It is painful to note that at the end of the day, the Australian cricket team became the beneficiary of the utter lack of efficiency on the part of umpires who officiated in the second test match between India and Australia.Australia had the last laugh by scalping the wickets of both R.P.Singh and Ishant Sharma in the last two overs,the successful bowler being Clarke and in the end India was all out when it was chasing the target of 333 runs set by Australia on the fifth day and Australia won the test match.
But in the Indian second innings, Rahul Dravid was given out when he was on 38, caught behind even without any nick from his bat,the false and vociferous claims were made by both by the bowler,the arrogant player Symonds and the wicket Keeper, Gilchrist.Again the well settled batsman Saurav Ganguly was given out on 51, even when the catch was not taken cleanly.In fact in the replay it was clearly showed that the catch was floored in the process of catching and it was not cleanly taken.Captain Ponting raised his finger and it was followed by the umpire also.I doubt that there is any fair play is possible in Australia.
It seemed that the absolute cricket power of Australia got corrupted absolutely.It is better that no other test playing country should dare to go to Australia and play any match there.To such an extent their cricket supremacy has spoiled them and the team has become thoroughly spoiled especially on the fair play concept.They have mentally got addicted and in fact are suffering from some sort of addiction or illness or whatever you may call it.They are not truly sportive and sportsmanlike.Hence, no Indian need to rue anything about what happenned at Sydney.
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