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| I saw the catch too. It was clean. you could even see Graeme Smith's fingers under the ball. 3rd umpire screwed up. onfield umpire screwed up. ganguly screwed up. warne screwed up. 3rd umpire should have been fined too. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pratap Kumar, the on-field umpire, has been suspended for a game following the catch controversy during Thursday's IPL match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals. Ganguly ASKED Kumar to refer a decision to the third umpire after he wasn't convinced about a take by Rajasthan's Graeme Smith at the deep-midwicket boundary. Asad Rauf, the third umpire, ruled in favour of the batsman after replays weren't entirely conclusive. In his post-match comments, Warne, the Rajasthan captain, hit out at Ganguly's behaviour and condemned his attitude towards the IPL's spirit of cricket agreement. Farokh Engineer, the match referee, ruled that Ganguly's act of ASKING the umpire to refer a decision constituted a level 1 offence according to the ICC's code of conduct. Engineer also found there was no reason for Kumar to accede to the plea to refer the decision, and ruled him out for a game. Kumar is the second umpire to be suspended in the IPL. Amiesh Saheba was dropped for two matches following his comments about Sreesanth's behaviour to the Mumbai Mirror tabloid newspaper. |
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| Like I said before, I am an Indian, I looked at the replay, the catch was clean. very very disappointed by the 3rd umpire. Ganguly is just another cry baby. |
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| wow !!!so claiming a catch which was never taken comes to the right spirit of the game mr.warne? tv footage clearly showed that catch wasnt clean and third umpire confirmed it and ganguly didnt ask the (indian)umpire to go to the third umpire ...he just told the umpire that he thought that the catch wasnt clean it was the umpire who consulted to the third umpire then... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Now if Halfachance, I mean Harbhajan had been the catcher how woud the umpire react. Maybe the verdict would be half out. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| not ganguly??? never! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shane Warne led the Rajasthan Royals to their fourth straight Indian Premier League win today before launching a scathing attack on former India captain Sourav Ganguly for refusing to walk. The Royals moved to equal top of the competition after a 45-run win over the Kolkata Knight Riders in Jaipur. But the leg-spinning legend and Royals captain was angry Ganguly refused to walk for a catch claimed at deep midwicket by South African captain Graeme Smith. Despite Smith's confidence he had caught the ball before it hit the ground, Ganguly stood his ground and asked for a replay. He was given not out after TV footage proved inconclusive. The Indian captain fell the next over anyway, caught off Warne's bowling for 51, but the Australian afterwards accused Ganguly of not playing in the spirit of the game. "I was disappointed because in Bangalore we signed that wall about the spirit of cricket," Warne said after the match. "If an international captain like Graeme Smith caught it and said it was a clean catch and Rudi Koertzen said he caught it, easy... "And anyway, the players aren't allowed to ask for the umpire. "But Sourav asked the Indian umpire to go to the TV replay. "That's not in the spirit of the game so I was very, very disappointed with Sourav." |
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