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Match referee Jeff Crowe found Sharma guilty under ICC Code of Conduct 1.3 rule which refers to dissent by a player on a decision given by umpire on the field.
Crowe stated that since it was the first offence from the young Indian batsmen, he was being fined only 10 per cent of his match, or around Rs 15,000.
Crowe also said that captain of all the three teams were told before the series about the transgressions of the field which could result in punishment.
Sharma lingered on his crease after being ruled out by umpire Rudi Koertzen, caught behind off Muthiah Muralitharan, as he believed he hadnt touched the delivery from the
off-spinner.
The television replays suggested that Sharma was right in his assessment as the ball didnt touch the bat and interestingly, bowler Muralitharan also never quite appealed.
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RatingI suppose the Indian cricket team will force the sacking of yet another umpire and charter a plane- oh, hang on- it was against another asian country, oh, thats ok then. Bloody racists!
Now that the TV replays have clearly shown that Rohit Sharma was right in his assessment that hte ball did not touch his bat at all, how right is it to fine him. a batsman is always sure whether the bat has touched the ball or not which naturally means that he should get a binefit of doubt. And in this particular case even the bowler know that the ball that passed by the batsman and and did not appeal convincingly. ICC needs to decide whether they rely completely on human judgemnt or take help of technology available to them a click away. Unpleasant incidents in the recent past have shown that human assessment has gone wrong on many occasions and therefore no egos should be harboured against using avaible software for better results. .
unfair to punish just the batsmen, when umpires makes mistake, they are equally responsible, had it been the decision post the replays, then the batsmen has a point and could be exempted as there was valid reason for his dissent.
Damn right you are, if it was a non asian player it would'nt matter since the player was only expressing his disappointment in getting out. By the way, the whole world knows how nicely Aussies take umpire's decision gracefully!!! LOL
When will the indians learn the rules of this game ? The umpire is at fault ? "Does n't matter mate", the rules are rules. It applies to every Indian no matter what his 'crime' is. Remember, this is a gentleman's game.
Indians will learn the rules of game (in fact they are learning it quite fast) like aussies did it already..
indian players should learn cricket mannerism.do not become jokers of international cricket
Oh really, what about Ricky Ponting and Andrew Symonds then..who declare out of his own..as if he is a fourth umpire and other shows his bat to umpire..as if he only knows...what is happening in the middle...you guys are the drama queens of cricket ..if we r jokers..if u started sledging now bear it...why u running to umpires now...the fact is u cant take it anymore..lolz..
Channel 9 was trying to forge the replay to say they heard some bird chirp. They do it also with LBWs when they show how ball missed the stumps for appeal by Indians for LBWs.Though this time lbw appeak againt tendulkar's were not considered.
India's spirt of the game shines again, I wonder if the Indian team is packing their bags this time ready to take their bat and ball and fly home.
Brian, :-) we are just trying to emulate the spirit of the Australians viz. M.Clarke, and co - who don't walk when they know they are out. Don't lecture us on the spirit of the game ok? You could perhaps try educating the boors in your team a little of the ettiquette that prevailed in the Bradman years.
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