Comments on: Hogg inspires Australian mauling

By: scorpicity

scorpicity — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:19:40 +0000

hey Kp, Welcome to cricketfizz… umpiring was terrible indeed… but it isn’t the end of the world though… cheers

By: kp

kp — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:12:08 +0000

I have two words sir…..

POOR UMPIRING

By: scorpicity

scorpicity — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:06:48 +0000

true Otts, hope it is just temporary….

By: Ottayan

Ottayan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:50:05 +0000

Scorpi,

The umpiring was rank bad. Let us hope they stay that way throught this match.

By: scorpicity

scorpicity — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:40:05 +0000

hey CG, SP… maybe it’s time for a baseball coach or someone in the caliber of Rhodes… hopefully Kirsten may be able to provide some solution, as it is getting out of hand by every series.

SP, you raise a valid point… there have been many instances of teams complaining about that… perhaps something ugly is lurking or maybe many things are over-exaggerated… until it comes out, we will never know.

It will be very interesting to see if Ricky Ponting is pulled up for dissent… it was nothing different from what Yuvraj singh showed. That will be some sign.

These umpires are neutral, so let’s not jump the gun, until something substantial comes out… cheers guys

By: straight point

straight point — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:53:40 +0000

scorpy

you have raised a very good issue…

if after so long with the team we are like this on field than either coach is not asserting himself or is not doing good…and in both cases he should be shown the door…

it looks very mature to say that umpiring decisions were not good in ‘neutral way’ but one have to ask why its always visiting teams who faces the brunt down under…

ask srilanka…who recently visited there…and i am sure that till the series is over we will see lots of them probable more than we will see whole year !!

By: cricket guru

cricket guru — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:31:03 +0000

For once, a post not being too critical of the umps! Good one.

I would like to pick your closing comments - “India’s fielding coach need to be sacked… there is nothing more to it. I know for a fact that Robin Singh was a fabulous under-19 coach. It maybe because he is stuck with his peers from his playing days, that they might not be treating him seriously.”

Absolutely spot on. I have my reservations on having an ex player as coach, esp when few of his contenmporaries are still in the team.