what's got into us??

The world witnessed what transpired on the eventful day of 6th jan 2007.A bright sunday morning,india after a decent showing in the last 4 days was surely heading towards a draw.Dravid and sourav,two of the stalwarts of the game were on the crease battling out on a 5th day sydney test.That is how the situation stood midway through the innings.India, set an improbable 333 to win in 73 overs was battling out for a draw.Then came the fiasco,dravid given out,sourav given out, and posibly if u take the very questionable sense of cricket that rajiv shukla has ,R.P.singh given out,all three decisions any fair umpire would never have given out.Add to that symonds,ponting's,hussey's and clarke's decisions and bhajji being charged on grounds of racism.............u have possibly the best piece of story that the media could gun for.here are some of the headlines that our tv channels displayed as breaking news.............."umpires cheat india","aussies cheat their way to victory",no one was ready to give credit to the aussies and alll had sympathy for india and then what was being said as an undertone became the motto with bhajji's ban,"call the team back".now what was the problem with all dat??..u may ask




well first of all we indians have always been subject to our emotions.never have we been able to control them.Over here too emotions started running high and what happened then was there for everyone to see. Conflicting opinions,politicians jumping into the fray by appealing indians to be called back,donkeys being named as the umpires,effigies being burnt..it was nothing short of mayhem.Pragmatism had taken a backseat,there was complete furore .Thousands of interviews were taken,innumerable conflicting breaking news headlines.Some went to the extent of saying that the tour was cancelled.What was the end result of all this shouting??

india continues with steve bucknor being removed even after the icc made it sure that it went against the laws.
Ten days later the news report would read like,bucknor hard done,sharad powar lets go easy,india humiliated etc.Then the media another scapegoat to keep this issue alive.

the big question dat comes to my mind now is, is the media really interested in indian cricket or all its trying for is a an issue to blow it out of proportion,same is for the molestation case,a commisioner's comment which was strongly misinterpreted,he was trying to defend his force,what the media did was to take up a personal agenda against him.


How many of u think bucknor a veteran of 120 tests was hardone by the icc??
definitely he was the scapegoat of all this, and the bcci's comment that it was a victory for them just goes to say that all that happened , cricket and we the fans were robbed in the aftermath of the sydney test.