13 Players For Australia

Saddening the Indians, the Indian cricket team failed to save the second test match, losing to the Aussies on Day 5. It is very likely that Indian cricket lovers here get enraged with the players for not holding up but situation seems to be markedly different.

People here are not one bit stormed against our players but upset and angry over the fact that Australians have been playing with 13 men for them on the ground. Yeah!! Australia didn’t use 11 men on the field; they used 13 players to rise up to victory. Skipping the Indian batsmen, if you are counting the men in the white jerseys and still find it to be only 11, then don’t panic. Do count the men in the white shirts and black pants too. Yes, the umpires themselves who have neither faced a single ball with the bat nor took a long run up to bowl to Indians, array…not even did they defend a ball, hit strongly by the Indians, from reaching the boundary but standing in one single position with only the movement of hands, they have helped the Australians sail a long way to victory.

Not just on the 5th day, the whole match has been a mockery of some nonsense with Aussies blessed by the umpires. I am shocked that steve buckner has given wrong judgments.

Dravid is one person who never displays his emotions on the field but today, evidently, he moved out with all anger on his face. Ganguly’s catch was actually grounded by Clarke and was by no means a dismissal, yet he had to go back because Mark Benson raised his finger. More ridiculously, Benson confirmed the catch not by asking the third umpire but the Australian captain Ricky Ponting.
These were not the only two portrayal of partiality by the umpires on the field, but there are lots more that I don’t feel to write about because of sheer disgust towards them.

So to all the Australian cricket players (or A******S) and the umpires of the second test match (or F*****S), let me see how long you will live.