The Indian cricket team"s tour of Australia was today put on virtual hold by BCCI which is demanding revocation of the three-Test ban on off-spinner Harbhajan Singh and the removal of West Indian umpire Steve Bucknor for the remainder of the series.
A day after ICC match refereee Mike Procter slapped the ban on the charge of racially abusing Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds by calling him a “a monkey", the BCCI after considering various options including pulling out of the series reacted angrily and directed the Indian team to stay put in Sydney.
Raising the stakes, a furious BCCI filed an appeal with the ICC against the ban and asked the Indian team not to go to Canberra where a two-day practice match is scheduled from Thursday as part of pressure tactics to get its case heard.
Calling the ban “unfair and unacceptable", an emergency meeting of the Board decided to fight out the issue with the Australians and the umpires who had done India in in the second Test which went in favour of the home team.
Arun Jaitley, a senior Board office-bearer and a well-known lawyer, filed the appeal with the international body within 24 hours of the decision as required under rules.
The absence of any incriminating audio evidence, the match referee Mike Procter ruling Harbhajan Singh three test ban is a “blatantly false" and an “unfair slur".India Cricket test series and one Twenty-20 cricket tour Australia has been called off.Reasons attributed for the suspension of this prestigious tour are the way in which the entire episode of cricketing events has taken place in which right from the ICC and the captains with their fields men at the test ground along with erratic umpires all played their innings of authority rather than supporting the playing conditions with sportsman spirit of the game.Hooliganism of cricket is visible from the moment the Ricky Pointing team receives the world-Cup from the BCCI chief plus Cabinet Minister with their arrogance.Game of cricket which binds the nation has been used as rostrum of racial abuse and opened up the pandemonium of racial discrimination.The wrong decisions were to be ably tackled by the two captains and the team captain involves himself in the wrong judgments too keen to win rather than to give good cricket to the cricket lovers.
Ponting explains the Making laws with two captains does not mean taking advantage of an issue.Meaningful exercise is done for each side gets justice and honor and laws are not made to qualify or meet for one side end.One hundred cameras of global electronic TV channels are focusing on the players and the players making false allegations will not go free.
The umpiring of the two test was absolutely unworthy of International standards and even the third Umpire proved a fatal in its approach to give judgment which is the mockery of the system eventually lead us to think that there is a nexus game plan to demoralize the opponent team with peoples sitting in benches.Could an investigation lead to some ulterior motives as losing or winning is not big preposition unless lust of desire remains in hybrid state.
High time for team India to be back and their demand to revoke suspension of Harbhajan and the erring umpires must be expelled at all cost of cricket lovers.Players involved in making the mockery of decisions must be dealt firmly and respective board must sack them for the good of the cricket. Two great nations must show the world that the game of cricket is played not by arrogance or childish approach but with International standards of cricketing nations with actions and gesture both on and off the field.
Australia should immediately sack its arrogant and abrasive captain Ricky Ponting and it"s a surprise that India has not called off the tour and gone back home, said an aghast Peter Roebuck.
Lambasting the members of the Australian side for their rude behavior, Roebuck, the former Somerset captain who is based in Sydney, singled out Ponting and said the captain must be sacked.
“If Cricket Australia cares a fig for the tattered reputation of our national team in our national sport, it will not for a moment longer tolerate the sort of arrogant and abrasive conduct seen from the captain and his senior players over the past few days," said the furious former cricketer, also one of the best cricket writers of his era.
“Beyond comparison it was the ugliest performance put up by an Australian side for 20 years," he wrote in his column for ‘Sydney Morning Herald".
“The only surprising part of it is that the Indians have not packed their bags and gone home. There is no justice for them in this country, nor any manners," he observed.
He said the lack of sportsmanship among the Australians hurt their young fans and former players alike.
“Pained past players rang to express their disgust. It was a wretched and ill-mannered display and not to be endured from any side, let alone an international outfit representing a proud sporting nation," Roebuck wrote.
According to him, Ponting and his men had embarrassed Australia through their triumph in the spiteful second Test.
“The notion that Ponting can hereafter take the Australian team to India is preposterous. He has shown not the slightest interest in the well-being of the game… not a single mark of respect for his accomplished and widely admired opponents."
He was no less harsh on the hosts for targeting Harbhajan Singh, who has been slapped a three-match ban for racially abusing Andrew Symonds, a charge the player and his team have vociferously refuted.
“Harbhajan Singh can be an irritating young man but he is head of a family and responsible for raising nine people. And all the Australian elders want to do is to hunt him from the game.”
“Australian fields men fire insults from the corners of their mouths, an intemperate Sikh warrior overreacts and his rudeness is seized upon. It might impress barrack room lawyers," he said.
“In the past few days, Ponting has presided over a performance that dragged the game into the pits. He turned a group of professional cricketers into a pack of wild dogs."
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