I agree entirely with sunny saab.It has and will encourage teams specially like australia which has a reputation of unsetteling the key dangerous players of opposing teams using verbal barrage,what they wrongly term mental degradation. Opposition players should be mentally degraded with superior performances and team efforts instead of using cheap tactics like in this instance what watson did.
Hai Indian cricketers..please dont have even have handshek against the aussies while playing..they may say lodge a compalint that the opposition player hugged his hand very tightly ..that it may take toll on his next day batting...
when rains in the cloud nobody talks about that but when it comes on the ground it become productive... gambhir is productive for indian team so it has face problems by others... i agree with sunil gavaskar, reagding that context.
But why this refree or any other player is not commenting on the act of Watson who showed his fist to Gambhir while he was running... To provoke someone is equally a crime, which shall be strongly dealt with. Where is our spineless & toungeless Captain....why didn't he came in defence of Gambhir, while Ricky Ponting, Clarke everbody came in defence of Watson....
Yes Sunny has got the point. Aussies, being bad losers that they are, will now identify matchwinners in each team, sledge and provoke the key players to commit something as stupid as what Gambhir did and the result is that they can always remain No.1. They are bunch of crybabes. They cannot accept that they have been playing poor cricket. Without Warne and McGrath, the only recourse they have is winning by ways other than cricket.
Nothing is going to happen by accusing match referees that they are biased. We (Asian) cricketers should read ICC rule book thoroughly and find all the loop holes and try to use them. Just like how Aussies, English & Proteas do and just like how our Indian lawyers find ways to bail out their clients using the loop holes of IPC.
Re: Change the Rules
by Ramachandran Kannan on Nov 01, 2008 12:04 PM
The question here is about the rules being interpreted differently. When Gambhir was runing for the first run, Watson thrust his hand and then withdrew as Gambhir moved to evade. The different magnitude of punishment for similar offence is the issue. The problem is that BCCI never fights this issue till it becomes completely unacceptable. At Mohali, Ponting was seen abusing Sehwag but fine aws imposed on Zaheer for the same misconduct. If BCCI had raised this issue, there would have been action. The problem is BCCCI is least bothered about Indian cricketeers. The other big issue is with ICC's continuous ant India bias, a lot more such unfair decisions are in the offing.
Re: Change the Rules
by Kanwar S Arora on Nov 01, 2008 01:32 PM
I just saw he video again, u hav a very valid point ...watson showed him his fist and withdrew at the end moment ....BCCI is responsible for cricket but they only want money thats it ...shame on them
We all have seen how Aussies play their game. They play their game hard with their solid performances in cricket and more solid performances with their tactics of smart sledging. For incidents that happen on the field, it has been very common to see Ponting going to an umpire and talking with him and making the complaint official right from the moment it happens on the field. Steve waugh and Mark Taylor also used to do that. Once the day gets over, he will lodge an official complaint. What happens here is Indian players give them angry reactions to their sledging tactics and get trapped into ICC code of conduct breaches. At the end, Indians get maximum punishment and Aussies escape unharmed or with a minor punishment. The result of this maneuver is when you see the list of the players fined, you will see Indians topping the list and Aussie media or English media will always point that out on every single occasion involving Indian players. Regardless of who was right or wrong when incident happened, we are always shown as bad boys of cricket because on paper, we are fined maximum number of times. Indians players should learn these tactics. They should either not respond at all and just ignore them or if something is told to them or something happens like what Katich did to Gambhir, then just go to the umpire and lodge an official complaint rather than responding in other manners. We should respond to Aussies as smartly as they provoke us. This should be a learning lesson.
