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Umpires robbed England of win in Kanpur: British media

London, November 21: : India's Duckworth/Lewis win in the Kanpur one-dayer against England was dubbed 'farcical' by an angry British media, which lambasted umpires Russell Tiffin and Amiesh Sahiba for their "lack of common sense" in conducting the game. India won by 16 runs in the 49-overs-a-side match that started l ....Read more

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Common SenseBy: Dinesh | Friday , 21 Nov '08 21:23:16 PM Reply | Forward That 's right. Umpire must use common sense in games played by one of the white teams. And the common sense is" help white team win the matches like they did in sydney, Aust. Common sense also means impose 8 times more fine on players of subcontinent for similar infringement. Example Zaheer's (80%)fine versus Watson's (10%). In the interest of the game those upmires not having such a common sense must be removed. You can not let a white team lose like that. Come on use your common sense. So follow your common sense in next game if you want to be an umpire otherwise English media and ICC will ban you.

British media have no right to umpire CricketBy: Puthenthope | Friday , 21 Nov '08 21:05:21 PM Reply | Forward Hi Brits, Shut your mouth and focus on next 4 games if you want to win. This is a new breed of Indians. Can you win at least one game to save your ego?In Cricket there are umpires to do their job. The media who criticized the umpires should be ashamed because they are strictly following the regulations and no question about it.

India's win at Kanpur By: N.RAJ VIGNESH | Friday , 21 Nov '08 19:13:41 PM Reply | Forward Even if the match was played, I am sure India would have definitely made it. England should not try to make these sort of remarks on the Umpires or the Duckworth Lewis method of declaring the results. I do agree that Duckworth Lewis method is bit harsh, but is always to the disadvantage of the team batting second. In the instant case, India has made it well ahead and were in a very convenient position. Even if the match was continued, imagine for a while that there was no bad light, the match would have gone in favour of India with minimum 2 to 3 overs to spare. I wish English team to concentrate in their future matches instead of brooding over whatever that has happened. This sort of attitude can be expected only from Aussies and not from English.

Umpire robbed Engla...By: Dharam Pal | Friday , 21 Nov '08 18:57:55 PM Reply | Forward England could have won if the life had not faded. India!s chances were higher. Till the play ended India had the upper hand. The conjectures by the England Captain and their media are only speculative. Umpires have been unnecessarily put on trial. Captains should learn to be graceful in defeat as much as they enjoy victory.

English mediaBy: zafar | Friday , 21 Nov '08 18:54:19 PM Reply | Forward Had it been England winning as per DL rule everything under the sky would have been transparent.We are capable of winning the series without that win as well

Umpires robbed Engla...By: Dharam Pal | Friday , 21 Nov '08 18:51:27 PM Reply | Forward England could have won if the light had not faded India had equal if not higher chances of scoring the runs and win. Everything else is speculative and it is not fair to put the umpires on trial. Captains should learn to be graceful in defeat and victory.

3rd ODI - Kanpur- Captaincy at its BestBy: HL Kumar | Friday , 21 Nov '08 17:54:15 PM Reply | Forward The English Captain should be heard, or at least overheard, the Indian Captain opining after losing the toss, that the D/L method will come into play during early evening and that he would have opted to bowl even if he had won the toss. That is brilliant assessment and calculated usage of resources and the latest blessing-in-disguise called the "Batting Team Power Play". Better than lamenting on the loss contributed to first by the England batsmen scoring at least 40-50 runs lesser, their bowlers could not capitalise on the earlier lapses by the Indian batsmen. At the end of the day, the captain who is able to better utilize his resources had the last laugh.......

Double Standards of the White By: Indian | Friday , 21 Nov '08 16:00:33 PM Reply | Forward I general this is typical of Brits/Aussies/Americans/white who claim high moral ground as long as they have the upper hand. When you look back in history, these guys have committed the worst crimes possible for centuries and now they are model citizens to the world.

kanpur one dayBy: narayan | Friday , 21 Nov '08 15:53:04 PM Reply | Forward dont worry india can win another two matches and the result will be the same. however let us accept the fact that after 45 minutes delay how the umpires decided to reduce only two overs because in 45 minutes the stipulated overs bowled should be 10 as rightly pointed out. if there were only 1 or two wickets left he can say england had the chance to win. when there were 5 wickets left and pathan playing his shots the match could have been finished in 45 overs.

After Austalians British are metnally disintegrating.By: Holly Joosus Kreist | Friday , 21 Nov '08 14:55:20 PM Reply | Forward Seems that now its the British who are mentally disintegrating after Ponting and symonds and Australians have. Very entertaining to watch.

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