Saturday, 5 January 2008

Who won the match

I have never watched a match before that had such a number of fallacious decisions that turned the match in favour of one team. Steve Bucknor and Benson made really atrocious & deplorable decisions. Australia were struggling at 140/6 and Symonds was caught behind off Sharma but Buknor gave not out. Symonds went on to make 150+. Similarly in the second innings Hussey was given not out at 45 when he was clearly out and he went on to make 145. So where the cases of Ponting, Clarke and a stumping of Symonds. When it was turn for Indians to bat the umpires thought the other way around. Two crucial decisions which were clearly not out was given as out. It was Dravid and Ganguly who were sent back when they deserved to be on the pitch.

This victory is not worth for Australia to boast as a true cricketing victory. I truly believe Indians have arrived in Australia at a most inopportune time (referring to the racism trouble in the previous series). The true winners of this match were neither Australia nor India, it was the UMPIRES (May be we should call them Vampires, who are thirsty for an Indian defeat)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

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