It does not appear that to anyone outside the Aussie team the strategy after tea was remotely sane. Why was something that was so obvious to one and all, missed by Ponting and his team? I wonder if they were busy planning the next book. I would have loved to listen in on Dhoni's and Bhajji's conversation in the middle when they saw White, Hussey and Clarke bowl instead of Johnson/Watson/Lee.
And what was White doing with the ball - peeling off something from it? If Bhajji had been doing the same... what would the reaction be?
PS: the number of books promoted by aussies this series almost exceeds the number of felicitations. Knowing how "felicitation friendly" India is, that is a not an easy task.
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- A female sports fan based in Chennai. Follow most sports (except boxing, wrestling and similar ones). Tried my hand at all the sports I watch, and am not very good at any of them :-) So the opinions/thoughts are strictly and unashamedly as a viewer/fan and not an expert. I also blog at ipl08
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You raise a valid point about the White episode.
If I remember correctly, Tendulkar was once charged with tampering the ball for doing something similar in SA.
He was banned for a couple of matches and a fine was imposed. The ban was later overturned, but the fine remained.
One of the columnist had commended the umpires for handling the White episode with common sense.
Apparently, a 'Whites' word was enough.
I have not read anything at all about the incident which is most odd.
subcontinent players: guilty until proven innocent.
rest of the world: innocent - always.
we 'the asians' too have been party to this discrimination...
thats why asad rauf when he gave not out to sehwag...clearly did not saw it as ponting disagreeing to his decision when he went on arguing with sehwag than him and hold up the play...
that aleem dar when he gave not out to kallis and then heard some good words of appreciation from flintoff didn't find any angle of objection...and hence not reported the incident...
here too dar didn't find it objectionable...enough to report...
and less said about ranjan madugule the better...
sp you are right - but I believe the sub continent umpires are trying to be fair and probably over compensating
We never knew that they were such book worms :).
bookworms :) I wonder if Saurav will come up with one, though he has said he may not have the patience for that.
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