Sachin Tendulkar Silences,Snubs & Tames The Aussie Bullies

 

A lot of thought went into the title. It’s probably not sensational, but I think it’s pretty appropriate. What’s important is,  India wins first final of the three commonwealth bank series.

The Australian Cricketers have been talking a lot of late and one must say they are getting better at it. Be it sledging or accusing opponent players of fabricated charges. They have been acting total losers. And today’s match proved just that. They are losers!!

Well, one might think I am talking a tad too soon. There are two more finals and Aussies could win both of them. So be it. I don’t really care. After doing all the talking they should be ashamed of losing the match. The Indian bunch have remained silent during the ODI series. Today they let their performance talk and snubbed the Aussie Bullies.

Sachin was splendid. He played with a level head and patiently. He took beamers from Lee (accidental mate ? ), verbal volleys from people around the stumps and yet came out triumphant. Rohit Sharma did well to keep him company and played equally well. Way to go India!! Now, lets win the next one too and teach the Aussies to keep their trap shut.

Also read:

Matthew Hayden - An Obnoxious Criminal Seed

Sachin Ton-dulkar - Century Making Machine ?

Indians stop the Aussie Bugger-lot, Whack Aussies at WACA in 4 days

India won the 3rd test at PERTH!! Wait now you need to stress upon two words there. WON!! and PERTH!! Australians were bragging about their pace attack and gunning for the 17th straight test victory..blah,blah,blah. But Indians have played 4 days of superb cricket and all credit goes to the Indian players. Shaun Tait (supposedly their tear away fast bowler who was more away than tear) looked sad and lost. His action looks suspect too I must say. Looks more like he is throwing a Javelin.

Now whether they win or lose the next test is immaterial. No one really cares. We stopped Ricky Ponting’s party!! He can never win 17 matches in a row ever again. (Actually if everything had gone to plan, I don’t think he would have even won the 16th. It took some really bad umpiring wait for it- from Ricky himself, to win the 16th match)

(pic: The Aussie Kangarro flat on its back and on the mat!!)

Can you believe no test team has beaten the Aussies in 5 years ? And the last team to beat them that too at Australia was India itself. I was sure as hell that the last match would get drawn. And India looked really demoralised after that and the whole Harbhajan Singh issue. India came out bravely by dropping Bhajji. Not because he is banned, but because this is the Perth track we are talking about. It needs real courage to pick someone who is in the eye of the storm. But it requires even more courage to drop that person. Way to go Kumble. Good captaincy.

The Aussies seem to be lost in sledging and appealing and all that. It’s been a while since they have been challenged and they buckled. Aussie cricket is going to see a new low soon. Ponting, Hayden and Gilchrist will be gone and I don’t see anyone filling their shoes. Clarke will do Pontings job I guess. (Not captaining, the rogue behaviour on field is what I meant.)

Regardless of what has happened and what will happen in Adelaide, India have done well and this is a moral victory for them.

P.S: I was going to call it the Aussie Juggernaut, but then this team really is a bugger lot. And the Indians certainly whacked the poop out of the Kangaroos.

Ponting to retire/hang up his boots ?

This just in!! Ponting is thinking about retiring. No one knows of-course. But remember whenever Ponting does retire, you read about it here first. 

 

(pic: Hung boots and a stinky pair of socks.)

Looks like Ricky Ponting has a lot to think about these days. The famous Australian batsman and captain who was recently in news for being a bad sport, has hardly done anything in this series so far. At-least not with his bat!! His on field antics have been better than ever and reliable sources report that Ponting has even been offered a career in Theatre. (Bret Lee has even been suggesting Bollywood, but warns Ponting that he will not be seen as a hero nor cast as one.)  Whether Ponting will take it is of-course remains to be seen, since he already has a lucrative career as an umpire when he does retire. He’s actually been rehearsing for that very job. (As witnessed by millions on TV in the Sydney test.) He is also heard to be becoming Bucknor’s close friend.

(Pic: A glum looking Ponting pondering over his future.)

Touted as the next successor to Sachin Tendulkar in current test match circuit, Ponting has hardly done anything in this series that warrants such comparisons. Ahem,..apart from the on field circus and KG kid boo-hoo complaining and all that. That he has done remarkably well.

Dismissed in both innings of the Perth test by nothing more than a kid (Ishant Sharma - age <20) who is just into test matches is a new low. (All credit to Sharma though. Way to go dude!!)

Ricky was dismissed 3 times out of 4 in the previous two matches of this series by none other than Harbhajan Singh. If I was Ishanth Sharma, I’d carry a voice recorder with me at all times. It is clear who the next racism allegation is going to be targeted against. Watch it Ishanth!! Before you know it, Ponting will claim you yelled ‘Howzzat’ and that it is considered racist in his province or wherever he hails from.

Ricky, you’ll retire when you retire. Just concentrate on your game for now. Fame is a lost cause you are fighting for.

Jumbo’s Day Out…

For all the people who don’t know already, Jumbo is the nick name of Anil Kumble (currently Indian Cricket Test Captain) who recently bagged his 600th Test Victim.

I am a day late with the post, as technically it was yesterday that Kumble got his 600th. (On the second day of the third test between India and Australia at Perth) Kumble is now only behind Mutthiah Muralitharan (723) and Shane Warne (708 and retired). Both legends of their own when it comes to spin bowling. He is also the leading Indian wicket taker in both forms of the game. (ODI’s too)

One of his other achievements is having taken all ten test wickets in an innings. (This was against Pakistan in Kotla - Delhi) Only one other player has achieved that feat in the history of International cricket. This inspite of not being the greatest turners of the ball.

Kumble’s Perfect Ten

Trivia:

• Kumble’s 600th test victim is Andrew Symonds.(Caught Dravid)
• Michael Vaughan was his 900th International wicket.
• Steve Harmison was his 500th Test victim. (LBW, under Dravid’s captaincy.)
• Simon Katich was his 400th Test victim. (Bowled, in Bngalore)
• His 28 caught and bowled is the highest by anyone.

Other Links:

A world record for Kumble

Umpires under the scanner again

Some News Channels were flashing the Sachin Tendulkar dismissal again and again and again today. I will have to say it was NOT OUT and even Ian Chappel agreed to it. Asad Rauf did make a mistake. But having said that, cut the umpires some slack. They are humans too and you just sacked the two umpires from the previous match. (Steve Bucknor and that other bloke who asked Ricky Ponting for his take on a dismissal-Marc Benson.)

The Raging Technology Debate:

This is one debate I wouldn’t like to take a stand on. Whether to use technology for umpiring decisions is a big decision.

The things that go in favour of implementing technology to a greater extent are:

• More and more bad decisions are coming to the fore because of the technology that the commentators use.
• Software like Hawk-eye use sophisticated missile ballistics to make decisions.
• When you have it, you might as well use it.
• Sometimes one bad decision can turn a game around completely. (Which is why people were incensed the last match.)

Things that go against implementing technology completely include:

• Umpires will be mere on-field spectators then as they would not have any role to play.
• The tradition of the game will take a hit. (Some people are very touchy about such things.)
• The new technology no matter how good is not always 100 % correct.

It’s hard to say. But the way it’s all going and what with good umpires becoming too old (Bucknor, take my advice and retire.) and not many good umpires coming up the ranks, technology is going to butt in.

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Punter a proponent of ‘Turn the volume down policy’

 

(pic: the stump mic is supposed to be between two stumps)

This is an outdated issue now. The issue of stump camera’s mic volume being turned down. However in recent light of the racism controversies, one only wonders why the ’skipper’ of the Australian team wanted some time back that the volume of the stump mic be turned down.

I think I know why. Because then the world would be aware of the dirty Australian sledging. Also they cannot claim stuff like they did against ‘Bhajji’ if the stump mics were on. I mean there would be solid evidence. Then Symonds cannot say, “He called me a monkey butt. I am sensitive to these kind of things” . (P.S: F**k off, f**ker and associated terminology are allowed though.)

Here’s more on the ‘Turn the volume down’ issue:

Peter Moores has questioned the role of the stump microphone to relay information from the field to television screens after the confrontational second npower Test between England and India. The England head coach and team director also tried to draw a line under the jellybean incident, saying: “It had no meaning whatsoever.”

That was from India’s tour of England.

Moores fails to silence debate with attack on TV intrusion

“The volume of the stump microphone has been a consideration. There have to be some things left on the field to be fair to the player so that he can play the game without worrying that everything he says will be relayed.”

You got to be kidding me!!

An ICC regulation states: “The stump microphone must be off except when the batsman is taking guard at the start of his innings, as the bowler commences his run-up until the ball is hit or passes the bat and as the fielder launches his return throw until the ball reaches the keeper’s gloves, the fielder at the bowler’s end, or hits the stumps.”

Why on earth ? So that Aussies and English can get away with whatever they say and then can blame the Indian’s ? ICC stop siding with ‘White’ teams.

The nonsense served up by Prior and others would not be allowed on the tennis court. It would not be allowed on the golf course. It is not allowed in American Football, basketball or baseball.It would even bring a warning from the referee in the boxing ring.For some unknown reason cricket tolerates what these other sports do not. It is time the umpires were allowed, and encouraged, to stamp it out. - said a comment

Exactly. ICC time to think for a change. The ball is in your court now.

Read more about unfair Cricket rules and happenings here:

Double talkin jive..

Third World Advice 

‘Aussie sledging absolutely unbelievable’

 

(pic: Ponting has his balls upset by the bowler. Oops, I meant bails.)

My point is, Ponting said when asked about the microphone issue that ‘it should not be allowed’ or something on those lines. Mr.Ponting, it would have sorted out the racism issues you guys are cooking up. Turns out you are culinary experts apart from being bad bullish cricketers.

More on the Harbhajan Singh , Hogg Controversy…

 

(pic: The turbanotor in merrier times)

I have been following the match both on Television and News Channels. From what I saw, Symonds was talking non stop and Harbhajan was just speaking back. Nothing wrong at all. You guys like only monologues in Australia ? C’mon man be a sport, ‘Punch Dialogue’ and all. The fact is that Aussies are chickens and are afraid of playing Bhajji and wanted to dent his psyche. It was all a pre-planned set up for all you know. Maybe this was the ‘plans and preparations’ they were talking about in press conferences.

Does Symonds look like a saint ? (I do not know how saints in Australia look like. We have a different culture here.) Why is he accusing people here ? 

Here is what a few articles are saying on-line recently:

At 27, bad boy Harbhajan risks turning into India’s boor - The Sidney Morning Herald

Wait, Harbhajan is not a bad boy. He is a hero in my eyes. You call Bhajji a bad boy and Symonds a hero ? Bhajji has dismissed Ponting on so many occasions that Ponting’s wife tells me, that he had sleepless nights for well over an year. (Well you cannot prove this, but then you cannot prove that Harbhajan said anything racist either.)

This is yet another .au site. They talk about Bhajji’s personal life. They have taken quotes of what people said about Bhajji in some other interview and used it conveniently now. Yet another way to get to him mentally. Stick to his on field performances losers. And as for Bhajji, pay no heed to these losers.

Harbhajan denies allegation, team upset with complaint

Now this is an Indian site and does more justice to the story.

Local media quoted unnamed Aussie players as saying Harbhajan had pushed Lee, and it all started then. Nothing of the sort was seen on TV, and the Indian camp denied the charge.

Hey Aussies, these days matches are televised. You cannot get away claiming whatever you imagine. Did ICC guys do a cope test on these buggers ? They must have been high when they leveled charges.

This is what Chetan Chauhan had to say:

“If he did say anything at all, it would have been in the heat of the moment, in retaliation for continuous aggravation and extreme provocation by some of the Australian players”

Absolutely correct. When you have 11 men surrounding you and taunting you and poking fun at you, you simply have to retaliate.

Sydney Test: Sledgers complain against sledging and racism!

Totally apt title. Except is should have been ‘Sledgers cry about Sledging and racism.’

Australians are playing mind games : Chauhan  

“It is just that in the past the retaliation had not come from the Indians. But now the Indian boys have started answering back and may be that is the reason why they are a bit surprised and shocked”

Surprised and shocked and acting like total losers.

(pic: Hogg seems to be hogging the limelight for the wrong reasons. Also he seems paralytic when he contorts his mouth like that. )

Here is what I read about Hogg:

India lodge complaint against Hogg

Indian’s, you guys are stupid man. I mean I know you wanted to show good sportsmanship, but if Hogg called you names, you should have complained right on time and walked off the field too.

BCCI lodges complaint against Hogg 

While Harbhajan is contemplating his near future and being sad and low, Hogg probably after having won the match took one of the Indians’ comments to f**k off a little too literally.   Nice one Hogg. Stay at it. Oh, I meant the bowling.  

Bhajji, we all saw that you were down when you came out to bat. Ban or no ban, be strong man. You will get to rape the Aussie batting line up yet again. Just concentrate on that for now. Be strong…

Symonds-does calling you a donkey upset you as well?

 

(pic: Symonds feeling electric ? )

Disclaimer:The word Donkey is not meant as racist. If symonds has an inferiority complex and feels sub-human by being called a donkey, he is welcome to come home and knock my door and tell me so. Its another thing I won’t let him inside my house, but maybe I will call him other non-racist names next time around. I have plenty of names and I have an encyclopedia. (Ever heard of that Psycho ? Oops, I meant Symo.)

As docile as we are, we Indians hate to be provoked!! Indian tempers are on the rise. Hey symmo, you needed three lives to get to a hundred. Are you and Bucknor more than just buddies ?

Harbhajan Singh being banned is ridiculous. I’ve already covered this in my earlier post. Indians should botcott the tour and come back. Cricket Australia, up yours!! All cricket playing nations should boycott Australia.

Here’s a link to the article by ‘The Australian’

Harbhajan ‘broke a deal’ on abuse

I am going to quote a few things form the article and come up with counter arguments.

Australia’s only black player, Symonds was subjected to racial abuse in the form of monkey chants during the final three games of the one-day series in India, even though Indian officials attempted to deny it.

False. He or anyone else for that matter were not subjected to any kind of abuse during any of the matches in the series. And symonds is black ? Must have a decent plastic surgeon. (Dude are you in touch with Michael Jackson ? )

During the last one-day match in Mumbai, on the field Harbhajan called Symonds a monkey.

I don’t know for sure if Harbhajan called Symonds a monkey. I don’t know how it works in Australia. But here in India, even LKG students call each other monkey. I’m sure you have better ways to insult each other in Australia when you are in KG. Shows on field man.

An upset Symonds reported the incident to Australia’s officials following the match and attempted to defuse it. The Queenslander knocked on India’s team dressing-room door and asked to speak to Harbhajan.

After explaining how he felt about the term, which infers someone is sub-human, Harbhajan said he was sorry and agreed not to use it again.

Symonds was upset ? He is capable of being upset ? That’s news to me.  Should give credit to ‘The Australian’ for reporting news.
Two more things. Symonds went and explained that it hurts ? I am touched man. But you on field banter with Indians isn’t very pleasing to them either. Now dude if you want us to consider how you feel about certain words, we will give you a list of words as well. Take the English dictionary. And just shut the f**k up!! (ICC here, that’s the list of words Aussies cannot use on field. No words from the English Dictionary. Does that sound ridiculous ? So does your scheme of submitting a list of offensive words.)

If at all Harbhajan Singh apologised, it shows how considerate he was. But I am pissed with the Indians. How the hell did you allow that ‘Rascala’ to enter your dressing room. Guys stop being nice to hooligans. It’s our one inherent fault- being nice. But why did Harbhajan ever agree to anything ? He should have asked him to submit a written statement saying that “monkey upsets me. So please don’t call me that. Please, I really don’t want to cry on field”.

Another said: “The word monkey was used because he knows that it upsets Symonds.”

Dudes, you sledge all the teams knowing perfectly well that it upsets them. Why cry foul now ?

Here’s another article meant to play with Kumble’s psyche:

Kumble’s Bodyline bouncer

I know Australians will say, hey a couple of decisions man. Chill!! Dude, the bloody umpires gave ‘Dravid’ out man. He would single handedly have faced bloody 50 overs. Then Ganguly too. That’s just way too much.

Here is more from this article:

Kumble claimed he would also review an agreement with rival captain Ponting to take a fieldsman’s word on catches after Michael Clarke took a low chance off Sourav Ganguly at second slip and the former skipper refused to leave until given out twice by umpire Benson.

Man why did you even need to agree with that hooligan on issues like this. This guy (Punter or whatever) has no integrity whetever. They(Australians) are simply crooks, who will do anything to win a match.

And Ponting, who described the feeling of victory as one of the best he had felt on a cricket field, later took great exception to questions about a catch he took and unsuccessfully appealed for which was turned down.

“If you’re actually questioning my integrity in the game you shouldn’t be standing there,” Ponting said to an Indian journalist.

“With what I did in the first innings, does that explain the way I play the game?”

Loser f***er. It totally justifies the way you play your game. You cheat. Once a cheater always a cheater. Don’t tell me you have reformed and stuff. And why shouldn’t the journalist be standing there ? He’s doing his job atleast with integrity, unlike you bunch of crooks.

It also seems that Brad Hogg has racially abused Indian players.

P.S: To all you burly Aussies who cry foul at the mention of any word and go ‘Racist’ Racist’ and then go home and cry, ‘Rascala’ is not racist. If Symonds feels upset by it, he can report me to ICC and cry me a river.  Go hug your mommy Symo boy. (mommy. I hope you read the word clearly. It says mommy and not monkey. Are you educated by the way ? )

The Aussie Ploy Again…

Disclaimer: In view that racism can create heated sentimental issues, the writer hereby declares that he is against all forms of racism and stands for equality of all races.  

Australia is the World Champion in cricket. Then why is it that they are acting like losers currently ?

News is that Harbhajan Singh has been accused of Racially Accusing ‘Andrew Symonds’. Symonds, here is a word of advice for you - Stop the banter and get down to playing cricket. Even the monkeys seem to be bored of it. Seriously!!  

The fact of the matter is, Symonds drew ‘Bhajji’ into an argument because the latter had made a 50 of the Australian bowling. Guys (Australians) work on the bowling rather than the taunting. What is poor ‘Bhajji’ to do when 11 of the Australian players randomly chat something and try and distract him ? There was nothing wrong in talking back at all. Though if it was indeed racist, it’s not such a cool thing to do. But having said that, I doubt if ‘Bhajji’ said anything racist at all. Looks like Symo couldn’t take even a bit of taunting. Dude, if you can’t take it and need reinforcements from your team to taunt a single player, you might as well tape your mouth with a adhesive sticker or go cry to mama.

 

What do I think of the incident ? Harbhajan looked clearly appalled and one feels sorry for him. Symonds didn’t look even a bit like he was offended. They are just twisting and turning facts to suit their own needs. If the Aussies are able to prove that it was indeed racial taunts, then ‘Bhajji’ should be banned. Having said that ‘Tendulkar’ was out there in the middle. He will have to agree to the claims that the ‘Aussie’ bunch make. If Tendulkar feels that they are indeed blowing it out of proportion, then a few Australians need to be banned. If inspite of Tendulkar’s testimony, Bhajji is charged and banned, then we should boycott this tour and all future tours to Australia. 

Another interesting thing is can a ‘colored’ person racially abuse another ‘colored’ person. Don’t you see/hear the word ‘nigga’ , ‘nigger’ used in rap songs and Hollywood movies by ‘colored’ people. 

Lets take a look at couple of earlier pictures to judge who is taunting whom:

(You have almost the entire Aussie team surrounding Bhajji and it looks like they are having a merry time in making fun of him.)

(Symonds definitely looks like he has been racially abused in this picture. What makes one wonder is why he is happy about it ? Wierd eh ? Not to mention where his left hand is  [:P]  Sicko!!) (P.S: This is the series in India. But Symonds had accused Srisanth and Bhajji even back then.) 

Here are links to a few articles:

Harbhajan Singh faces Test ban for ‘racist slur’ 

Symonds accuses Harbhajan of racial abuse

you can read angry reactions from Indian fans on the above site.

Harbhajan summoned for ICC hearing

Harbhajan hearing postponed

Australians gun for Harbhajan Singh

Harbhajan in racism row

On a concluding note I would like to say that, if Symonds keeps falsely accusing people, he should be served out a life ban. Enna Rascala, mind it!!