I am writing this article after being terribly dissapointed reading the articles in some of the Indian E-news papers about the dismissals of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly. For the benefit of the readers, Sachin was given Leg-before while not offering a shot to a Collingwood delivery, and the ball was clearly missing off-stump by 5-6 inches. Ganguly was caught behind down the leg-side, or so the umpire and the Englishmen thought, when there was no evidence of any contact with the bat.
Indians tend to get extremely happy when Sachin escapes a caught-behind, we all know he is not a walker like Gilchrist, and start celebrating at the good fortune. But when he was wrongly given out, there seems to be rage among the Indian Press and there are headlines critisizing Taufel's decision. It is so unfair to the umpire, who has constantly established his credibility, and as a matter of fact he makes the game more competitive by giving the advantage to the bowler on more occasions than not in this era of batsman dominated matches. The first and foremost criticism must be on Sachin, for not playing a shot, albeit the ball was outside off, especially against a bowler like Collingwood. He should be shocked at the replay, for the way he padded up and not for the decision, and its hi-time Indian press starts realising that. They are projecting Taufel as a demon, who is adament on spoiling the Indian party in Nottingham.
Fine! Mistakes happen. Had the batsman played a shot , it would have never happened. Lets give the man some leeway, and let him continue his wonderful umpiring job. And it wouldn't hurt if some people thought twice before they started typing...
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