Fans Call Cheteshwar Pujara "Cheater" For Escaping Dismissal During Ranji Trophy Semi-final

[jusarrived]

17 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Gilly started doing only after certain point. Lara was always doing that.

Dint Gilly famously decided not to walk in Sydney test ? 

[cowboysfan]

wtf? how is it a players fault for bad umpiring? i am really dissaponited in the bangalore Crowd,they should all apologize to Che.

[vvvslaxman]

1 hour ago, jusarrived said:

Dint Gilly famously decided not to walk in Sydney test ? 

yes. There is a myth that he was always a walker. He was selective. 

[kirkutfan]

4 hours ago, Straight Drive said:

Bad luck  getting negated by good luck  is not the right way to decision making or umpiring. DRS should be used to avoid partiality and umpiring errors.

Agree with you on DRS part. Do not agree on the “walking” part, unless the fielding side is also committed to calling back a batsman if they know he was wrongly given out. The honors system should be consistent all round.

[vvvslaxman]

5 minutes ago, Kannadiga said:

That doesn't mask that he tried to take advantage of umpire's incompetence and refused to walk, not once but twice in the same match. 

 

The crowd rightly called him so.  

 

In a way, he is a cheat. 

 

 

So is Dravid, Tendulkar, Agarwal every goddamn guy who never walked then.There are times we hear sound but there is no spike visible. 

[diehardpacer]

10 hours ago, Cricketics said:

Pointnis that when umpire gets wrong. We call umpire out. Here umpire was wrong and batsman too, so why not call batsman out too.

 

Its fair. No one is hanging Pujara or pushing him of the clip. People hears about this incident and just pointed out that Pujara wasn’t right.

 

 

Thats it, nothing to be defensive about this. Many top players have done this and will continue to do do.

 

But ome shouldn’t come out defendinfnplayer that he is a priest or something.

 

Pujara was wrong, umpire was wronf and Crowd reaction was the worst who lost it.

 

Simple as that. Now no one needs to defend anyone.

 

I disagree.I don't see a need to blame umpires here.Umpires will always get some decisions wrong.Even Mayank Agarwal was out & he was given not out.Why didn't he walk off?Infact I am happy he didn't walk off.Batsmen have every right to stay without feeling any guilt.Batsman have no clue if the bowler bowled a no ball.They won't be called back after walking off.Disobeying the umpires decisions in these cases will make the batsman look like a fool & his own team will question his ethics at that time.This has always been a bullying tactic by fielding teams.The Aussie team & crowd pulled the same non sense with the Stuart Broad is a cheater thing,which was laughable.

The only reason you guys are complaining because you can't digest the fact that a northie team won on your soil.

Rayudu didn't walk off in 2nd game vs NZ after getting caught by keeper.May be you guys should start questioning his ethics.That would do some good to team's chances in WC.

My verdict: Pujara did nothing wrong.Umpires have a thankless job.Crowd is filled with regionalist whiners.

 

Edited January 29, 2019 by diehardpacer

[diehardpacer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buU3VTSrIkA

Harsha Bhogle's analysis of this incident is spot on.

Edited January 29, 2019 by diehardpacer

[vvvslaxman]

31 minutes ago, Kannadiga said:

Being a senior member, expected better from him when playing infront of youngsters. 

 

I am not too fussed about it. He cheated and rightly gets called out. No point in crying about it by his fan base. 

This is personal preference. Nobody needs to tell you what to do when you edge one. You could walk or stay. Rahane got the rough end of the stick 3, 4 times  during his overseas trips. Next time when umpire doesn't give you don't expect him to walk. It will even out.

[ShoonyaSifar]

Well deserved thrashing for this group of sore losers. Most amusing to see Vinay Kumar make gestures to the umpire, he himself refused to walk in QF vs Rajasthan and went onto score match win 83*. So karma does play a role.

 

BTW 2014-15 Ranji final, Karnataka won due to horrible umpiring. No one from Karnataka had a problem at that time. In the end it evens out.

[ShoonyaSifar]

37 minutes ago, Kannadiga said:

Being a senior member, expected better from him when playing infront of youngsters. 

 

I am not too fussed about it. He cheated and rightly gets called out. No point in crying about it by his fan base. 

The only ones crying have been your namesakes from Karnataka, thousands of them on social media acting like sore losers and complete idiots. 

[vvvslaxman]

1 minute ago, Kannadiga said:

If you have edged one, then you should walk away. It's simple as that. Respect the game and the opponents. What's the point of cheating the system and later crying about it when being called out by the fans? 

 

He cheated and thought he could get away. 

 

Is this something that you want to teach young kids? 

 

Karnatka team should practice what they preach. In the past they got away with lot of umpiring errors. If they can't practice they should not preach.

[Tattieboy]

To the holier than thou on this topic , when you have faced a fast bowler and nicked it onto your pads and been given out and the bowler tells you to F off just F off and the captain says No Way am I reversing it then you decide that next time you nick it that you will wait on umpires decision ....over a career it balances it's self out . 

It's not cheating if that's the way you play everytime , what is cheating is if you are a walker and known to be a walker but in a situation where the result depends on a decision and you decide this time to not walk . These players are detested !!

[Clarke]

For fecks sake, its not even actual "cheating" when it doesn't go against the rules of the game. Tampering the ball is cheating, going by umpire's decision isn't. At best, one could term it unsaintly, i don't think its even unethical.

[ShoonyaSifar]

30 minutes ago, Kannadiga said:

The sore losers are those who are defending his actions here 

 

And Pujara comes across as a desperate guy. 

Aww don't be so hurt. It happens. This is not the last time Ranji trophy is being played.

 

Can totally understand your frustration though. First Kumble got booted out, Karnataka fans prayed the team fails and Shastri-Kohli get booted out, that did not happen and now your team gets knocked out in Semis despite having  'so many players who should instead have been in NZ'. On top of that Hardik flew back to NZ, Rahul left to play for Ind A. What a terrible week it has been for you guys.

[ShoonyaSifar]

25 minutes ago, Kannadiga said:

Two wrongs doesn't make it right. And you need to have better standards if you are playing for Indian team 

 

I hope B'lore fans will keep reminding him of this just for the lulz. 

And I hope Bangalore does not get to host a single international match for next few years. Will be fun. Such boorish stupid set of sore losers calling themselves as fans do not deserve to see the national side play in their city.

[ShoonyaSifar]

Stop crying dude. Cheer for KL playing for India A.

[ShoonyaSifar]

7 minutes ago, Kannadiga said:

Ban one of the biggest markets in India? 

 

Anyways, B'lore fans shouldn't give two phucks about that. They should carry on however they feel right. 

Doesn't matter. You disrespect an Indian legend, you lose right to host games. Simple as that.

 

Am really surprised with the total silence of Kumble, Dravid, Srinath at such a grave insult of an Indian legend. Will only further those lunatics. This time it was Pujara, next they will abuse Kohli (which many do for insulting Kumble).

[ShoonyaSifar]

8 minutes ago, Kannadiga said:

http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/25869947/lack-drs-focus-cheteshwar-pujara-rides-luck-ranji-semi-final

Good to see more mature response from Yere Goud and Manish Pandey

 

Yere Goud

Goud didn't appear to hold issue with Pujara not having walked. "It is left on the individual," he said. "Because sometimes players get bad decisions, generally they don't walk. That has been the case in most of the domestic matches we've seen."

 

Manish Pandey

 

Karnataka captain Manish Pandey mentioned the umpiring obliquely, telling the host broadcaster after the game, "Unfortunately, a couple of decisions went against us, maybe a couple of performances would have made a difference today."

 

Players know such decisions always even out. They know Vinay Kumar did not walk in QFs and played a match winning knock. They also know they benefited from such decisions in 2014-15 Ranji finals vs Mumbai. Contrast that with the lunatic fans and their boorish behaviour at the ground and on social media.

 

 

[CoverDrive]

Pujara did what most other cricketers would do. Both his desire to win and the crowd passion here shows that Ranji is being passionately contested and that is a good thing. Focus should be on poor umpiring and lack of DRS in these games.

 

All of us would have agreed with Pujara if this happened vs. Australia. You can respect a player for walking but not walking is not cheating. It is what everyone does to get their team to win.

 

 

[ShoonyaSifar]

6 minutes ago, CoverDrive said:

Pujara did what most other cricketers would do. Both his desire to win and the crowd passion here shows that Ranji is being passionately contested and that is a good thing. Focus should be on poor umpiring and lack of DRS in these games.

 

All of us would have agreed with Pujara if this happened vs. Australia. You can respect a player for walking but not walking is not cheating. It is what everyone does to get their team to win.

 

 

I would have got some sympathy for Karnataka ranji fans if they had called Vinay Kumar a cheater for not walking and ensuring he was dropped from the semis. Obviously they did not. Which is why I am calling lunatic sore losers for abusing an India legend. 

 

Gavaskar's wife had rotten rubbish thrown at her in Eden, decided not to play there ever after. Pujara should do the same for Chinnaswamy.