Should the Indian Cricket Team go Home?

[ptc]

Wot Waldo said.
and
"In MY book the Aussies are just cheats at cricket and MY personal opinion of the team has reached an all time low."
It has caught up with them at last.

[Wood Borer]

Rich, spoilt, bad sport Indian players.

ICC putting money before the game.

Aussies sooking and dobbing being little goody goodies.

It wasn't just the Indian side that lost, it was international cricket.

I'll now treat cricket as I do AFL - as a joke and ignore it apart from celebrating whenever those 2 sports/corporates encounter problems.

Let's hope they all go broke and a new organisation takes their places so we can enjoy top level sport without emphasis on money and politics.

[bitingmidge]

These issues could all be solved you know, by allowing the crowd to have fun again.

Bring back racial taunts, bottled drinks, cameras, cut lunches, backpacks, mexican waves, beer snakes, and pretty much everything else.

If the ACB allowed the crowd to have fun, no one would give a bugger about a curry muncher calling a golliwog a monkey.

No one would care about crook decisions either, the umpires would get the shellacking they deserve at the time, and wouldn't make so many bad ones in a day for fear of genuine crowd retribution.

P

[LGS]

Remember Katich having a dummy spit while he was walking back to the pavilion in the Ashes loss. It was a bad decision but he still got fined.

Notice how there is no talk about Dravid's dummy spit..

I'm sick of them already.

In any event, the Indians are hopeless. How can a country of one billion not produce 11 decent or consistent players (at any sport for that matter).

What gets me is that this team were playing for a draw at best. A draw. They didn't cop 10 bad decisions in getting out for 200 odd runs again. They are just crap. Nothing new there.

Boban's right. Regardless of whether Symonds was out or not, the Indians were unable to bowl a ball that repeated the "out" until he reached well into his hundred. They were comprehensively beaten in Melbourne, could not maintain their wickets for 78 odd overs in Sydney, despite their much vaunted batting lineup and now, won't play unless they have a new umpire. I also wish they'd just flounder on home now.

Rob

[meansy_wood]

i am so over hearing about this at the moment but.. the indians should really get over it. theyre accusing the aus team of being bad sportpeople where as they are the ones that cant get over a few mistakes.. they should really listen to themselves as it is ONLY A GAME

now im satisfied

[Sebastiaan56]

I note that 70% of the ICCC's revenue is from India. As usual money talks

Sebastiaan

[Andy Mac]

These issues could all be solved you know, by allowing the crowd to have fun again.

Bring back racial taunts, bottled drinks, cameras, cut lunches, backpacks, mexican waves, beer snakes, and pretty much everything else.

If the ACB allowed the crowd to have fun, no one would give a bugger about a curry muncher calling a golliwog a monkey.

No one would care about crook decisions either, the umpires would get the shellacking they deserve at the time, and wouldn't make so many bad ones in a day for fear of genuine crowd retribution.

P

Now Peter, that's just being plain too sensible!

Cheers,

[SPIRIT]

l dont like cricket,,, l love it ,,ow yer

[Geoff Dean]

A very well written article:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=343765

[HappyHammer]

This seems to have disappeared and dont blame the media they only feed off the spectators.

A little naive but you're welcome to your opinion of course.

HH.

[NCArcher]

Andrew Simonds hit/nicked the ball and was caught. According to the rules, that is OUT. Andrew Simonds stayed at the crease even though he knew AND ADMITTED that he knew he was out - THAT is cheating!!!



More likely the Indians will be burning effigies of the Aussies or the umpires because the Indian loss may be due to the cheating or bad umpiring.

It is not now nor has it ever been up to the players to determine who is out. That is the job of the umpire. Get your facts straight. No rules were broken apart from the racial vilification rule.
You can call it bad sportsmanship or poor judgement or whatever but it is NOT cheating.

[Wood Borer]

All this commotion about the cricket has caused people in India to burn images of Aussies and to say nasty things about us.

I wonder what reception Indian Call centre pests will get over the next few months when calling Aussies as we are about to eat dinner.

[OLDPHART]

A litle publicity ,warranted or not,brings the crowds in,look at the attendances in Sydney,29.000,day1,29000,day2etc,etc,day 5 10,000.Long way short of bumper crowds at the time of year when Joe Public has time on his/her hands
If I were in Perth I would boycott the bl..dy test.
Trying to rip the public off as usual

[lesmeyer]

Gentlemen, and i use the term loosly
.......

The joy of cricket used to be in the good will and sportsmanship teams displayed to one another, the ovation given to clive lloyd springs to mind.


Astrid

I see that the very same Mr Clive Lloyd has stated that the ICC is a disgrace for replacing Steve Bucknor as Umpire for Perth. He is respected as a great sportsman and can be listened to. The message being that the Umpire's decision is final. If the cricketer shows dissent regarding an umpire's decision, he is usually fined. That is how it should be.
The Indians did not respect the Umpires decisions (good or bad). They have made a grave mistake by demanding a change of umpire for Perth. This just shows what a bunch of SORE LOSERS they are.
Les

[Poppa]

Not sure if I'm allowed to post links to youtube here or not, so I won't, but you might be interested to look at a video there of Harbhajan being clean bowled by Pietersen (England) in a one-dayer and not going. Yes, he was clean bowled, and still didn't walk. Not only that, you can clearly hear Harbhajan tell Pietersen to f-off. These are the actions of a gentleman cricketer I'm sure...