OMG! Australia continue their bid for a record-equalling 16th successive Test victory in Sydney. (I saw the first day, it was good)
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You've got to laugh, haven't you?
AHAHAHA! :(
Kumble must feel like a right banana. Or rather, he must be quite pissed off that three of his side perished to Michael Clarke in the last over.
The stuff of nightmares.
Its wasn't their fault.
The batsman didn't do their job.
Well, you can't be overly critical, no
but they shouldn't have lost that.
On this evidence
it really is time to put Steve Bucknor out to grass.
It was incredibly unfair on them
The umpiring etc. But I really thought it had draw written all over it, but no, India's disorganised star line-up are again undone.
Great test though.
bad umpiring in Australia?
Surely not?? Australia have consistantly engineered such situations over the years through excessive appealing, complaining to the umpire etc.
There is nothing worse in the world than watching Australia win a test match, the smug convict bastards. Just remember, your next Queen is Camilla Parker Bowles!
yes
But this time the umpiring howlers weren't affected by anything on Australia's part, it was just shit.
Well
aside from Ponting helpfully telling Benson that Clarke had caught Ganguly...
The Aussies want everyone to trust the fielders when catches are claimed, but then dont walk when they're out (esp Clarke when he ridiculously stood there after edging to first slip!!), they cant have it both ways.
They are a great team, but I wont want England to win playing they way they do.
Umpires are gash
India should have managed to draw the test. The batting (and to an extent, bowling) failed but that has well and truly been superceded in terms of the Test.
I actually hope that this test is remembered for its umpiring and Australia's poor sportsmanship than the cricket, which is quite sad. But for the 16 win streak to be equalled in this manner is not the best representation of how the sport has progressed.
I can only imagine what Ponting's reaction would have been if the atrocious umpiring decisions were on the other foot! What should have been a great day, recognising the fantastic cricketing talent of Australia, is now little more than a bitter taste in the mouth.
Well he got upset
when appeals were turned down.
It's silly, and hypocritical. Australia want the other teams to take the word of their fielders, who are the same people who don't walk when they've got a massive edge behind.
But
no one walks. Why should batsman walk, the umpires are the ones who should make the decision. It isn't am exclusively Australian thing either. In fact, one of the few players who does walk is an Australian, Adam Gilchrist.
Anyway, India didn't deserve to win in my opinion. If they can't bowl Australia out on a 4/5 day pitch at Sydney with two of the best spinners around they have problems. They're fielding was atrocious, as was the running between wickets. Laxman played brilliant strokes, but if he could be bothered to run harder he could have had an extra 20/30 runs at least to his score. The basics of the games are what India lack. And they'll get murdered in Perth in Australia go for 4 quicks.
good game but
shitty decisions that just get worse and worse, and andrew symonds needs to sort his sun cream out, he looks like a complete pratt.
They may have to wait some time to try and get the 17th...
what do you mean?
i'm a bit out of touch with all this malarky at the moment, all i know is, that we are getting the ashes next year or the year after or sometime like next year or something
I think there's a hoo-har over one of the Indian players
He called a black player 'a monkey' but apparently it wasn't racist. :-/
I think that's right.
India have boycotted the rest of the tour in protest
at Harbhajan Singh's three-test ban for alleged racism. Everyone's all in a tizz. Apparently, Harbhajan called Andrew Symonds a 'monkey'. Hmmm.
oh yeah, just read that
it''s not very cricket really is it.
it's quite funny
but australia have become the michael schumacher of world cricket - very successful and deeply unpleasant...so i'm all for indian boycott. in fact, could all nations boycott australia because "it's just not cricket"?
They are unpleasant
but I don't think that the Indians are a particularly pleasant side either. It takes two to tango, and there was needle when they were over here last year, for whatever reason.
is there anyway
that the Aussies can be banned? That'd be much fairer.
Knocking in cricket bats takes too long :(
Plus
Symonds was abused in India by the crowd a few months ago. It sounds like 6 of one and half a dozen of the other to be honest, both sides are far from blameless. This whole boycott thing just comes across as sour grapes from the Indians - would there have been such an outcry over umpiring had they been able to see out an over of gentle Clarke off-spin? I doubt it. That said, Ricky Ponting is one of the most hypocritical and graceless sportsmen of his generation.
That Clarke over was ridiculous
I genuinely believe that I could have seen that over out. And I am really, really bad.
I don't understand
why I hate the Aussies so much but enjoy South Africa, who are so similarly arsehole-like in their approach a lot of the time.
Canada to the USA
New Zealand to the Aussies
The English to the Scottish
any other nice peoples juxtaposed with arseholes elsewhere in the world?
Derbyshirians to Leicestershirians
you've got that
the wrong way round.
I don't mind South Africa
but Andre Nel is a fucking idiot
he is BUT
he's a complete idiot. Not a contriving, two faced, Australian idiot. He is a complete arsehole of a bowler, and he's funny to watch because of it, so I find myself even liking him in an anti-hero kind of way.
Ponting really is an odious
horrible little man.
Perhaps one of the most satisfying aspects of the 2005 Ashes series is that Ponting arrived with the urn and left with a scar...
fair point
it does seem as if over the last couple of years, cricket seems to be changing its attitude a bit. what with inzamam, that dumb jelly bean thing, all the anger and weird weird sentiments after bob woolmer's death, and now this...what's happened?
I blame Mike Gatting
It's all his fault.
i blame Geoff Boycott
why not?
...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V9xnMvgO0A
I'm saving all my green jelly beans
for the start of the season so I can irritate the opposition and tie in with my self-declared Puma Ballistic sponsership.
I never understood the furore about the jelly bean
It was stupid yes.
But in the same test Sree Sanath bowled a beamer and body checked MJV. No one seemed as bothered.
I guess everyone's used to Sreesanth now
whereas the jelly bean thing was more then one guy. It was, however, both funny and taken out of proportion.
Its weird how
most other sides in test cricket actually have a really good relationship with Australia, even South Africa who can be a bit tetchy sometimes, except India. Bangladesh highly praised Australia when they played them. And the spirit between the two sides during the last two Ashes series was fantastic, even when both sides were getting a good kicking.
Vaughan has often said that
the sledging and sportsmanship of Australia pales in comparison to the abuse you get when playing India or Pakistan