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Originally Posted by Bigfella
No, what is pathetic is people who want to reduce a fine sport to a sterile computer game because they don't like the result.
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A sport becomes "fine" when it is played on the basis of skills, and not on which side the umpires are favoring. It can only get better; why would you oppose something which makes skill more primary then it is?
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If you were really concerned about the quality of umpiring you would also have mentioned that Dravid was plumb LBW later in the day & not given. This isn't about the standard of umpiring, it is about supporting an artificially created sense of victimhood.
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If he was out, he was out, you think that makes me back on my stance on making the game
fair? The moment one starts complaining is at the number of decisions which go against the team, and the number of decisions which go for. Just check the last match and tell me how many decisions went against us, and how many for us? If you just look at that game, due to the umpire's decisions, India literally only got one innings of play. Yet, when Australian batting line-up was totally annihlated in the first innings, the umpires kept Symonds on the pitch despite him being clearly out
3 times! Bucknor was blind, and that is the reason he is flying back home.
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Unfortunately, events over the past decade have repeatedly shown the ICC to be utterly craven in the face of whinging from South Asian nations. Rules have been changed, nations have been allowed to pick & choose umpires & the authority of officials has been undermined.
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Funny how just seconds ago you talked about an "artificially created sense of victimhood." Yes, how unfortunate bigfellow that with the independence, growth and emergence of South Asia, never again will another Donald Bradman happen.
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In time you will probably get your wish. Who will you blame when your team can't win then?
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God, and ofcourse the players.
But then, loosing in such circumstances means that we lost because of our players and can improve; when one's players are playing in-form and thrown out of the match by blind umpires, then one can hardly blame the players!