*Official* India in Australia Thread

[Neil Pickup]

Why can't all disputes end in smiles?

India win the toss and are batting.

330/4 at close, I reckon.

Head on plate.

Eddie - 4, 11, 32, 37, 41, 48

 

[V Reddy]

And while smashing australias bowlers. Sehwag.......... gets stumped, dropped, runs out chopra and then finally gets given out

The same can be said about almost every inning of Ponting in this series so far :P . It's time that luck was on India's side after the first two tests

 

[NikhilN]

this match is going more and more indias way... if this keeps up i think steve waugh is going to cry

 

[V Reddy]

this match is going more and more indias way... if this keeps up i think steve waugh is going to cry

Don't get too far ahead of yourself , nikhil. If a wicket goes down early tomorrow then there is a very good chance of India getting out below 400 and that would mean 50-50 chances again. I hope that these two bat well and get India's score to above 450.

 

[krkode]

Neil, that's bloody close! :wow::O

 

[Kenny]

This was different , on this the 1st camera angle was inconclusive , really couldnt judge it on that , but the second angle showed beyond reasonable doubt that he was on the line , you could clearly see a couple of centimeters of white behind his foot , it was out.
Yet due to the fact the 1st one was inconclusive Bob Parry gave it not out , and he added another 158 runs :!(

IMO the 3rd umpire shouldnt be used for catches , just no way of being certain & the benefit of the doubt always goes to the batsman.
But for run outs & stumpings I think it has to be used as 95% of the time in conclusively shows what happened.

That decision was a disgrace........as you say, the stump cam shot showed clearly he was out......Gilchrist knew it, and I think Sehwag did too. On this occasion, this decision had serious consequences for Australia, and Parry should be ashamed fo himself. He was plain wrong.
Aussie third umpires seem to have a problem giving visiting teams players out when they are - the same thing happened to Vaughan last summer off Bichel.
I think Australia should look closely at third umpires who have the courage to give players out on replay......maybe they are trying too hard to be impartial?

BTW, replays showed Tendulkar was out. The ball rolled off the face of his bat.

 

[CDAK]

That decision was a disgrace........as you say, the stump cam shot showed clearly he was out......Gilchrist knew it, and I think Sehwag did too. On this occasion, this decision had serious consequences for Australia, and Parry should be ashamed fo himself. He was plain wrong.

BTW, replays showed Tendulkar was out. The ball rolled off the face of his bat.

Let the aussie umpire's decision help India atleast once,while the so called neutral umpires give all the benifits of doubt to Aus Batsmen and Aus bowlers.

 

[marc71178]

Let the aussie umpire's decision help India atleast once,while the so called neutral umpires give all the benifits of doubt to Aus Batsmen and Aus bowlers.

The umpires are neutral - anybody can make a mistake and they almost always even out over the long term.

 

[luckyeddie]

Let the aussie umpire's decision help India atleast once,while the so called neutral umpires give all the benifits of doubt to Aus Batsmen and Aus bowlers.

That kind of comment is just stupid.
Then I look at who made it.
:rolleyes:

 

[Kenny]

Let the aussie umpire's decision help India atleast once,while the so called neutral umpires give all the benifits of doubt to Aus Batsmen and Aus bowlers.

What???
I think 195 runs is helping India a fair bit, actually. Good luck to him for dropped catches and so on, but when a replay seems to clearly show white line behind his boot in a stumping situation, I think an explanation from the umpire is somewhat warranted as to why he did not give him out.......

 

[krkode]

What???
I think 195 runs is helping India a fair bit, actually. Good luck to him for dropped catches and so on, but when a replay seems to clearly show white line behind his boot in a stumping situation, I think an explanation from the umpire is somewhat warranted as to why he did not give him out.......

He was talking about the somewhat hideous decisions umpires made against India in the first test match.

Explanations will always be asked, sometimes they won't be given. Live with it. Nobody's going to reverse the decision and subtract x number of runs from India now.

This doesn't mean I'm okaying the fact that umpires are "making up" for their bad decisions against India. That's absurd. Umpires will always try to make the best decision they know how, and this was made although offering some benefit of the doubt.

 

[CDAK]

I neither believe nor like prediction, but still I 've to say, evenif Sehwag had been given out, it would never have affected India's scoring(prbably some 30 runs less at the end of the day).It'd have been a different innings from Dravid and sachin(??).
Most of the the comments over here sounds like 'India got only one batsman called Sehwag and by not giving him out, aus lost a chance to contain India within 200'.
Sehwag's innings would be like that only.Never minds who bowls, what it goes for,on what run he is....only smashing the ball.(he is the new generation Krish Srikkant for India) and India never depends him and whatever comes form him is a bonus.

 

[CDAK]

Umpires will always try to make the best decision they know how, and this was made although offering some benefit of the doubt.

I think, u have to remove that always . If umpires were that much fair in their decisions, then why did ICC go for "neutral umpires" in test matches?

 

[rajat]

For all the low memory aussies: remenber what happened to Mr. ponting the great in the last test match. If he would have been given out, if he would have been caught and all that......................
so please forget these ifs and buts. the only thing is aussies are down on their butts.

 

[Tom Halsey]

That decision was a disgrace

I wasn't for us Poms. If Aus lose the series, then it might be time for some Aussie bashing, unlike the normal Pommie bashing :P

 

[marc71178]

I think, u have to remove that always . If umpires were that much fair in their decisions, then why did ICC go for "neutral umpires" in test matches?

To avoid any allegations of bias.

And since krkode is talking about current umpires, then what has that got to do with umpiring standards 5 or 10 years ago?

 

[TendulkarFan]

That decision was a disgrace........as you say, the stump cam shot showed clearly he was out......Gilchrist knew it, and I think Sehwag did too. On this occasion, this decision had serious consequences for Australia, and Parry should be ashamed fo himself. He was plain wrong.
Aussie third umpires seem to have a problem giving visiting teams players out when they are - the same thing happened to Vaughan last summer off Bichel.
I think Australia should look closely at third umpires who have the courage to give players out on replay......maybe they are trying too hard to be impartial?

BTW, replays showed Tendulkar was out. The ball rolled off the face of his bat.

The side cam clearly showed that a fraction of his foot was behind the line, even when they zoomed in on it after the decision was made. Two camera angles - one shows it's out and the other shows it's not out. Doubtful? You betcha. Benefit of the doubt? To the batsman.

You want something to blame for the day? Blame the life Chopra got on 44, blame Katich for the sitter he dropped off Sehwag, blame the bad Aussie fielding when they could have had 2, maybe 3 run outs along with a couple of catches, blame Aussie bowlers for bowling so wide of the off stump so often the Indian batsmen almost fell to sleep leaving them alone.

 

[TendulkarFan]

I don't think anyone would want to miss a leg stump pitchup ball whether he is on 50 or 0. It's too juicy a delivery to miss out on especially for Asian players. It's just that when you are not in form , luck deserts you.

I guess you are right vishnu. Hindsight is always 20/20. I was just peeved last night with Tendulkar. I don't think things have gone this terribly wrong for him ever in his career.

 

[Tom Halsey]

That kind of comment is just stupid.
Then I look at who made it.

...and you remember that he usually talks alot more sense than you...:P

 

[luckyeddie]

I think, u have to remove that always . If umpires were that much fair in their decisions, then why did ICC go for "neutral umpires" in test matches?

Simple - to shut up whiney people