Indian views...
Unsurprisingly, Indian readers of Cricket Burble have been sending us quite a few emails given the various controversies in the 2nd Test match at Trent Bridge. Here is just one, written by Kirit Parikh (and slightly edited):
Umpiring decisions
The Captain, Coach and the Player should be able to challenge an umpire's decision.
This is done in America in National Football league. If the Umpire's decision stays then the challenging team may be charged five runs or ten or some other number.
The umpire should be allowed to reverse his decision after reviewing the tape. The unpire made a mistake in giving Sachin Tendulkar out at 91. How will he pay for an important statistical century mile stone? India could have made 600 runs.
Looking at Collingwood and Prior you could tell they were surprised at the umpire's decision. It was an half hearted appeal done out of frustration. Big money is involved and both the teams want to win or force a draw. We need to modify rules so that it is fair to both the teams.
There is no such thing like a gentlemen's game
If that was the case why was the English team throwing Jelly beans on the wicket when Zaheer batted? They got away with it. They should be fined half the match fee as they did for Shreesanth.
What are your views? Do you agree with Kirit?
2 comments:
Why not? Let decisions be appealed like in tennis. Somthing has to give when the fans are denied a chance to see Tendulkar score 100.
The England players shouldn't be fined for the jelly beans though.
As long as technology is carefully integrated with the game, then it's hard to argue against further use of technology. If tennis and the NFL can do it, so can cricket. That's the real story here, the jelly bean thing is just funny,and is only being kicked up into a fuss because it makes for funny headlines, but it's not really even a story, and even if true, is nowhere near as unsporting as most of the sledging that goes on unreported in many matches.
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