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bengali333

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I don't disagree. Bucknor's decisions were horrendous and had an impact on the game unlike the BD game but the reaction ( especially amongst the fans & in the MSM ) and the threat to Boycott seemed OTT . All of this was also exacerbated by the harbhajan incident. In Hindsight , it could have been handled better. Captain Kumble ,though devastated by the loss and the behavior of the opponents, maintained an admirable composure as compared to everybody else.
I didn't see the Indian PM claim that we would have won had decisions not gone against us. Also, you cannot look at Bucknor decisions in isolation. Bucknor consistently gave decisions against India for a long long time. He did not make one error in that match, but multiple errors and all went against India. When so many decisions go only against you and no bad decision goes against the opposition, then it gives the impression that the umpire is biased. By the way, in the Ind-BD match, a clear edge from Imrul Kayes caught by Dhoni was not given out. How come all of Bangladesh has forgotten about that?
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Not even close. India's reaction to Bucknor (and Benson) was entirely justified. Even the Aussie media fell out of love with Australia and wanted captain Ponting sacked such was the blatant injustice.
Only Peter Roebuck, who wasn't an Australian to begin with. India overreacted after that test. Yes many umpiring decisions went against us but to target the Australian team for that was out of place. Of course the Harbhajan incident did not help either.
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Texan Mentor

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Only Peter Roebuck, who wasn't an Australian to begin with. India overreacted after that test. Yes many umpiring decisions went against us but to target the Australian team for that was out of place. Of course the Harbhajan incident did not help either.
I will respectfully ask you this - have you watched any matches involving India officiated by Bucknor. Here is an extract from an article written long before that Sydney Test occurred:
One instance from the Test series suffices the Indians went up in appeal off the last ball of an over, Bucknor shook his head no, then marched down to the middle of the pitch, pointed a finger at Parthiv Patel, and harangued him much to the teenager's obvious bewilderment. Understandable bewilderment, too, because at the time, Patel was standing wide down the leg side wide enough so that in an ODI, a ball going there would be obviously called. So what was his fault? He wasn't damaging the pitch which is what Bucknor appeared to be saying. It couldn't be that Patel was appealing he had a perfect right to, and he was just one of four or five fielders going up for that appeal, so why would he be singled out? The worst part of that incident was that when skipper Saurav Ganguly walked over to ask the umpire what was wrong, Bucknor turned his back and walked away. What, a captain is not allowed to ask what his player did wrong? How then is he expected to maintain discipline, if he doesn't know what the transgression is? To walk away, as Bucknor did on that occasion, was rude, gratuitously so. Even that episode, though, paled in comparison to what Bucknor did at the Sydney Cricket Ground, in course of Thursday's game between India and Australia. As Rahul Dravid walked out to bat, Bucknor held up the ball, and very obviously ran his finger over one side of it, in an obvious, unmistakable reference to the incident from the previous game when the Indian vice-captain was fined 50 per cent of his match fees for getting a bit of a boiled sweet on the ball, in contravention of the rules. What was that all about, Mr Umpire? A bit of fun at the batsman's expense? What next? If you were officiating when Brett Lee, or Muthiah Muralitharan, or Shoaib Akthar, to name just three, were about to bowl, would you mime a bowler chucking? Or will you, the next time Ganguly leads his men onto the field, mime an old man walking around on crutches, to send up the Indian captain who was fined last game for a slow over rate? Could it be that you are practicing for your next career, as and when more appropriately, if and when this one ends? Trying your hand at stand-up comedy perhaps? Bucknor had no business doing what he did. If Dravid was at fault, it was in a game Bucknor was not involved in. The third umpire reported the transgression, the match referee took punitive action and, in public, explained his decision. Where does Bucknor come into all this? Bucknor's action was, to mince no words, conduct unbecoming of an umpire. But guess what there is no such thing legislated against in the ICC's little book of rules. Players can be jumped on for even the smallest transgressions; they can be hauled before match referees, fined, suspended; the match referee can then talk to the media in detail about whatever the fault was. A player, though, cannot question the official not in public, because it brings the game into disrepute; not in private, because no one is listening. (At the end of the Test series, Ganguly in his official report on Bucknor's umpiring gave him the lowest grade there is. Did that lead to a review? A rethink? Oh no, Bucknor continues to stand in five of India's games in the ongoing series).
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