Monday, January 7, 2008

Umpire - The real winner of sydney test

Hi!!!! all of you have seen the headlines about the recently concluded sydney test between india and australia. I have been told that in the game of cricket either a batsman or a bowler can take the game away from the opponent team but i realised that even an umpire can win the match for a team. Team india which played fantastic and most importantly honest cricket. The saddest part is that india alone played honest cricket. The indians were being exposed to a kind of blind umpiring that is even a person of age 20 years with cricketing knowledge and a good eyesight will not give a worst decision like what happened in the sydney test. Secondly the world champions "Aussies" who were the most to talk about sportsmanship spoiled the spirit of the game and their name in cricket. Aussies who were expected to be the people of high calibre behaved as children playing in streets. The umpires also are giving decisions by consulting the players on field example ganguly dismissal in second innings. Just by ponting signalling out the umpire took the decision, then what is the need of third umpire. This is just spoiling the spirit of the game. If this scenario continues then the interest towards the game and the morale of the players will also get affected that too in a country like india were cricket is not just a game but relegion. So i request the umpires not to repeat this, i also sincerely suggest proper training for umpires who are new and old to handle pressures and critical situations in order to keep the game of cricket more interesting. I hope team india recovers from this incident and come again strongly in the third test.

7 comments:

venkat said...

superb...

Raghav G said...

nice post.. keep going..proud to be an indian

Swaminathan said...

thanks annachi for ur comment

Shankar said...

it is a sensible post.... i hope these words will reflect everyone in the field of cricket and this incident will not repeat in the coming years....

Guhan M. said...

i think ponting sent his wife to bucknor and his wife for the night

boobu said...

lets forget all the things and we will try to put a great show in forthcoming series........

R..Bala said...

Nice post....Its history now and both teams should focus on the upcoming tests