England will be moaning and they will be right to!

[King Tendulkar]

Quite rightly after theis england are going to be moaning about losing on D/L. And saying its not fair and what rubbish planning it was to schedule a game were it was pretty clear the light would end game. Why not schedule a day/night game? Start earlier? Why was interval not reduced to 10 mins? etc etc. A bit embarassing IMO for BCCI and indian cricket! We should IMO take the moaning and not get annoyed by it. Cos they have a point!

[Desi Cartman]

Poms should be the last one to whinge about match ending early cuz of bad light or bad weather .. PS: yes BCCI suxxx .. they should shove one of the light poles inside the person who scheduled this game

[bharat297]

They have a right to complain ... cos if the match went for the scheduled 49 overs ... had they taken another wicket it could have opened things up ... however its part and parcel of D/L ... we probably could have beaten Sri Lanka had the match in Canberra not been cut short due to D/L.

[King Tendulkar]

They have the right to moan cos its pants planning by BCCI. Really cr#p planning. Look at interview after game. Dhoni said he knew D/L would come in to play as it gets dark hear very early and we knew game would not be completed. IF HE KNEW WHY DID THE ****ING BCCI NOT KNOW!

[Temujin Khaghan]

how pissed up we might have been... had it been us on the recieving end?

[Temujin Khaghan]

They have the right to moan cos its pants planning by BCCI. Really cr#p planning. Look at interview after game. Dhoni said he knew D/L would come in to play as it gets dark hear very early and we knew game would not be completed. IF HE KNEW WHY DID THE ****ING BCCI NOT KNOW!

KT... dont match refrees and umpires come under ICC? just asking correct me if iam wrong

[SachDan]

Quite rightly after theis england are going to be moaning about losing on D/L. And saying its not fair and what rubbish planning it was to schedule a game were it was pretty clear the light would end game. Why not schedule a day/night game? Start earlier? Why was interval not reduced to 10 mins? etc etc. A bit embarassing IMO for BCCI and indian cricket! We should IMO take the moaning and not get annoyed by it. Cos they have a point!

embarassing and BCCI ? you must be kidding. btw Srinath was saying on Neo cricket that before the series,both captains agreed not to use lights in a day game.So there is no point in England complaining now.Good that we were not at the receiving end.

[cochise]

Guys...Botham was doing commentary and said that both sides agreed before the series not to use the lights.

[Sachinism]

If both sides agreed, then England better keep their mouths shut I don't know why they agreed to something like that, wouldn't it have been better to use the lights and make sure we get a proper result.

[cochise]

Botham was wondering the same...it is a strange choice...

[SachDan]

English media lambast umpires for kanpur farce LONDON: India's Duckworth/Lewis win in the Kanpur one-dayer against England was dubbed 'farcical' by an angry British media, which lambasted umpires Russell Tiffin and Amiesh Sahiba for their "lack of common sense" in conducting the game. India won by 16 runs in the 49-overs-a-side match that started late and ended early under fading light, much to the frustration of English team which is now 0-3 down in the seven-match series. English skipper Kevin Pietersen minced no words in saying that his side had been robbed of a win by the way officials conducted the match and his views were seconded by an equally furious media here. "The International Cricket Council is always changing its playing regulations, but one rule that it claims umpires can apply at any time is common sense, something utterly lacking in Kanpur," wrote 'The Daily Telegraph'. "...you could understand their (England players') anger at seeing their best chance of winning a game in this one-day series disappear at the click of a light meter," it said. Putting the blame squarely on Tiffin -- the senior of the two officials -- the newspaper said the match could have done with a shorter lunch break, as suggested by Pietersen and England coach Peter Moores. The daily said deducting just one over a side after a 45-minute delay was also a logic-defying decision. "He (Tiffin) should have shortened the lunch interval, which umpires can do, following the one-day farce at Edgbaston last year, when play was called off just one over short of constituting a game," the newspaper said. "Their biggest mistake was made at the start, when Tiffin announced that the match would be 49-overs a side. Fitting that many in after losing 45 minutes at the start was always overly optimistic and, given a 10-minute tweak at lunch, 45 overs-a-side would have been about perfect." 'The Guardian' was also scathing in its criticism of how the game went about and said, "The match was delayed by 45 minutes for morning mist, but nonsensically the overs were reduced only by one over per side to 49. By 4.30pm, the light was predictably fading, and even though England's spinners were bowling, umpires Russell Tiffin and Amiesh Saheba offered India bad light and victory by the dreaded Duckworth-Lewis calculations. "Appoint an umpire called Tiffin to a match involving India and England and it is to be expected that he comes overall 'old colonial' and stops for tea at 4.30," the newspaper fumed. 'The Independent' felt the umpires robbed England of what could have been a hard-fought and deserving win. "The Kanpur smog ruined Englands chances of fighting their way back in to the seven match series when the umpires offered India's batsmen the light with the game delicately placed. "India still required 43 in nine overs with five wickets in hand when the match officials deemed the conditions not to be fit, a decision that robbed England the chance of a victory they had worked so hard to achieve," the daily wrote. 'The Times' echoed the sentiment and said the officials' surprised one and all with their decisions despite being well aware of the weather conditions in the Indian city. "For all that, questions need to be asked over why the game was allowed to end before time. Anybody who has been in Kanpur this week knew that the light starts to fade around four o'clock in the afternoon. "The second mistake of the officials was to dock just a single over from each innings instead of reducing the break between innings. Those two decisions created a farce that was waiting to happen," it said. Wide-selling tabloid, 'The Daily Mail' described the upmpires' decision "crass" and wrote,"Cricket's capacity to shoot itself in the foot knows no bounds and the farcical end to the third one-day international hereon Thursday was another example of rules and regulations holding sway over the interests of spectators and simple common sense. "At the end of it, England's slim chances of taking anything from this series had all but disappeared." :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: Well they know a thing or two about cricket !

[Sachinism]

LOL are English media saying England were robbed, come on people, the match was balanced, we had the number 1 ODI batsman at the crease

[cochise]

The match was well under control. Dhoni and Pathan were cruising and could have switched gears anytime...up or down....they switched down and were still doing it in a canter. Of course, a couple of quick wickets and that could have changed...Flintoff had only one over left and who else was looking dangerous to batsmen content on working the singles and putting away the bad ball? No one.

[Lord]

LOL are English media saying England were robbed' date=' come on people,[b'] the match was balanced, we had the number 1 ODI batsman at the crease

we needed 45 off 9 ovs with 5 wickets in hand? how can it be balanced.it was well in our pocket

[King Tendulkar]

LOL are English media saying England were robbed' date=' come on people, the match was balanced, we had the number 1 ODI batsman at the crease[/quote'] To be fair to them they are not saying this. Flintoff after the game to be fair to him said India were still favs to win and I am not saying we would have won but a couple of wickets and you never know. I think that is fair comment. I also did not get that much enjoyment from a pretty farcical win. Also same problem could happen in 6th odi. KP has rightly pointed this out as well. Some come on BCCI and ICC if the 6th odi also descends in to such a farce then really really embarassing and not fair

[cowboysfan]

the problem is supposed to get worse in guwahati where it is supposed to get dark @ 3:30 pm.

[sharma]

is it the bcci's job to decide to turn on the lights or that of the captains and/or the icc? i dont see how d/l coming into the game was coz of bcci, they had no say into anything

[SachDan]

the problem is supposed to get worse in guwahati where it is supposed to get dark @ 3:30 pm.

most of the matches in Guwahati used to start at 8:30 am as sunlight fades very quickly in that part of the country. Condition of the ground too is a cause for concern as Nehru Stadium hosts National Games every year.

[Shane]

the problem is supposed to get worse in guwahati where it is supposed to get dark @ 3:30 pm.

Well we would have wrapped the series up by then !!!

[beetle]

We have been scr#%$d by D/L so often....they never sympathised with us.