Oz Tour Stands Suspended Till Harbhajan Issue Is Resolved: BCCI

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Oz Tour Stands Suspended Till Harbhajan Issue Is Resolved: BCCI

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Written by Piyush Joshi

Tuesday, 08 January 2008

MONDAY, JAN 7, (News Locale) - The Board of Control for Cricket has taken strong exception to events unfolding Down Under and has categorically stated that the Australian tour stands suspended until the Harbhajan Singh issue is resolved.

After an early morning meeting at the house of BCCI President Sharad Pawar, the board put its lot firmly behind Team India. Describing the ban handed to spinner Harbhajan as unfair; the BCCI also said that it had formally demanded the dismissal of beleaguered umpires Steve Bucknor and Mark Benson from the rest of the series.

An outpouring of emotions was worsened by the decision of match referee Mike Proctor to ban Bhajji for 3 Tests for allegedly racially abusing Andrew Symonds. The huge protests, which included burning of the umpires' effigies in Kanpur and Kolkata, triggered an emergency meeting on the Board. Vice President Rajiv Shukla told reporters the BCCI had decided to suspend the tour till the off spinner was vindicated.

"The Indian Board realises the game of cricket is paramount but so too is the honour of the Indian team and for that matter every Indian," a BCCI statement added. "To vindicate its position, the Board will fight the blatantly false and unfair slur on an Indian player."

The umpires were largely responsible for India losing the Sydney Test. The man under the scanner Steve Bucknor gave Rahul Dravid out when replays clearly showed the ball had nicked his pads and not the bat.

His counterpart Mark Benson did not refer Sourav Ganguly's controversial catch taken by Michael Clarke to the third umpire. Amazingly he decided to ask the players and Aussie captain Ricky Ponting nodded that Clarke had taken the catch upon which Mr Benson raised his finger.

As if this was not enough, after a 6 hour hearing, Proctor decided to ban Harbhajan on hearsay evidence presented by Matthew Hayden and Michael Clarke. Proctor had made it clear that the on-field umpires have heard nothing.

India ultimately lost the Test by 122 runs, but skipper Kumble refused to blame his side saying only one team played in the spirit of the game. What was a great Test cricket-wise was marred by poor umpiring. Proctor's decision made the outcome even more worse.

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1. 08-01-2008 05:04

australian cricketers will use the rule book wherever possible to win a match,regardless if it promotes bad sportsmanship. not walking is one of the rules, in '81-the under arm role down the pitch! i wonder if ponting would've used this tactic if it was still legal?

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2. 08-01-2008 05:43

That's right eddie, Indians walk every time. We never dispute the umpire's decision, only that match referee

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3. 08-01-2008 08:26

1 - Harbahjan Singh racially vilified Symonds by calling him a monkey. Racism is not acceptable in sport. He was banned for a few games. Get the hell over it. Its his own stupid fault.
2 - Umpires can some times make mistakes. Its part of the game of cricket and human falliability. Just because the decision didn't go your way you want to cancel the tour? Talk about a pack of bad sports. We won. You lost. Get over it. Its just a game.

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4. 08-01-2008 09:16

Hi Brett,
You say that you won ?
How did you win the test.
The First innigs centurion Symonds has been let go 3 times in an innings that has saved the match for Australia.
Imagine what would have been the fate if Symonds was given out rightly the first time.
You talk about game man ship, where the Australian players grounds the catch and the Capatin says that the batsman is out.
And the batsman still walks, respecting the game man ship.

To create stress and kill the momentum of the Indian Team, they charge a player with Racism and an offical imposes ban without any evidence. You want us to buy that as well and continue playing with you ? ? ?

We all come from a country with great culture and heritage. We are taught to respect guests and others... no matter who they are. And you are trying to teach us ? ? ? ?

Keep watching us dude, we shall pay back every thing that we were given earlier.

Keep watching ! ! !

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5. 08-01-2008 10:23

It was a simply match-fixing affair between umpires and australia. They badly wanted to show their dominance. Probably if a probe is ordered we may see a lot of money has been trasferred between australian and umpires. It is not India, it is all the visiting teams they get the same treatment from Austraila when they tour Australia. See the history the points will be clear. Look back at times whoom they fear they put all of them in controversy. It started with MuraliDharan (in Australia Only). The intention is clear - make them fume over something and divert them from pure cricket and we will win. That's a shame to the sportsmanship.

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