India in SA : Unofficial Test Match

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Nov 24, 2001

Shane Warne, Shaun Pollock, Allan Donald & Dominic Cork are the pioneers when it comes to "excessive appealing", not Sehwag.

But how come they never get punished? It has been one of the biggest wonders of Cricketing history as to why players from sub-continent always are at the recieving end.

Now the big issue is "Did India do the right thing?".

Two ways to answer that, one is logically and other is emotionally.

Logically ,NO. Why? well lets take a few examples from history books. 1932 saw Larwood giving shape to Jardine's bodyline. After the second test there was a big ruckus in the cricket board of Australia. Captain Woodfull wanted to resign and step down, both due to his lack of form and the "Unsportmanlike" tactics used by England.

The famous quote from Woodfull still remains etched in history "There are two teams on the ground, and only one of them is playing Cricket."

On the train to Brisbane the Aussie players talked about their comment which screamed on every newspaper : ENGLAND TEST - NO WITHDRAW, NO TEST.

In the train the players changed their decision. They decided to be fighters rather than quitters. And the game went on.

Murali was called for chucking by the infamous Darell Hair. Sri Lanka completed the series.

So what should India have done?

Now emotionally. We have taken crap for years without purring even a small protest. It was time we needed to show more back bone than that.

Finally the Indian cricket fraternity is standing tall as one. The government, BCCI, former cricketers and former officials with the exception of a certain hard headed one!

As an Indian, as a Cricket fan as a fanatic. I fully endorse India's stand and am very proud that my country has defied the ICC tiger. Steven Waugh and Wasim Akram still are my favourite cricketers but I will still go with Ganguly, they should mind their own bloddy business in their countries.

As far as suspension goes, the ICC just cannot do it. THey need us more than we do!

At times like these, put your logic on the back burner!

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