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If the opening day set the tone with three dubious decisions, the final day which saw India crashing to a shock 122-run defeat witnessed a number of horrendous decisions which proved costly for the visitors.
The series of blunders in this Test will further strengthen the demand for the use of technology to minimize human error.
Both the umpires knocked the life out of India's second innings resistance with two decisions and the visitors could not recover from the setbacks.
After a top order collapse, Sourav Ganguly (51) and Rahul Dravid (38) had just steadied the rocking boat when both returned to dubious dismissals.
Dravid had padded an Andrew Symonds delivery that brushed his knee-roll before landing on Adam Gilchrist's gloves and Bucknor ruled the batsman caught behind.
Next was the turn of Benson who ruled Ganguly out even though Michael Clarke took a catch that apparently came off the ground.
Benson surprisingly preferred not to consider Bucknor or the third umpire and instead asked Ricky Ponting, who gestured that Ganguly was out.
Much to Ganguly's dismay, Benson raised his finger, a decision that had former India captain Sunil Gavaskar livid.
Gavaskar lambasted Benson for not consulting Bucknor or the third umpire and going by Ponting's words.
The Indian cricket team need to show pride and come home from this circus tour of Australia. It is not worth playing with cheats who seem to have bought the referees. Australians world champions; nope world Cheats. Ponting
Shame !! . Man of the match should be Umpires not Symonds. Oz deserve ony 40% of he victory.
It clearly looks like match fixing by bribing the two umpires who actually defeated India. The ICCI should view this seriously and investigate the matter further and till then they should ban these two umpires. Use of video has been used for accurate decisions in every sport now and they must rely on replay video rather than stupid umpiring. Also, a player is always penalized for his act on the field and why not the umpires? This is atrocious! Is this the way the "world champions" wanted to win? Shame on them!
Australia under Ricky Ponting is bunch of cheaters.This win will haunt Ponting whole his life as being most Unsportmanship
Go, get lost Bucknor. Don't show your cheater face again in the grounds if you have any self-respect left.
Well, the umpires were totally biased against India. It was very obvious. More obvious is that 3 of our STAR batsmen, Jaffer, Yuvi and Dhon were NOT the victims of bad decisions but they failed miserably. Also, once again in less than 2 overs Michael Clark (spinner) took 3 wickets for 5 runs. He did so in India too taking 6 wickets; he is a part time spinner! For God's sake, look inward also and see if we still need these Joker non-performers when Sehwag and Pathan are still around!
australians are a bunch of egoistic hipocrites who have spoiled the spirit of the game by involving in such kind of cheap tactics to win so-called test crickets.........shame on their nation!!!!!!!!
SHAME ON AUSTRALIA A WORLD CHAMPION TO WIN WITH THESE DECISISONS ( HELPED BY BRIBED UMPIRES )
Stop blaming any one but these bunch of IDIOTS,who cannot lift aweight of washing pin.Wake up.Blame everyone and everything but these buffons.Give me a break.Please tell the truth.Ya,ampires made a mistake,but always.These hijadas are killing Indians by heart attack and shame.Please stop singiing songs for these ass holes.They are in their for mull adn phudis.Expose them.Losing is not a shame but the way and consistency with these so called KRIKETERS managed.They deserve stick in their ass.
What ever happened is past..., but the Australians or the Australian cricket team does not deserve the victory. What Ponting, Symonds, Clark or Hussey did was not a sportsmanship act, instead they should have walked out knowing that they were OUT, and cannot wait for the Umpire to give a bad decision. Absolute nonsense for a team that says that they are the World Number 1.
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