Match fixing?
Having come back to India for vacation, I've been watching the India-Australia match on TV every morning for the past 4 days.
And what I've seen is probably the most disgusting spectacle I have ever seen in any sport, ever!
Those of you who have only read reports will never be able to appreciate how one team was shamelessly robbed of the match they should have not only drawn but rather won easily. It was only because I saw it myself that I can actually believe how bad it really was.
Even the third umpire, who has to judge based on slow-motion TV replays gave wrong decisions. It was simply incredible!
Australia were given about 300 extra runs in both innings due to the umpires completely refusing to ever give anything out! Nicks obvious to the naked eye, lbws that had the batman a foot in front of middle stump, I mean the most incredibly glaring things were simply refused.
And even all this, while preventing an Aussie defeat, would not be enough to make them win the game. They needed the umpires help to then get India out. Dravid was given out to a ball that miles away from anything. The shock on his face told the story. He deserved a medal for not punching the damn umpire. I mean by this time it was obvious that the umpires were TRYING to screw India. And then the dismissal of Ganguly where the umpire actually asks the Australians if they had taken a catch! Of course they said yes. And the same Ponting who said yes was the guy who appealed for a catch he had grounded just minutes before! I mean WTF??? (Btw Ponting and Gilchrist and their "cricketing spirit" was completely exposed today. Apparently Gilchrist is honest when it suits him and then he uses his honest image at the right time to blatantly cheat. Assholes.)
India has complained against the umpires terming them "incompetent". I think no one can be that incompetent. The match was probably fixed. Sounds far-fetced if you didn't actually see the decisions. But I saw it. And I've watched cricket for 25 years and never seen anything like this. They should definitely have a match-fixing investigation. I have never seen any sports team being robbed so blatantly. It's just disgusting.
And what I've seen is probably the most disgusting spectacle I have ever seen in any sport, ever!
Those of you who have only read reports will never be able to appreciate how one team was shamelessly robbed of the match they should have not only drawn but rather won easily. It was only because I saw it myself that I can actually believe how bad it really was.
Even the third umpire, who has to judge based on slow-motion TV replays gave wrong decisions. It was simply incredible!
Australia were given about 300 extra runs in both innings due to the umpires completely refusing to ever give anything out! Nicks obvious to the naked eye, lbws that had the batman a foot in front of middle stump, I mean the most incredibly glaring things were simply refused.
And even all this, while preventing an Aussie defeat, would not be enough to make them win the game. They needed the umpires help to then get India out. Dravid was given out to a ball that miles away from anything. The shock on his face told the story. He deserved a medal for not punching the damn umpire. I mean by this time it was obvious that the umpires were TRYING to screw India. And then the dismissal of Ganguly where the umpire actually asks the Australians if they had taken a catch! Of course they said yes. And the same Ponting who said yes was the guy who appealed for a catch he had grounded just minutes before! I mean WTF??? (Btw Ponting and Gilchrist and their "cricketing spirit" was completely exposed today. Apparently Gilchrist is honest when it suits him and then he uses his honest image at the right time to blatantly cheat. Assholes.)
India has complained against the umpires terming them "incompetent". I think no one can be that incompetent. The match was probably fixed. Sounds far-fetced if you didn't actually see the decisions. But I saw it. And I've watched cricket for 25 years and never seen anything like this. They should definitely have a match-fixing investigation. I have never seen any sports team being robbed so blatantly. It's just disgusting.