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Team India to lodge protest against umpiring

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Posted online: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 1929 hrs IST

Mumbai, January 2:: The Indian team is to lodge a protest against the poor umpiring on the opening day of the second cricket Test at Sydney which enabled Australia to recover strongly.

Taking strong exception to some of the umpiring errors during the match, the BCCI has asked the team management to lodge an official protest with ICC Match Referee Mike Procter.

"We have asked our team management to lodge a protest to the ICC match referee against the wrong umpiring decisions made today by Steve Bucknor. The wrong decisions made by Bucknor have been commented upon by all cricketers and analysts alike," BCCI Vice-President Rajiv Shukla said.

"I am sure the International Cricket Council will be monitoring the matter in Dubai and take appropriate actions," Shukla said.

Australian batsman Andrew Symonds was caught by S Dhoni off Ishant Sharma when on 30 but to the horror of the Indian team, Bucknor decided he was not out. Symonds went on to score an unbeaten 137 to spearhead a great recovery after the hosts were tottering at 134 for six at one stage.

Symonds was also given another 'life' by Third Umpire Bruce Oxenford who ruled him not out when he was stumped by Dhoni off Anil Kumble a little later.

Earlier, Australian skipper Ricky Ponting too was lucky to escape a caught behind appeal when on 17 before going on to complete a half century. Mark Benson was the umpire who did not uphold the confident appeal.

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Need Eye donation To Steve Bucknor.
by Nikhil Badgujar on 2008-01-07 16:21:50.537401+05:30
Some one should donate eyes to Mr. Steve Bucknor.He should get rewarded
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Criket Fox
by ishani on 2008-01-07 15:48:21.776704+05:30
australian cricket players big cheating foxes,,, shame!!!! shame...
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Real Winners are INDIA!
by DKS on 2008-01-07 01:00:09.563789+05:30
I think that the umpiring was disastratous and very poor and india should have won, aussies won because they cheated...which does not count really. We all know who the true winners are - INDIA of course! Aussies have such bad sportsmanship...it has been shown time and time again especially with that Ricky Ponting..who thinks he is clever by manipulating the umpires...however has cricket got to this stage. What should happen is that they should replay the last match again without that Bucknor and Benson present (with new umpires) and see the result then. India have had a raw deal again....shame on you aussies for ruining cricket as a great sport.
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Australia's Win
by Aakash on 2008-01-06 23:45:31.757118+05:30
Australia will remain champions on paper ........ they can never match the great west Indies .. Even they win thousands of test matches there team's name will be most disrespected in years to come..they will never be remebered as champions !!
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Umpiring
by Julian on 2008-01-06 13:47:13.761603+05:30
Don't blame the umpires, blame the ICC for not allowing greater use of replay technology.It is crazy that I, watching at home, have better evidence of what happened than the umpire who makes the decisions. The human eye is simply not reliable enough and the replays prove this. They are available, so why not use them?The ICC need to show some courage and widen the use of the third umpire.
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cricket
by vishal on 2008-01-16 09:29:10.421483+05:30
yea we can blame the umpire because they are the ones to call for the third umpire... and well one of the umpires asked ricky ponting for if clark caught the ball!!! i mean how do u do that... u have technology use it!! that could have been a draw and that is truly dissapointing.
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