~Kim Cattrall
"(Ponting clearly had to have been aware that he had grounded the catch - and yet, even with the benefit of hindsight, he not only claims otherwise, but suggests that his integrity cannot be questioned)"Much has been said after after India's disappointing loss to Australia. So to save everyone more analysis, I'll leave the judgment to the reader. Apparently, the Indian team did not know until after the ban was handed out as to what exactly Andrew Symonds had heard. Last heard, Symonds had misinterpreted an oft used greeting - "Teri Maa Ki..." as being a racist remark.
In that case, go sue 1.2 billion people who are shouting at the Punter and his chimps in unison - TERI MAA KI...
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I'll not say that I'm annoyed but I'm really surprised by the whole proceedings. This is not "CRICKET". Players play for nation, for win but what about the umpires!! Are they not paid enough by the ICC or do they have any grudges against any particular team? If players can be punished why not the umpires? After all these, I think that Australia should not talk anything about cricket. Similar thing happened to Sri Lanka few years ago. But they were at the loosing side very much like India this time. With all the evidence clear and against Australian team, what is the ICC doing?
I really don't know where cricket is heading to, but kudos to Ujjwal(Leui) for the nice collection of videos to share his views.
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hmm .. I have been coerced into writing this comment after regular mental torture from Mr. Ujjwal Moitra. I am not sure whether what he has written is correct or not. And nor do I endorse any views of the author :-D
Now let's talk seriously -
1. The umpiring was poor but I'm sure that the none of them was actually trying to cheat. I blame the ICC for this since they have such a small panel & those guys are standing for 4-5 days out there. It must be quite taxing for the umpires. The ICC needs to bring in more umpires into the panel w/o lowering the standards.
2. The problem here is that it seems OK to abuse somebody's mother but not somebody's race. I for one would take more offense to somebody passing a remark about my mother rather than my race. But this is where cultural differences come into play. The so-called sledging aka mental disintegration is a rather unfortunate phenomenon in this game. I don't understand why umpires & referees have allowed this to go on for so long. In fact it was Ponting who complained about the remark which obviously means that match officials turn a deaf ear to the abuse being hurled by one player on another. It is time for the custodians of the game to get rid of their chalta-hai attitude.
Been through the name "jhol" myself... and surprisingly have a post with the exact same title... ;-)
lol...Rupsha, I think you wanted to comment on the article above this - what's in a name..:-)
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