Though it is obvious that using the word 'Bullshit' in any Public space, leave alone a public blog, is not fair and is absolutely ridiculous, it seems that it is the only word that suits to describe what happened at the SCG last Sunday. Here there was a test match which was farcical, satirical and nonsensical and above all, grossly biased. There were 11 Aussie players, all garbed in gentlemen dress playing a gentleman's game with utmost disregard for honesty, purity, virtue, decency, morality and integrity. They say that a team always takes the personality of the captain and this is very much evident in the current Australian team where the whole team takes on the boorish personality of their captain, the boorish and vulgar Ponting. Mr.Ponting on a cricket field looks less like a captain leading a cricket team and more like a thug heading a group of ruffians constantly abusing the opposition, bullying the opponents and intimidating the umpires.
The team of liars and their cheat captain, Ponting were interested only in winning the match by hook or by crook to equal the most consecutive test match wins by a team and therefore for that, they blatantly told lies, did on-field cheating and virtually bullied the incompetent umpires to give decisions in favour of them and thereby manoeuver a pretty much unlikely test match win for them. It is a shame that a champion team like Australia has to resort to such disgraceful deeds to overcome a team while playing a hard game of test match cricket. We all are pretty sure that Harbhajan's "bunny", Mr.Ponting is using Symonds' allegation of racial slur on Harbhajan to see the back of him as Bhajji has started taking Ponting's wicket at his will. The Aussie captain is afraid of the canny off spinner and is using this issue to demoralize him or to 'mentally disintegrate' him, to use Steve Waugh's terminology. Mr.Ponting is not having the slightest of integrity left in him as was evident on Sunday when he was making some of the most ludicrous claims of taking a catch. In one instance he was very vociferous in his appeal against MS Dhoni when he had actually grassed the catch.
One of the most obvious truths about the Australian team, which is not often referred about, is that they are not at all suited to play the gentlemen game and the Australian cricket board would do good if they would take some steps to put these Aussie "kids" back to school so that they can learn some manners and then come back to play cricket. The Australians are so arrogant about their cricket acumen that they have long forgotten that more than winning, what is important is to play a game in the right spirit of the game. It was so shocking to see Adam Gilchrist, the Aussie who walks, and Michael Clark, the captain-to-be, also involved in such ridiculous attempts of bad sportsmanship.
To say that the umpiring in the Sydney test was farcical would be an understatement. The incompetent umpires - Steve Bucknor and Mark Benson had ruined a much awaited test match. Mr.Bucknor, already under the scanner for giving a lot of decisions against the Indians were at the forefront to knit sinister designs to undermine Indian players' efforts on the field. His decision to give not out to Symonds when he was caught behind while he was just 30 runs had turned out to be a series deciding decision. He also failed to refer the third umpire in one such shocking incidence when Symonds was out of the crease and Dhoni stumped him on the bowling of Harbhajan Singh. The third and most atrocious decision came when he adjudged Rahul Dravid caught behind in the second innings when his bat was way away from the ball and this decision was fatal for the Indians as they were looking forward to that wonderful partnership between Dravid and Ganguly to save the game. But the liars, Ponting and Co., connived with Mr.Bucknor in successfully sabotaging India's efforts with their malicious "play-ground" like appealing demeanor. The other on field umpire, Mark Benson was equally inept and incompetent where he was not able to hear the knick that Ponting made while he was leg glancing Ganguly in the first innings and was stupid and outrageously funny when he asked Mr.Ponting and not the third umpire, whether Michael Clark had taken Ganguly's catch cleanly or had he grassed it in the final day. Even a mere thought of the third umpire, Mr.Bruce Oxenford brings disgust, loathe and nauseation as that dumb buffoon, who is infact the Director of a furniture showroom at Brisbane, had made a mockery of the usage of technology in umpiring decisions. His atrocious act of giving Symonds not out, when he was stumped by Dhoni off Kumble while the television replays made it clear that his foot was not grounded, was awful and appalling and made it clear that he would be good enough only to sell wood and should be considered an absolute outcast in a cricket field. Cricket Australia would do a big service to the game of cricket if they would fire this abominable clown from taking part in any aspect of the game.
Refereeing by Mike Proctor in the Sydney test match was biased to say the least. Only Mr.Proctor knows what hell on this earth has prompted him to declare that Harbhajan has committed racial abuse when he himself had said on record that the evidences against Harbhajan are inconclusive. There were no audio or video evidences against him and the umpires had testified that they haven't heard anything either. So he was making his judgment only on hearing what the knave Clarke and Hayden had said and turned a Nelson's eye to what Tendulkar had testified. This was taking the word of one person over another and this is tantamount to saying that he doubts the integrity of the Indians while he has absolute trust on the words of the Australians. This is an insult to India and all Indians and is a scathing remark by a Whiteman against the Indians and hence is a racist outpouring. Let Mr.Procter make the evidences public on which he has convicted Harbhajan, let him come clean and if you have any guts Mr.Procter, come up with your damn evidences and then we'll decide who is guilty and who is not, but not before that.
Some quarters of the Australian press and majority of Australians are furious that the Indians are speaking against the three test ban on Harbhajan. They themselves presume that Harbhajan is guilty of racial slur and need no hard evidences to accuse Harbhajan and interestingly find that India has no moral right to appeal against the verdict. Hey you Aussies, is this the way legal matters work in your country ? Do your legal system hear only the evidences provided by the accuser and his friends and make judgments against the accused ? If this is how it works there, then I am sorry to say that the legal system in your country is as sick as your cricket players are and is bound to be damned.
There is absolutely no point in continuing playing like this at a place where we Indians are sure that we wont get justice.The biased umpires, the opinionated match referee and an opposition that would go to any ludicrous extend to win a match are not the people from whom we can expect good demeanor.So stand up guys, because here our national pride is at stake and we are a proud country with a great history and a great civilization. The BCCI should jettison its pusillanimity and should flex its political and economic muscle to make the ICC bow down and bring justice to all Indians in general and Harbhajan Singh in particular. We want order and natural justice to prevail and should not back off until absolute justice is attained.
The team of liars and their cheat captain, Ponting were interested only in winning the match by hook or by crook to equal the most consecutive test match wins by a team and therefore for that, they blatantly told lies, did on-field cheating and virtually bullied the incompetent umpires to give decisions in favour of them and thereby manoeuver a pretty much unlikely test match win for them. It is a shame that a champion team like Australia has to resort to such disgraceful deeds to overcome a team while playing a hard game of test match cricket. We all are pretty sure that Harbhajan's "bunny", Mr.Ponting is using Symonds' allegation of racial slur on Harbhajan to see the back of him as Bhajji has started taking Ponting's wicket at his will. The Aussie captain is afraid of the canny off spinner and is using this issue to demoralize him or to 'mentally disintegrate' him, to use Steve Waugh's terminology. Mr.Ponting is not having the slightest of integrity left in him as was evident on Sunday when he was making some of the most ludicrous claims of taking a catch. In one instance he was very vociferous in his appeal against MS Dhoni when he had actually grassed the catch.
One of the most obvious truths about the Australian team, which is not often referred about, is that they are not at all suited to play the gentlemen game and the Australian cricket board would do good if they would take some steps to put these Aussie "kids" back to school so that they can learn some manners and then come back to play cricket. The Australians are so arrogant about their cricket acumen that they have long forgotten that more than winning, what is important is to play a game in the right spirit of the game. It was so shocking to see Adam Gilchrist, the Aussie who walks, and Michael Clark, the captain-to-be, also involved in such ridiculous attempts of bad sportsmanship.
To say that the umpiring in the Sydney test was farcical would be an understatement. The incompetent umpires - Steve Bucknor and Mark Benson had ruined a much awaited test match. Mr.Bucknor, already under the scanner for giving a lot of decisions against the Indians were at the forefront to knit sinister designs to undermine Indian players' efforts on the field. His decision to give not out to Symonds when he was caught behind while he was just 30 runs had turned out to be a series deciding decision. He also failed to refer the third umpire in one such shocking incidence when Symonds was out of the crease and Dhoni stumped him on the bowling of Harbhajan Singh. The third and most atrocious decision came when he adjudged Rahul Dravid caught behind in the second innings when his bat was way away from the ball and this decision was fatal for the Indians as they were looking forward to that wonderful partnership between Dravid and Ganguly to save the game. But the liars, Ponting and Co., connived with Mr.Bucknor in successfully sabotaging India's efforts with their malicious "play-ground" like appealing demeanor. The other on field umpire, Mark Benson was equally inept and incompetent where he was not able to hear the knick that Ponting made while he was leg glancing Ganguly in the first innings and was stupid and outrageously funny when he asked Mr.Ponting and not the third umpire, whether Michael Clark had taken Ganguly's catch cleanly or had he grassed it in the final day. Even a mere thought of the third umpire, Mr.Bruce Oxenford brings disgust, loathe and nauseation as that dumb buffoon, who is infact the Director of a furniture showroom at Brisbane, had made a mockery of the usage of technology in umpiring decisions. His atrocious act of giving Symonds not out, when he was stumped by Dhoni off Kumble while the television replays made it clear that his foot was not grounded, was awful and appalling and made it clear that he would be good enough only to sell wood and should be considered an absolute outcast in a cricket field. Cricket Australia would do a big service to the game of cricket if they would fire this abominable clown from taking part in any aspect of the game.
Refereeing by Mike Proctor in the Sydney test match was biased to say the least. Only Mr.Proctor knows what hell on this earth has prompted him to declare that Harbhajan has committed racial abuse when he himself had said on record that the evidences against Harbhajan are inconclusive. There were no audio or video evidences against him and the umpires had testified that they haven't heard anything either. So he was making his judgment only on hearing what the knave Clarke and Hayden had said and turned a Nelson's eye to what Tendulkar had testified. This was taking the word of one person over another and this is tantamount to saying that he doubts the integrity of the Indians while he has absolute trust on the words of the Australians. This is an insult to India and all Indians and is a scathing remark by a Whiteman against the Indians and hence is a racist outpouring. Let Mr.Procter make the evidences public on which he has convicted Harbhajan, let him come clean and if you have any guts Mr.Procter, come up with your damn evidences and then we'll decide who is guilty and who is not, but not before that.
Some quarters of the Australian press and majority of Australians are furious that the Indians are speaking against the three test ban on Harbhajan. They themselves presume that Harbhajan is guilty of racial slur and need no hard evidences to accuse Harbhajan and interestingly find that India has no moral right to appeal against the verdict. Hey you Aussies, is this the way legal matters work in your country ? Do your legal system hear only the evidences provided by the accuser and his friends and make judgments against the accused ? If this is how it works there, then I am sorry to say that the legal system in your country is as sick as your cricket players are and is bound to be damned.
There is absolutely no point in continuing playing like this at a place where we Indians are sure that we wont get justice.The biased umpires, the opinionated match referee and an opposition that would go to any ludicrous extend to win a match are not the people from whom we can expect good demeanor.So stand up guys, because here our national pride is at stake and we are a proud country with a great history and a great civilization. The BCCI should jettison its pusillanimity and should flex its political and economic muscle to make the ICC bow down and bring justice to all Indians in general and Harbhajan Singh in particular. We want order and natural justice to prevail and should not back off until absolute justice is attained.
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Fantastic article,Aravind..... Dude,u have hit the bull's eye. The entire episode was a utterly stinky 'Bullshit'(to borrow ur words). What I can't stand is that the cry-baby Aussies r justifying their actions, even in hindsight.
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