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!