The most important issue from yesterday's play

[The Outsider]

Forget about discussing India's continued insipid bowling to the tail, forget about umpires continuing to make a hash out of cricket, forget about Lee's fiery opening spell, forget about Dravid's gritty knock, forget about Laxman's sublime century. Let's talk about how the paying spectators were denied two overs of cricket by Ponting and Australia's go slow over rate here, despite a 30 minute extension in play.

[Ram]

Precisely. This is an unpardonable criminal offense, which deserves the the most extreme chastising. How in this good world can Ponting deny the cricketing public 2 full overs, or 12 whole balls of cricket ? Anything could have happened in that time, Sachin could have hit 11 sixes and ended the day on 85 not out...Too bad Ponting prevented that from happening ! :D

[kabira]

and what more they did not take many wickets. India on Day 1 took 7 wickets so they could have been pardoned for missing over or two.. Ponting should be warned..

[Guest BossBhai]

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[Anakin]

:haha:

[coffee_rules]

:hysterical: You forgot to mention - " ... inspite of spinners bowling 18 overs..."

[Desi Cartman]

I wonder if ponting will step down once he realizes what he has done :giggle:

[The Outsider]

Please, let's not ignore this important issue, lest some posters get upset. How many overs were we short yesterday? 4?

[Dhondy]

Ahem! Denzongpa doesn't look to be in the vicinity. Probably trying to cook up his next line about cherishing cricket, national affinities be damned, rehearsing his exhortations to Indian supporters to be positive, while deriding Kumble's decision not to declare (damn, that 70 lead, if only Kumble was as big a sucker as this gullible lot on ICF), and trying to figure out a way of backtracking from all the spiel he dished out on Sachin being a fading bozo, while Ponting, who he of course has only the passing admiration as a great batsman, nothing to do with national affinities, no sir, remains infuriatingly out of form. Denzonga is an inflated gasbag full of the most toxic, malodorous, pro-tussive mixture of indoles, skatoles and mercaptans ever to emanate from bacterial activity in the human large intestine.

[zubinpepsi]

aaah Denzongpa!!!!!!!! i like this name..:D seriously hes one hella annoying trolll.. mebe frm now on, he ll shut all his holes when he posts here..

[suraj]

Who is Denzongpa?

[zubinpepsi]

this is Denzongpa

[zubinpepsi]

u can find him trollin on the match threads and some thread with an insane one liner against indian team, its players, captain and their strategies...

[aussiefan]

Forget about discussing India's continued insipid bowling to the tail' date=' forget about umpires continuing to make a hash out of cricket, forget about Lee's fiery opening spell, forget about Dravid's gritty knock, forget about Laxman's sublime century. Let's talk about how the paying spectators were denied two overs of cricket by Ponting and Australia's go slow over rate here, despite a 30 minute extension in play.[/quote'] you're right, automatic match fee fine of 50% is the only way to teach these antipodean colonials......they are showing their convict pedree by "stealing" play from the Indian team with that shocking slow play...:cantstop:

[Sachinism]

these days teams dont really seem to worry about slow over rates we constantly see it happening

[varun]

you're right' date=' automatic match fee fine of 50% is the only way to teach these antipodean colonials......they are showing their convict pedree by "stealing" play from the Indian team with that shocking slow play...:cantstop:[/quote'] The Opening post is a sarcastic post aimed at an Australian poster who was complaining against India's slow over rate on the first day.

[aussiefan]

i got all that, hence my ironicical ( :haha: ) comment too

[The Outsider]

i got all that' date=' hence my ironicical ( :haha: ) comment too[/quote'] Is that so?

[aussiefan]

yah, like really so, yah, i mean like, ok, yeah, yah, yes dude.

[The Outsider]

yah' date=' like really so, yah, i mean like, ok, yeah, yah, yes dude.[/quote'] Nice of you to show off your entire vocabulary in one post. Aaapreciaaate iiiit maaite!!