Monday, January 7, 2008

Aussie World Champs????



Scene 1
Gilly: How is that???
Bucknor:He Appealed.That must definitely be out!!!
Scene 2
Pup catches one on the bounce and roll overs only to ground it again.He is still shameless enough to appeal for a catch.
Benson(Obviously dozing):What the??is it out???
Punter:Yup!!i say its out!!!
Benson:That`s it!!!its out!!

No,This is not a scene from some cricket cartoon but was the scene at Sydney Cricket Ground.Except for the fact cartoons named Mark Benson(Best ICC Panel Umpire 2007) and Steve Bucknor(of 12oTests Fame) were in the middle of the whole Drama.It was the wannabe Indians vis-a-vis the "Mighty" Aussies where the latter were on their own Turf.But the Indians were screwed of probably 6 wickets on the first day when they literally had the Aussies on the mat.
Then to rub salt on their wounds ,the Indians ran into a couple of umpires with frozen index fingers which they kept waving in the air at the slightest of the appeals from the Aussies."If Mark Benson was to umpire like this in Indian Gully-cricket ,he would surely have got whacked" was the Dil-Se opinion of a senior commentator and ex-Indian captain.Worse the Aussies sensing the opportunity , kept appealing in coordinated symphony only strike gold each time. Everytime the bal beat the bat they went up like they were standing bare footed on broken glass and very soon the umpires were at it again sticking up their fingers at the slightest half chance the Aussies thought they had.Before the series , Ponting made tall claims of the Aussie way of cricket , But in Sydney we got to see how the beer-toting idiots from the land of kangaroos can turn absolutely shameless in their quest to remain the "Juggernaut in International cricket".
Time and again we are reminded of how the Aussies want to win either by hook or crook.Be it the Underarm Ball by Chappell or Mcgrath taunting the in-form Sarwan only to get a back a taste of his own medicine or calling the greatest spin bowler of our time -Muttiah Muralitharan a "Chucker" after their batsmen were bamboozled by Murali magic.But recently this has turned into a obsession and Aussies spit at, abuse ,taunt and tease batsmen in the middle so that they could get them make a fatal mistake. The same was on the cards on Friday when Andrew "The Monkey" Symonds repeatedly taunted Harbhajan Singh while the latter was in the middle batting with Da Vinci of Cricket.Bhajji blew his cool and walked towards Symonds and exchanged a few "Pleasantries' with him only to realise later that he has been summoned by the Referee for Racial Abuse that probably never even happened in the first place. The culprit - a certain gentleman leading the Aussies who couldnt land his wild heaves which he calls "his strokes" against Bhajji and decided that this was the best opportunity he would get to take out his nemesis.This row does bring back to memory the Lehmann episode were the burly Southpaw had some really interesting things to say about Murali`s Skin colour.
If this what being the world champions means i am much better off rooting for a team that tried and tried but was ultimately screwed by incompetent umpiring and cheating champs.
Hopefully the in International Cricketing Council in all sound mind and body should be packing off the two idiots responsible for the whole carnage to their rightful jobs of picking the beer cans off the stands after the day`s play.

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