Australians are NOT Guilty… Neither is Ponting….
This was something that I was not going to comment on because I thought it to be something that is everyday stuff. I was clearly wrong it seems. Every cricket fan knows what happened on the field. I will start with some things.
First is, about the officials. The umpires were appointed by ICC and not Cricket Australia, so stop commenting against Australia on the matter. Indian people (I am talking about the masses and not the individual) are useless. They always talk and claim that ICC is in pocket of BCCI because 95% of the income of ICC is from BCCI. Now, we also know that Sunil Gawaskar, a former Indian cricketer is the head of the appointment of the umpires for ICC. So, don’t blame Australia for the black works of the umpires.
Now the part where Ponting said out to Ganguly. Again, this is the mistake made by umpires not Ponting. The umpire, Mark Benson asked Ponting if Ganguly was out. He said Ganguly was out. Because he believed in that. Well I don’t know what people will say of that, but I think believing in yourself and your team members is the best quality a Captain could ask for. He did that and proved that. Remember, players also see the action in the real time. That means it was a fraction of a second before that catch was taken. So, maybe Clarke thought that he had scooped that catch clearly. And Ponting believed in his teammate and said that the catch was scooped clearly. Now, again, whatever the players may say, this was shear stupidity of the umpires to ask players for decisions. If you talk about the second catch taken by Ponting while diving, first you show me other people who can dive like that and catch the ball. And then tell me how many of them are thinking about the ball not touching the ground. I mean it is stupidity to ask a player to see the ball, time the dive, catch the ball, control the emotion that he has taken it and also see if he has not accidentally brushed the ground in the process. He is not a robot. He appealed and that is what players do.
If you are against that appeal, then what would you say to your so called idol of sportsmanship Kumble appealing for LBW when the ball had clipped the bat of asking for a catch when the ball had not touched the bat in the first match when he was desperate and not getting any wicket? Why did he appeal? Do I hear words like appealing cause he ‘thought‘ it was a catch? or LBW?Why did he appeal? Shouldn’t't he have thought about the sportsmanship? Ridiculous. Indians are blinded stupidly. That appeal he did was fully appreciated. And do remember that Ponting has the best eye in international cricket today and 99% of the times, when he claims a catch it is out.
Can anyone tell me the occasions when Ponting has cheated like people are claiming now? None can. Look at his 16 year old carrier and then speak. Again, Indian players are not very good at this are they? Remember the 7th ODI match in Mumbai this year? It was Murali Karthik who had edged one to Gilly and did not go and then admitted at the presentation that he had nicked one to the keeper? Australia lost that match. Did they complain against the umpire? No they did not. Because these things happen. Similar to what Ponting and Symonds did. Why should they have walked out on those occasions? I say it again, the Umpiring was poor and action should be taken against them, bu expecting Australians to be saints is just asking for too much.
Now for the part where Harbhajan issue comes in. You know that there is a law in India that if a person , A complains against the other, B that B called A by racist comments then B is sent to jail without any other proof needed. Just on the words of A. Now it is pathetic and shameful that in a Country like this people expect ICC to not believe on what Australians have claimed against Harbhajan and his comments. Also that he was warned in the series in India for racist comments against Symonds. And even the public was part of it. So again, I think it is shameful what Indians are doing. If you have a law like that stated above, you have no right to comment against what has been going on against Harbhajan.
Indians have logged a complaint against Hogg. Because Australia logged one. Now, I don’t think that the teams are different after all. It does not matter who started. Some bloke was killing innocent people so I killed him. So I am a killer… Yeah but he started and they were all innocent people. Still, it does not change the fact that you are one to. Maybe he also started like you did. So, it does not matter that Australia were the first to log complaint, India are no different.
I agree with the former players that the matter should have been closed on the field amongst the players. But it was not. Maybe they could not solve it. Whose word do you have? Why believe in the Indian players and not the Australians? For all we know any one of them may be lying. Why always it is Ponting who lies in your eyes? Why can’t all the Indians be lying about Harabhajan being innocent? But no, no one is going to think that. For gods sake there are those stupid little Indian idols of sportsmanship, gods. Sick.
No one knows what actually happened on the field. And I don’t think that it will ever come out. Maybe it is best that the matter is handed over to ICC. The officials will handle with the facts. I admit that I was hurt and it felt bad. Not because what Ponting or the Australians did. I feel bad because they did not realize that the Indians were just as pointless as a chalk. All ’round’ thinking. They focus one point and see that one only.
My dad was telling me that I should support India because it is Nation’s pride what we are dealing with. Well, if the pride of the nation is violated by such a small inccident, I don’t want to be from this nation. No matter what, I will not support the things which have all the flaws stated above. Both the teams are guilty of the charges (same) in equal way. Bombarding against one is useless. But I don’t see people thinking like that. I guess they never will.
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Aditya January 8th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Ha… See, there you go again. Thinking that Australians wanted to do that to Harabhajan. Why am I the one blinded there? Have you ever thought that they might not have that intention at all?
And I don’t understand how can commenting on Harabhajan made him lose his confidence and make racist comments, IF WE ASSUME YOU TO BE TRUE that is. How?
See, no one except the players knows what is going on or what did actually happen. As I said, I know that the Australians behaved badly and that was bad. But people are behaving like Indians were/are saints. Remember what I wrote about the Murder thing. It does not matter who started. Indians are doing the same thing by reporting Hogg. It does not change anything.