Sachin Again on Fire

Sachin Tendulkar hits a stroke during the first day of the Adelaide Test














Sachin Tendulkar raises his bat after his 39th Test century in Adelaide

Padm Shri Anil Kumble

He is just third bowler in the history of game to have six hundred wickets to his name, and its time that the whole nation stands up and takes a bow to this big of Indian cricket. Kumble was appointed the captain of the Indian Test cricket team on 8 November 2007

On 600th test wicket Anil Kumble says : It is something very special. It is a landmark, which I was close to before coming here, and the way it happened today. It was a crucial wicket so it was a very special moment.

Before the Perth Test Kumble has played 123 Test matches of which India won 41. His contribution in those matches is massive - 279 wickets at an average of 18.41 with 20 five-wicket hauls. The legend of Anil Kumble is growing with every passing day.

Kumble achieved the record just after the tea break when he had Andrew Symonds caught by Rahul Dravid at first slip. In a friendly gesture, Adam Gilchrist shook hands with Kumble and congratulated him.
He has taken over 600 Test wickets and 330 ODI wickets. Although often criticized as not a big turner of the ball, Kumble is the second highest wicket taker among leg spinners in Test cricket behind leg spinner Shane warne of australia and the third of all bowlers after Warne and off spinner murlitharan of sri lanka and has claimed over 600 Test wickets. He is one of only two bowlers in the history of cricket to have taken all 10 wickets in a test innings, the other being jim laker of england. Kumble is currently ranked the 5th best bowler in Tests by the ICC. He was awarded Padm Shri by "Government of India".

Racism Vampires

Typical Vampire-The Aussies

The 2nd Test match between India and Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) was marred by many

Worst umpiring decisions most of which went against the Indians. Stephen A. Bucknor, the old age umpire from the West Indies, was the culprit on most of the occasions giving one shocking decision after another as India went on to lose the match by 122 runs and with it any hope of winning back the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

The poor standard of umpiring caused a lot of heartburn in the Indian team and also among their fans.

Wrong Decisions

1. Not giving out Australian captain Ponting on Day 1; when he had edged the ball and then giving him out LBW when there was a clear edge on to the pads.
2. Symonds got a reprieve when he was not given out caught behind despite clearly edging the ball. The third umpire, too, ruled Symonds not out when his feet was in the air and Mahendra Singh Dhoni had stumped him. Symonds went on to score a century.
3. Bucknor came to Symonds’ rescue once again in second innings, too, and did not even refer the 3rd umpire for a stumping appeal. Symonds was out of his ground.
4. He raised his finger when the ball had only touched Rahul Dravid’s pad and ruled him out caught behind.
5. Umpire Mark Benson gave Sourav Ganguly out caught by Michael Clarke in the slips preferring to take Ponting’s help to make his decision rather than go to the third umpire. So India were always on the receiving end of umpiring decisions during the second Test match.
6. Match referee Mike Procter announced that Harbhajan had indeed been racist in his remarks to Andrew Symonds when there was apparently no one to corroborate the accusation except for other Aussie players.
7. The umpires had not heard anything and the television cameras and microphones had picked nothing. However, Procter decided not to give the benefit of doubt to the accused when it was one man's word against the other's word.
8. Mike Procter never believe the words of worlds no. one cricketer Sachin Tendulkar who was with harbhajan on the ground. Shame on Australian!