The test match should be either scrapped or played again, if Aussies have the guts. Unfortunately the focus is on Bajji alone, instead of BCCI insisting on Scrapping the Test for Poor Umpiring. How can we continue to accept such a situation. BCCI pls, act Now, look at the situatio in perspective.
I wonder if the Indian team and fans are focussing on the real issue here? Even if the balance of decisions had gone India's way the still would probably just have drawn. Get a better cricket team, spend more time focussing on post-match performance enhancing rather than post-match complaining, and you might actually WIN games rather than complaining and making excuses about every lost game.
Oh, it might be handy not to racially villify members of the opposite team. I hear it's a bit against the rules, and doesn't seem to be helping you win any games.
RE:Congrats BCCI
by rajkiran narkhede on Jan 07, 2008 06:59 PM
Sorry for the wrong news...I got it on one site...but it is neither supported by any channel nor site....India should call off players from Aust.
RE:Congrats BCCI
by Priyabrat Mishra on Jan 07, 2008 05:33 PM
yes, ponting, mr. integrity, be ready for bhajji to attack you and symonds more ferociously than ever, this time with ball and bat also! and think before saying anything - "There's one incident that's come out of the first two Tests, and it didn't involve an Australian," Ponting said - well, all 11 aussies were involved in the complaining, and only 1 indian in facing the charge!
It's a most shameful victory...Indian Team must be called back.Guts & strength needs to be shown only once & then no one can take you for granted!!!! It's more shameful if Andrew Symonds is labelling this as most emphatic win!!!
RE:Shame!!!!
by on Jan 07, 2008 05:39 PM
I wonder if the Indian team and fans are focussing on the real issue here? Even if the balance of decisions had gone India's way the still would probably just have drawn. Get a better cricket team, spend more time focussing on post-match performance enhancing rather than post-match complaining, and you might actually WIN games rather than complaining and making excuses about every lost game.
Oh, it might be handy not to racially villify members of the opposite team. I hear it's a bit against the rules, and doesn't seem to be helping you win any games.
RE:Shame!!!!
by iam here on Jan 07, 2008 06:00 PM
neither are u "on" ... so just keep ur gob shut.... and I know for sure that ur not and Indian... u must be a paki....
RE:Shame!!!!
by on Jan 07, 2008 06:04 PM
again with the racism? he heh :) Can't wait for the aussies to smash India at Perth. If the team doesn't crawl home, tail between it's legs, first!
RE:Shame!!!!
by on Jan 07, 2008 06:41 PM
aa i dont agree with you brother.. i m paki and living melbourne but love any asian team comes to play against Australia. I really believe Ponting needs help big time to see any brain specialist, dont you see guy has got some anger problem too. worst caption ever in Australian history
As an Indian I strongly believe that our team must be called back to India and the series called off. We have the muscle to ensure that the Oz board, its players, ICC & the umpires apologize to us. If we come to a compromise today then we will always be in a compromised situation.
Another thing that needs to be ensured is that no Oz player past or present is given any contract by the BCCI for IPL. Let us as a nation in unity boycott the Oz.
The Oz have a lot more to loose than we do. If all the sub-continent teams are united then we would not have much to worry about.
Historically the Aussies & the English think that Cricket is their inheritence and we are lesser mortals. If we are to look at such incidents (Bhajji ban) in the past involving an Asian team we would always see that the action against us has always been stern, whereas an ICC would let a Warne or Gibbs or Atherton play on even after being involved in henious incidents of betting and fixing.
All of us are united in this hour with the BCCI & the team and BCCI must make sure that the Aussies & ICC are taught a lesson in humility.
RE:Way to go Australia
by on Jan 07, 2008 05:10 PM
What this game has proves is that If the umpire does not give the batsman out three times in an innings even a monkey can score a century.
RE:Way to go Australia
by LALIT JAISHWAL on Jan 07, 2008 05:00 PM
What emphatic win? It was a shameful win because the umpires were hell bent on not giving Symonds out including the third umpire. The match was fixed and all the umpires and the shameless Australian cricketers were involved in this conspiracy. See Gilchrist when he appealed for caught behind of Dravid. He was the person who was sure that Dravid has not nicked the ball but still he appealed shamelessly. DISGRACEFUL AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS WHO HAS BROUGHT THIS GAME TO DISREPUTE!
RE:RE:Way to go Australia
by Andrew Symonds on Jan 07, 2008 06:12 PM
If you think that Indians appeal only when they are sure if someone's out then my dear friend, Indians have got hundreds of decisions against them.
What has Adam Gilchrist's appeal got to do with cheating or disgrace? Appealing is a fielder's birthright.
It's a completely different story altogether as to what decision umpire gives.
Australia is a land of many cultures, but one thing holds true for all Australians, we can't stand whingers.
This whole thing can be dealt with through the captains and team management. If you don't want to sort it out and play some decent cricket, bugger off.
No one wants to watch a team of milk fed cry babies play our first XI. Nothing says up yours like a test century. Your team has the talent, do your talking on the field. If you can't or won't, go home.
Australia is the best team in the world and India taking their bat and ball and going home is not going to change that.
Of all the methods open to India to resolve this situation, talk of suspension and walking away are the least constructive, and most inflamitory. Stop talking, make a decision and act on it.
RE:India: Get on with it, or get out
by Pawan Hansoti on Jan 07, 2008 05:22 PM
The only way to resolve this problem is retain the same set of umpires, just give them more money than what the Australians gave them for the Sydney test. Out bid the opposition.
RE:India: Get on with it, or get out
by on Jan 07, 2008 04:59 PM
I agree that India should stop talking and just call off the tour and return back.
Nobody is disputing the fact that Australia are a great and tough team. But it is also wideley known and accepted that Australia are not the best example when it comes to upholding the spirit of the game given your long history of underarm bowling, introducing sledging into what was supposed to be a gentleman's game.
India should sever all cricketing ties with Australia and nobody from Australian cricket should ever be involved in anything to do with the Indian cricket (be it bilateral serieses, coaching, ICL/IPL etc.).
This is not because we are afraid of playing or loosing to them, but in order to preserve the sanity of the game and not to influence the younger players of what australians perceive as tough but in reality a complete mockery of the spirit of true cricket.
RE:India: Get on with it, or get out
by SR on Jan 07, 2008 05:42 PM
Who went to the match referee with the complaint? India or Australia? Australia has always maintained that sledging is a part of the game. So what happened now? If someone calls me a monkey, I would find it simply childish and move on. It is not by any means racist, is it?
As for your reference to the Indian team as cry babies, let me remind you, India dominated the match for most of the time, in spite of all the umpiring bloopers. Ricky Ponting given not out when on 17, Symonds given not out thrice. All this in the first innings itself. Mate, we bowled out 14 of your wickets in the first innings. Where else have you seen an umpire belonging to the ICC's 'elite' panel referring to the fielding team's captain for a decision? And you expect us not to protest all this? It is a shame that the so-called-professional Aussie cricket team had to stoop to such a low level to ensure that Harbhajan Singh does not play anymore in this series. Why, after all Ponting is Harbhajan's bunny.
Yes mate, you were right when you said, "Talk is cheap". We are acting now.
