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India failed to survive the last seven balls of the match as Michael Clarke snapped up three wickets in a span of five balls to give the hosts a record-equalling 16th consecutive Test win.
On a controversial fifth day's play, the Indians were left to chase a stiff target of 333 in 72 overs but they were skittled out for 210 in 70.5 overs as Australia took an invincible 2-0 lead in the four-match series.
In the nerve-wracking final moments, it seemed India would manage a draw at 210 for seven but Clarke dismissed Harbhajan Singh, RP Singh and Ishant Sharma in quick succession to hand a dramatic victory to his team.
The victory in this rivetting Test, marked by controversial umpiring decisions and a simmering race row, allows the home team to retain the Border-Gavaskar trophy.
The fifth and final day was sullied by some horrendous umpiring decisions and as has been the case so far, Australia had no reason to complaint while India found themselves at the receiving end of the goof-ups by Steve Bucknor and Mark Benson.
Although the Indians had reasons to be aggrieved with umpiring, the batting collapse was quite inexplicable as the fifth day SCG track did have something for the bowlers but was not unplayable for an experienced batting line-up.
Apart from the Umpires being pro Aussie and the Australian side being Sissies, our fielding is awful. Lets be true to ourselves. Our players are playing for themselves, not as a team, as in the 20/20 series.
Penalizing umpires for wrong decisions is a great workaround for these kind of umpires. Each umpire should have a point based evaluation of each decision he makes and can be terminated based on evidence found for a certain maximum number of incorrect decisions. The batsman deserves to get the benefit of technology being used on the field to make decisions. So whenever the batsman is sure, the field umpire must make use of the third umpire.
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Well, right or wrong the umpire's decision is Final and it cannot be changed; this is the unfortunate reality, even when the umpires in this case were blatantly pro-Australian (Mark Benson asking Ponting, but not his fellow umpire or the batsman for an opinion before giving the Indian batsman out). However,the failure of Jaffer,Yuvi and Dhoni in ALL the 4 innings so far is the greater reason for our defeat; had they COMBINEDLY played JUST 2 more overs in the second innings in Sydney, Indian could have drawn the match. This is something within Indian team's control; what are they going to do about these highly paid, under-achieving SUPER STARS?? None of these players has been given out wrongly!!
Well, right or wrong the umpire's decision is Final and it cannot be changed; this is the unfortunate reality, even when the umpires in this case were blatantly pro-Australian (Mark Benson asking Ponting, but not his fellow umpire or the batsman for an opinion before giving the batsman out). However,the failure of Jaffer,Yuvi and Dhoni in ALL the 4 innings so far is the greater reason for our defeat; had they COMBINEDLY player JUST 2 more overs in the second innings in Sydney, Indian could have drawn the match. This is something within Indian team's control; what are they going to do about these highly paid, under-achieving SUPER STARS?? None of these players has been given out wrongly!!
India has lost the two test matches rather pathetically. No point in complaining about umpering decisions. No one will remember these things in the future. Can our team rise above their sorrowful performance and redeem some of their pride by playing good cricket?
come on my friend, watch some cricket before commenting on articles. I wonder you have ever played cricket.First atleast watch some highlights of the match and then critisize.
When the player's concentration lies some where else (birthday parties), we see this kinda performance. Its high time players should realize that they are representing a country and not playing a an individual.
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