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Aust beat India by 122 runs, take 2-0 lead

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Posted online: Sunday , January 06, 2008 at 1331 hrs IST

Sydney, January 6:: Umpiring blunders sent India hurtling to a shocking 122-run defeat in the high-voltage second cricket Test against Australia, who achieved a record-equalling 16th consecutive Test triumph in Sydney.

On a controversial fifth day's play, the Indians were left to chase a stiff target of 333 in 72 overs but horrendous umpiring and inept batting saw them being skittled out for 210 in 70.5 overs to give Australia an invincible 2-0 lead in the four-match series.

In the nerve-wracking final moments, it seemed India would manage a draw at 210 for seven before Michael Clarke produced a dream spell to take three wickets in a span of five balls to give his team a sensational victory.

The victory in this rivetting Test, marked by controversial umpiring decisions and a simmering race row, allows the home team to retain the Border-Gavaskar trophy.

The fifth and final day was sullied by some horrendous umpiring decisions and as has been the case so far, Australia had no reason to complaint while India found themselves at the receiving end of the goof-ups by Steve Bucknor and Mark Benson.

Although the Indians had reasons to be aggrieved with umpiring, the batting collapse was quite inexplicable as the fifth day SCG track did have something for the bowlers but was not unplayable for an experienced batting line-up.

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Match fixing
by Rakesh on 2008-01-06 22:23:44.88458+05:30
Australia is a good team. They do not have to cheat. Yes Ricky Pointing cheated. Ganguli's dismissal was wrong and Ponting cheated on that. On another occassion, Ponting caught a pad ball (no contact with bat) from Dhoni, he hit the ground and ball touched the the ground and he was still asking umpire to give Dhoni out. On Indian side, the seniors tried very hard to face off the pressure. Dravid was fighting very hard before being sacrificed by Bucknor. So was Ganguli. He really fought hard. In the first inning, umpires helped Australia by giving free life to quite a few players. But Indians fought very hard in first innings. Now the umpires decided to take diffrent approach and changed tactics. Now they attacked Indian batting side. It was India's test to win but for the umpires. I always wonder about match fixing and Umpires involvement in it. They can do more damage than a tainted player or two.
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Bad umpiring
by Sunil on 2008-01-06 20:47:46.29952+05:30
Yes there always will be few mistakes in cricket by umpires. How many times in the history or cricket have you seen the umpire asked the fielding team captain if the fielder caught the ball? It is like hiring fox to guard chickens. Bensen was not sure about Ganguly's catch then he looks at Ponting. Ponting says yes by raising his finger and Bensen says yes Out he is! after few seconds. Even one bad umpiring decision can turn the test around. Pressure is bound to build when you let the other team get away with all the non-sense. It is Indian mentality to blame our players. The pressure was unbareable. What you expect when 2 well set players Dravid and Ganguly were given out. I think team India did exceptionally well under these conditions. Yes, it will ruffle some feathers but fair is fair. Yes it was 11 vs. 13. You give Symonds not out at 30 he goes to score 163 and then you give out Bret Lee wrongfully, is it all balanced? Yeh right. Giving Dravid out increased tremendous pressure on rest of the players. Why did they not referred to Third umpire in contraversial cases when umpire was not sure? In the first inning, India scored more than 500 runs, it is the same team. It was the 12th and the 13th player.
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WE LOST IT
by Jujman on 2008-01-06 20:15:20.625026+05:30
Australia didi not win this test. INDIA LOST IT. No excuses. With the umpires winning would be hard. But a draw was easy. We always bat 2 down with Jaffer
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11 vs 13
by Pranit on 2008-01-06 18:33:40.947866+05:30
Its 11 vs 13. With 13 players any team can win any match. No wonder they are the best team in the world.
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It goes both ways
by Peter on 2008-01-06 18:28:04.342351+05:30
Sure Australia got the best of the umpiring but be fair it went both ways. Tendulkar was plumb lbw on 36, Ponting given out lbw after an inside edge, Brett Lee given lbw when well outside line, Dhoni given not out after ball hit his glove. These decisions were all incorrect and went in India's favour
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