CRICKET: THE ALLEGED RACIAL ABUSE – AN OUTLOOK January 9, 2008
Posted by arun in cricket, entertainment, humor, sports, thoughts.Tags: alleged, australia, BCCI, Bucknor, cricket, dickheads, false racial abuse, ICC, inconclusive, india, old, passion, sports, umpire
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I am not an ardent admirer or a fervid fan of Cricket as I once was. However, the vehement incidents that happened over the last test match resulting in alleging and vilifying Harbhajan over racial abuse certainly gets every Indian’s attention and I am no different. I have tried to put forth my views, claims, comments as understandable as it needs to be. Yes, it is as simple as that.
First things first.
Question: Does Steve Bucknor really have a peculiar tryst with the Indian team or is he really impotent?
Answer: Both.
What is this hothead doing at 61 years umpiring when the time taken by his eyes for a simple gaze is 10 seconds minimum, the reaction time for a LBW being less than a second. Owls see better at day and snakes hear better than him. Vampires can better perform in the day than this loony screwball. Even an astronomical pince-nez buckled up his non-gazing eyes couldn’t save the spirit of cricket from this old bloke, whose fingers gets aroused when the bowler’s appeal rings in his ears (120 tests and still STANDING). Probably he should have heeded to the then umpire Dickie Bird and retired with unblemished record while he could, who had to say,
When you get to that age… I have said to Steve, ‘Don’t go on too long, get out while you are still respected
Well, Mr. Bird, that ain’t going to happen any sooner, at least not without clouting. Is it Mr. Bucknor?
Secondly, coming to the alleged racial abuse. So, lets see what Andrew Symonds had to say.
This is what happened before our confrontation. Brett Lee had just sent down a delivery and Harbhajan took off down the wicket. When he was returning to his crease, he decided to hit Brett on the backside. I have no idea why he did it. I was standing nearby and when I saw what happened, I thought, ‘Hold on, that’s not on’. I’m a firm believer in sticking up for your team-mate so I stepped in and had a bit of a crack at Harbhajan, telling him exactly what I thought of his antics. He then had a shot back, which brings us to the situation we’re facing.
This seems not an obvious taradiddle, certainly. One has to accept. However, who could assure about the credibility of the “shot back” he has mentioned. There was this deaf and blind Bucknor. Adam Gilchrist said he dint hear anything. Ricky Ponting also dint hear anything but lodged the complaint frantically over the statement of Symonds I guess. Who are the cry-babies now?? Other than that, the only player in the vicinity was Sachin excluding the alleged Harbhajan.
The match referee Mike Procter harangued,
Obviously this has all been very difficult for me. I didn’t get to sleep until 11am, and then only for a couple of hours. It has been one of the most difficult days of my life.
Hell yeah! If you couldn’t sleep, take your pills and calm down. I hope not the brains seize functioning due to lack of sleep. After innumerous incorrigible umpiring decisions and a ban over an alleged, inconclusive, biased and concocted judgement, if you expect the Indian board to be callous, then you probably should question yourself “Am I fit for this position?”. Isn’t it obvious, when there is not enough evidence, the benefit of doubt goes to the alleged.
Next, this is really interesting. Steve Waugh and Allan border had said that the whole issue is a consequence of cultural misunderstanding. Boy, why dint we think of that?? When Glenn McGrath asked Sarwan, “What does Brian Lara’s d*** taste like”, Sarwan misunderstood it because of “cultural misunderstanding”. And when Sarwan owing to the “cultural misunderstanding” backfired with the reply “Ask your wife”, again unfortunately, this time McGrath misunderstood and yelled at Sarwan “If you f***ing mention my wife again, I will f***ing rip your f***ing throat off”. Check out this video below.
Pakistan wicket keeper Rashid Latif was banned for 5 ODI over a disputed catch against Bangladesh. How is it different when Michael Clarke replicated the similar scenario? And which crackpot umpire asks the players to arrive at the decision? That too, Ricky Ponting!! We all know how much of a gentleman he is. Boy, he couldn’t tolerate his streak record against Harbhajan, out in the first ball in 5 times.
Praise Ponting, don’t bury him, says Malcolm Conn.
I say “Bugger off”. Let clear of alcohol in your system and then speak without rumbling and rambling (unlike my blog). And, don’t even get me started over Dravid’s appeal!!
Sachin’s stern belief over Harbhajan and opinion over the bias at the hearing on repudiating their views entirely has lead to the BCCI restoring the pride of India by retaliating to the excruciating injustice. BCCI has placed their views with cogent reasoning, proving their standpoint, by not yielding to the false accusations blindfoldedly. They have also announced that Indian team will continue the game in Perth with decisions regarding Harbhajan’s ban postponed for later. Lets see how far this has yet to go.
I thinks its high time to discuss the following issues which should now be debated & invetigated by ICC or by an independant agency. I am writing all points in separate comments bczo they r separate issues in itself.
1. Overall Situation indicates this only…….
…….Was it a case of Bribing Or Fixing the match with the help of Two Umpires for straight 16 Win record by None Other then PUNTER…Ricky Ponting. Remember he has been puntering this kind of things in his earlier life also. SO he knows tricks for doing it.
We should understand that after winning 15 matches & to compare himself with GREAT Steve Waugh he must be desperate and once he saw fall of 6 quick wickets on day 1 He might have done something after lunch…..till then all umpires were doing good job ……after all they gave 6 quick dismissals…………..The game changed after that….after lunch…………Bcoz this is first such incident of so much poor umpiring …………..there has to be some motive behind it………….WHO is that ??????………..WHO is that ?????………..WHO is that ?????
So was there any meeting or discussion of Punter with these umpires…….Should be investigated by all who claim to be good detectives as its a golden opportunity for them………even Its a topic for VERY GOOD STING operation………….
Now Second Issue………..
2. Are there TWO / Double standards for same error………
BCCI / Indian team MUST report an official complaint against PUNTER……..for his intentional Lies as there are sufficient proofs against him for the catch against DHONI (he himself was involved in this which he can’t deny) and against Ganguly (Clarke was involved in it)……………..
For not showing good sportsmanship being a captain of team………Rashid Latif was fined & banned for 5 matches by the SAME……….Oldy Mike Procter for the same case against Bangladesh………TV footage is available for that and its a very strong case against PUNTER………….
In such case, ICC or match referee both should take action on their own even without complaint………..But here Procter forgot this………He is always against Asians…………See his record……….
So I appeal to bring this case into such a strong forum that it is officially lodged against PONTING………..
The third is as below……
3. Mike Procter………..Basis on which he sentenced Harbhajan for ban……….based on his past record he should be expelled from the panel of match referee…………..
What were the evidences sufficient & necessary for this decision……..He should be cross examined now bcoz he has been doing it for many years ………..
It seems that he has some connections with Australia……..Though he said – “I am a South African & know racism very well………..”. So he might be having some prejudice to Asians……….
The biggest flaw is that HE is the person who will do hearing against Brad Hogg ………..DO you feel that Justice will come from the same tunnel this time…………….
4. Why only Steve Bucknor………….Who was the biggest shit……Bucknor Or Benson………….
Remember he asked for the decision to PUNTER…………..this again proves that there was some cooking between umpires & PUNTER………after lunch……….
How Benson became an umpire of Elite Panel……….Do not rely on players………..make your own judgement is the first thing known to even strret level umpires……….How Benson could do it……….that too openly……………
Anyway, Now its high time for ACB to re-think on the future of Ricky Ponting bcoz I am sure this way the prestige of entire Australian team & Australia is on stake……………No wonder if all cricket playing nations may go for collective boycott on such incidents in future…….
This is a serious issue for Australia to reconsider its image in the world & damage caused by Ricky Ponting……They should at least set an example by banning him for 1 to 4 test matches so that no other can take risk of repeating it in future…..
Dude.! What has happened to the word “Playing”..
These westeners are quite crazy as well. Making a hell outta game. First, i dont know why players should shout at each other. If they are losing, that means, they didnt play well. Its simple. And Andrew Symonds, i think the whole world knows about him. !
And Ricky ponting, well, he doesnt at all deserves to call himself a sportsman. He doesnt at all. And if justice is not the same to all, then its meaningless. It just shows that “white collared racism” is still rampant in these ICC, ACB etc..
A bitter irony in this modern world…
Hey – why did you move to WordPress?
Blog looks cool, though.
These Australian tours always seem to have these things – we try so much to ensure that tours in India are fair and in good spirit and then they go and spoil everything.
I couldn’t understand any words in that video though – wonder how the poster got all the words down…
hey balaji, I moved here coz there were more cool templates, better fonts, embedding, cool gadgets inbuilt and many other features…
from the video, you could understand the last “f***ing” sentence??
–arun.
ya that word is always easy
The other lines were hard to figure out…