masterblaster
International Captain
A really, really bad decision by Bowden. A real stinker.
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**Official** Australia in India Thread
- Thread starter Craig
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From CricInfo:
2.2 McGrath to Sehwag, OUT: duck! good length delivery, pitched outside the off stump and angling in, Sehwag tries to defend and ends up with a BIG inside edge on to his pad, loud appeal and the finger goes up, Bowden's bad run continues!
Atherton says 'Enormous' inside edge.
2.2 McGrath to Sehwag, OUT: duck! good length delivery, pitched outside the off stump and angling in, Sehwag tries to defend and ends up with a BIG inside edge on to his pad, loud appeal and the finger goes up, Bowden's bad run continues!
Atherton says 'Enormous' inside edge.
masterblaster
International Captain
1/1 India, Dravid and Chopra on a pair, and Sehwag wasn't out.
Life isn't fair for the Indians.
Life isn't fair for the Indians.
Mr Casson
Cricketer Of The Year
Well now Sehwag's gone, LBW despite an inside edge.
BEFORE THE UMPIRE BASHING GOES ANY FURTHER:
It's really starting to get annoying. The crowd noise must be unbelievable (I've not experienced it first-hand, but everyone who has says it is), so to expect people to hear edges all the time in India is asking a lot. It's been a consistent feature of this match that edges aren't being picked up properly by the umpires, so at least it's evened itself out somewhat.
When I saw it on TV, despite the aid of mics at the stumps and what not, I didn't hear anything and my first thought was "THAT'S CLOSE!", although I had a suspicion that he may have edged it.
Anyway, give the umpires a break (especially Bowden); he's never umpired a test in India before.
The fact of the matter is that these are two extremely experienced umpires who are doing the best they can in phenomenally adverse conditions. Bring in less experienced umpires at your peril; they might just f*ck it up even more.
BEFORE THE UMPIRE BASHING GOES ANY FURTHER:
It's really starting to get annoying. The crowd noise must be unbelievable (I've not experienced it first-hand, but everyone who has says it is), so to expect people to hear edges all the time in India is asking a lot. It's been a consistent feature of this match that edges aren't being picked up properly by the umpires, so at least it's evened itself out somewhat.
When I saw it on TV, despite the aid of mics at the stumps and what not, I didn't hear anything and my first thought was "THAT'S CLOSE!", although I had a suspicion that he may have edged it.
Anyway, give the umpires a break (especially Bowden); he's never umpired a test in India before.
The fact of the matter is that these are two extremely experienced umpires who are doing the best they can in phenomenally adverse conditions. Bring in less experienced umpires at your peril; they might just f*ck it up even more.
Irregardless of whether its his first test in India or not that decision was one of the worst I've seen ever watching cricket. I don't think hes doing it deliberatly but like players, umpires do have form slumps, I remember Russell Tiffen giving many shocking decisions in last Ashes test in Sydney in the 2002/03 Ashes series, and thinking that he was the worst umpire in the world. Then a few months later I saw him umpiring a match and he was brilliant and not making mistakes.
Yes Bowden has made some big, serious mistakes in this series, and yes they have seemed to favour Australia. However, I think its very unfair and reflects poorly on those doing it who accuse him of deliberatly ruling against the Indian players.
And expect Sewag to be fined for his disent as he walked off.
Yes Bowden has made some big, serious mistakes in this series, and yes they have seemed to favour Australia. However, I think its very unfair and reflects poorly on those doing it who accuse him of deliberatly ruling against the Indian players.
And expect Sewag to be fined for his disent as he walked off.
tooextracool
International Coach
strange move this, personally i would have had laxman batting at 3 or 4,definetly ahead of ganguly.
This is the problem. You can fine players for showing any dissent (even shaking their heads) at an obviously unforgivable error by an umpire BUT there is no penalty for screwed up umpiring or continued errors. And, listening to some on the Board, that's OK but technology should never be used. Does this make any sense at all ?Mr Casson said:
