone against India in the ratio of 8:2. This will clearly prove that most umpires are inherently biased against India even before the commencement of the match. This is not say that Indian team would have won matches if the umpires had been unbiased. They say cricket is a spectator sport. Well then as spectators we expect fairplay from the umpires, that is all. Secondly, as spectators we would like the 'Ugly Ausiies' to shut up and play and not bad-mouth all the time. It is time Indians learnt not to go overboard while receiving the opponent teams into the country. Don't make our traditional Indian welcome cheap by placing a Mysore turban and doing Aarti to the likes of Gilchrist, etc. That should be reserved for extraordinary people of great wisdom and character and not every scum and mercenary from abroad.
