Poor Umpiring in India-South Africa Cricket Test Series
By chattoearn
@chattoearn (223)
India
January 6, 2007 9:46pm CST
Poor umpiring has definitely helped SA to win the series. Many of the wrong decisions have gone their way and if the umpires had got it right, who knows, the outcome could have been different. Dravid was given out wrongly in both innings of the second test match, Dinesh Karthik was given out in the first innings of the third test match wrongly, Lakshman was given out in the second innings of the third test by the third umpire when the bails were dislodged only after Lakshman made the ground, Tendulkar was given out to a ball that was going leg side, and to top it all, Munaf Patel lost his wicket to the 7th ball of an over. Who knows, all these things, if gone India's way rightly, could have contributed to a famous Indian series victory. What do you say?
2 responses
@tarachand (3895)
• India
7 Jan 07
Can you really expect anything else from cricket umpires, especially in a country that was a bastion for apartheid.
And the white and black umpires are racist, only the Asians try their best to be fair and get castigated by the rest of the cricket world.
You have a good example of Austarlian Hair, an absolute and thorough racist. In the 50's when the supposed 'gentlemen" Englishmen lost an unofficial testmatch in Pakistan, four of them kidnapped the Pakistani umpire and thrashed him, even broke hsi bones, and the English press gave an excuse that the boys did not have anything to do in a then conservative Pakistan. Imagine what would have happened to Aisans if they had done that?
@chattoearn (223)
• India
7 Jan 07
One of the umpires who made most of the mistakes during this series was from Pakistan.
@chattoearn (223)
• India
8 Jan 07
It's more related to the capabilities of that umpire than regional bias.
@aryan20 (74)
• India
7 Jan 07
Well you can't blame everything on the umpires.There were lots of other factors in the India-South Africa Test Series although i agree that poor umpiring was one of them.But at the end of the day we must agree to the fact that umpires are also humans,not machines and such umpiring mistakes are a part of the game.
@chattoearn (223)
• India
7 Jan 07
I actually forgot to add two more "important" decisions that turned the match into South Africa's way. In the second innings, when the Proteas were struggling with Zaheer Khan on fire, Kallis was given not out when he edged the very first ball he faced from Zaheer. If he was given out correctly, maybe, India could have applied the pressure and maybe, would have won the game. Also, in the second innings of the second test, Sreesanth was given out when the ball brushed his shoulder. I dont say that he would have won the game for us, but still, that wrong decision ended the match. To make mistakes is human, I agree, but to make too many mistakes, that too favoring only one side is certainly not human.
