This match is f@$Kin fixed!
Posted on Jan 06, 2008 by Scorpicity |That’s it folks! After watching some more atrocious one-sided umpiring happen, I have lost any love to continue watching this series… no more further posts about the series. This match is F@$kin fixed.
Congratulations Australia… you didn’t deserve a win or a draw… obviously things have been arranged for you on a platter by two ass of an umpires, who are not fit to officiate even in a kinder garden level school match.
No balls are promptly called when India bowls and such a rule doesn’t exist for Australia. If an umpire cannot spot a no-ball and that too consistently, he has to be stripped and his balls thrown to the leaches.
Rahul getting out was a super shocker… the gap between bat and ball was large enough to accomodate Pamela Anderson’s implants. Benson & Edges not asking the third umpire on clarke grassing the catch was predictable. After all, the reputation of Ponting and Clarke is spotless right… with one guy who grassed a catch a few overs earlier and appealed and the other who nicked the ball to slip and waited. Let’s not forget the horrible catch which Clarke had grassed during the new zealand series, which he claimed as taken… all this shows the trust.
On top of this, there is a racial abuse allegation by another moron , who has clearly made it up and has brought absolute disrepute to the game. I wonder who is being subjected to racial abuse now?
Yuvraj should be outright dropped and after the series, India need to look for two openers. DK has to be brought in next match.
It is pointless for me watching this series anymore… the spirit is gone and the game is shit…. this is pathetic. This is nothing more than plain outright thievery, cheating and racial abuse. The Australians and the umpires can now wank happily on the Border-Gavaskar trophy.
by straight point, on January 6 2008 @ 1:13 pm
i am with you scorpy…
its has stooped so low that i find it insulting…
by Ottayan, on January 6 2008 @ 5:37 pm
Scorpi,
“the gap between bat and ball was large enough to accomodate Pamela Anderson’s implants” - It was that huge eh!
by Soulberry, on January 6 2008 @ 10:14 pm
Scorp…the web is crawling with those who who call people like you and me and SP, paranoids, whiners, conspiracy theorists and worse. But wait till suc h a time that a book comes out…which I’m sure it will after some time.
I’m sure something will break through and something will come out from somewhere.
by scorpicity, on January 6 2008 @ 10:33 pm
SP.. insulting yes… for almost 4 days, I had believed that the Australians did not cheat and the umpires did… it makes it more difficult to see on the final day that Australia was nothing more than a bunch of cheats themselves hand-in-hand with the umpires.
by scorpicity, on January 6 2008 @ 10:34 pm
Otts, I swear it was that big
by scorpicity, on January 6 2008 @ 10:36 pm
Soulberry… I guess we need not give a **** to those people at all… if they can make cliched statements of Indians being taxi and truck drivers, then they are nothing more than a bunch of F****** convicts who cheat!! This has been a day where I have used so many expletives… there is no end to this disappointment… those convicts are cheats… nothing more!
by Homer, on January 6 2008 @ 10:44 pm
Disappointment for what Scorpi? Could we have asked more from our team - they played like Gladiators.
The question that needs to be answered now is, will the BCCI step up to the plate or will the effort by our men be another chapter in the book of “The players put thier lives on the line only for the administration to screw up”.
by scorpicity, on January 6 2008 @ 10:58 pm
Homer… am not disappointed with team India at all.. they played like champions and deserved to win this match hands down!! I agree with you that the BCCI should shove it up their backsides now, otherwise all is lost!
by sudhir, on January 7 2008 @ 4:20 pm
Dear Mr.Ponting,
Firstly congratulations on starting the New year by winning the Sydney Test match, it was a fantastic come from behind victory, one which will rival the victory at Adelaide in the Ashes in 2006. Many congratulations also on equaling the record of securing 16 consecutive Test wins on the trot.
Dare I say it though, deep down there must be a certain lack of satisfaction about the manner in which the win was completed. No, I’m talking about you not contributing anything and getting out to Harbhajan faster than he can say “Tandoori Chicken”. I’m talking about the spirit and the sportsmanship with which the game was played. I know what you are thinking,” the Umpiring is neutral, how can you blame the Australians for that.”
Yes, you are probably right, though a bad decision count of 9 to 1 in favor of the Australians can hardly be termed as neutral. Anil Kumble said at the press match conference, “ Only 1 team played in the spirit of the game.” Since, you quite obviously don’t agree with this statement, let me refresh your memory and take you through a few events that unfolded in those dark days in Sydney.
4th day of the Test match, Michael Clarke caught at slips. Let me repeat ‘Slips’, yes that chap who stands next to the wicket keeper. But Michael Clarke waits till he is ‘given out’? I realize that Andrew Symonds got 3 lives and Hussey 2, but really caught at slips? What next? Will you stand your ground if you get bowled as well? Maybe you should have when you got bowled for just 1 run in the Test Match at the MCG.
5th day of the Test Match, you Mr.Ponting are convinced that your best mate Clarke hung on to a catch and decide to give Ganguly out. Firstly, how can you be sure Clarke caught it when replays clearly show otherwise? Secondly, when did you become an Umpire? What gives you the judicial high-ground to give people out?
Move ahead, a few overs later. You take a catch of Dhoni and then clearly press the ball onto the ground, further still you even press the ball on the ground taking support on it to stand up. And then you appeal? You appeal Mr.Ponting? I realize Australians are not really well known for being cultured, articulate or any of those things, but surely that was pushing it too far.
If that was not enough, you have seemingly masterminded the best way of ensuring you don’t face Harbhajan for the rest of the series. Quite simple really, make up a story that Bhajji called Symonds a “Monkey” and then pressurize and mob the referee to get the ruling in your favor. It’s your word against the Indians, are you more correct because you are of fairer skin? Who is really being racist here?
Really who would want to tour your country anymore? First you guys make up stories about Yuvraj’s supposed attitude problem then you decide who deserves a place in the media room, further you concoct a story about Harbhajan Singh.
Surely, surely Mr. Ponting, they are better ways to win Test matches. India had no business losing 3 wickets with 2 overs to go, but really deep down you know you haven’t played this game in the right spirit. You can go on, go ahead, win 20 Test Matches, win 40 win even 100. Call your opponents for Chucking, Boo them, and heckle them. The World is watching Mr. Ponting, and there is a god up above (Even in your country). If there is one thing that the World is unanimous on, it’s that these victories don’t count for anything. For all of us Indians, the series is 1-1. We won the Test match at Sydney.
I can see the picture quite clearly 3 years from now. The world decides that they have had enough of touring Australia. The Boxing Day Test match in 2010, its Tasmania Vs Victoria, bump catches are given out, the 3rd umpire is a blind man and guess who’s umpiring, you guessed it, it’s Messrs. Bucknor and Benson.
Shame on you Australia. Shame on you Ricky Ponting.
by kp, on January 7 2008 @ 8:11 pm
its shame on ICC for not taking the blame and Australia for killing the sportsmanship of the game!!!
Boycott the Tour……..
fight for Bhajji
by Dinnie, on January 7 2008 @ 10:50 pm
You know how Ozzies are hurling abuses at us on the forums?
I am staying out of all this. Not worth my time.
by scorpicity, on January 7 2008 @ 11:28 pm
Welcome Sudhir to cricketfizz…. we all share your disappointment… hope to see more of you in this blog.
by scorpicity, on January 7 2008 @ 11:30 pm
Dinnie… am shutting off this blog for the rest of this test series… not worth anything at all.
by scorpicity, on January 7 2008 @ 11:39 pm
KP… yes, so many guys from the slips, behind the stumps, a guy at point can supposedly have heard a slur so far away which an umpire a few yards to them couldn’t. The Guy who was closest was Tendulkar, who has echoed that no such thing happened… this is fixed!
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by Thomas, on January 8 2008 @ 11:08 am
Ponting’s captiency is a real stupid thing, we have ever seen in the history of cricket. If he still continues as an international player, it will be a big shame to Australian team.
by scorpicity, on January 8 2008 @ 11:09 am
Welcome Thomas to cricketfizz… On Ponting, maybe you are being bit too harsh… But i share your disappointment in the manner this match happened.