Cricketers are no more having Sporting spirit

HI friends,

Good evening to all of you.. Cricket is no more a gentleman's game. I have never seen so worst game in my life and unfortunately the match was the 2nd Test match between India and Australia in Sydney. Ponting has no sporting spirit and he has proved to the world yesterday. The positive aspect in the game is the knocks of Mathew Hayden, Sachin Tendulkar, Mike Hussey, VVS Laxman centuries. I don't like to include the innings of Andrew Symonds because he too has no sporting spirit & he has achieved the hundred with the help of bad umpiring.

Some of the good bowling performances were of Brett Lee,Anil kumble, Staurt Clark, Michael Clarke (Who took quick 3 wickets of Indian tail to help Aussies to win the test match), R.P.Singh, Ishant Sharma(Bad luck for not getting wicket of A Symonds) & Harbhajan Singh. Here also I don't like to put the name of Andrew Symonds in the above list and he was the person who appealed wildly to balls which pitch outside the 3 stumps & asking for a leg before the wicket. Fortunately Mr. Symonds able to get one wicket of Dhoni. Rahul Dravid was given out when ball brushed the pads, dravid wicket was also taken by Symonds.

In the first innings Indian bowlers quickly removed Australian top order and were in process to remove Australian batsman for less than 250 runs. Here comes Mr. Steve Buckner the umpire who did not give out when Andrew Symonds nicked the ball & gave a catch comfortably to Dhoni. Symonds score was 30 runs & later this same batsman got 2 more life's, one with the help of Steve Buckner & another in the form of 3rd umpire. With that many life's it is enough for Mr Symonds to save the game for Australia. He score 162 not out & with him Brad Hogg build a partnership & Australia able to come out of low score to some 400 plus runs.

In the first innings India too was in trouble when Jaffer was given out to a no-ball (here the umpire was admiring the yorker of Brett lee forget to give the no ball) but Dravid & Laxman built a decent partnership and dravid got out on 53, India was 182-2. Laxman played terrific knock & scored 109 & was out soon after dravid got out and India's score was reading 185-3.The master blaster Sachin Tendulkar partnered with ganguly & score was moving smoothly. Ganguly got out when playing a poor shot and his score was 67 & suddenly India lost 4 quick wickets in hurry and India's score was reading 345-7, 92.5 overs. Then came Harbhajan Singh who partnered with Sachin Tendulkar & played a superb knock & helped Indian score to reach 500 & got out when Singh's personal score was reading 63. The tail of India stretched the lead to 69 runs. Here Sachin should have attacked a bit more but he did not do so. India was all out for 532... Brett lee took 5 wickets for the Aussies.

In the 2nd innings Australia came up with good batting displays from Hayden 123, Hussey scored 145 not out, P jaques with a 42, Symonds with 61, remaining batsman got out cheaply & Australia achieved a lead of 332 & India was given a target of 333 to win the test match. India need to score those runs in alloted 72 overs.

The whole drama started in the 2nd innings, first Jaffer was quick to depart. Laxman & Sachin got out to Staurt Clark. India was struggling when the score was reading 54-3. Dravid was dropped by Mr. Symonds in the slips and it was an straight easy catch. Dravid & Ganguly build a beautiful partnership to save the day for India. Unfortunately Dravid was given out and replays clearly show that the ball has brushed the pads and not the bat. Ganguly was also given out & umpire instead of consulting the third umpire consulted the Australian captain for giving out. See the picture below. Later in press conference Ponting came up with a some excuse.

Yuvaraj was quick to depart. Dhoni & Anil Kumble build a good partnership and the match was again heading to a draw. Here the he-man Dhoni kept on playing with legs instead of bat in one full over of symonds, then in another over Dhoni applied same tactics here the umpire gave out to a ball which pitched outside the half stump & turned a bit towards the half stump. But on another day in different situation the umpire would not have given out for that ball. Here the fault is Dhoni's. He should have learned the way Anil Kumble batted. Then Harbhajan played good attacking shots but when Michael Clarke came to bowl the last before over, he got a beauty which bounced & hit the edge & went into the slips. R.P.Singh too was given out quickly by umpire (another poor decision, the ball pitched on the leg stump & hitting the pad above the knee & ball was traveling outside the leg stump when contacting the pad. The batsman was forward as well). The last wicket was the repeat of Harbhajan Singh's dismissal. The Australians players celebrated wildly without bothering to shake the hands with Indians players.

The umpires were clearly playing for Australians in this game & instead of giving Man of match to Symonds, the award should be given to Steve Buckner,Benson & last but no least the third umpire. The umpiring was poor in the first test MCG as well. Where Yuvaraj Singh was given out in the same fashion Dravid was given out & some other Indian players were facing bad decision. This itself shows that Australia is poor in sportive spirit. Umpires were bribed & Australia were not able to get out India, so played cheap tricks... I hope if this tour continues, India should win atleast one test & show the world that they are not less than Aussies team....

After humilating India with a bad umpiring, Harbhajan Singh was accused with Racial assault. Match referee listened to Mr Micheal Clarke & another player who were far away from the incident & slashed a ban of 3 tests match on Harbhajan, Australia wants Ricky Ponting to play a good knock in the next test match if Harbhajan is in the playing 11 Mr.Ponting will never able to go towards a big knock,so plot was planned. The match referee & ICC are so blind & deaf that they are listening to only one party that is the host nation. Even if ICC uplift the ban the bad name for Harbhajan will never be wiped out. Australia played dirty game with Mutaih Muralidharan because Aussies were not able to play him comfortably....

With lots of love
Vamsi............