Ganguly gets to the Aussie Media.....again.

What a Whinge -

Good Ol' Ganguly Ruffles Aussie Media Feathers Again!!!

The Aussies just can't get enough of the Kolkotta Prince it seems......



Intentionally or inadvertently, Sourav Ganguly continues to rub Australians the wrong way and the loacl media poured vitriol on the former India skipper, accusing him of indulging in delaying tactics to ensure the Bangalore Test ended in a draw.

The popular belief is that Australia were destined to win the Bangalore Test but the existing light rule, coupled with Ganguly's delaying tactics, denied Ricky Ponting's men victory in the first of the four-match Test series.

A member of the National Nine News sports team took a potshot at anyone and everyone but was particularly harsh on Ganguly, whom he described as a "serial offender".

"Serial offender Sourav Ganguly firstly persuaded the umpires to go off. Then when play resumed, Ganguly made Australia's fielders and partner VVS Laxman wait an eternity because he'd apparently 'forgotten to put his thigh pad on'. "Please! Can't you be timed out in this game?" he wrote.

According to him, the spectators were the obvious losers in the entire exercise.

"The players got something out of it. Pedantic officials got their moment of the glory. But billions of fans and more importantly -- the game itself -- got nothing out of this farcical finish in Bangalore," he remarked.

Criticising umpire Asad Rauf and Rudy Koertzen, the writer said, "With the match in the balance, a crucial hour's play on the final day was lost, with not one, but two stoppages for bad light -- when at times the sun was shining!

"Umpires strutted about like Emperor Penguins, holding out their light metres -- a device that like performance enhancing drugs should be banned."

Asserting that such finishes would do no good to the game, he went on to say, "If Test cricket continues to produce farcical finishes like this one in Bangalore, this great game's Bradmans, Gavaskars, Tendulkars and Pontings will also be soon forgotten. Even by their mothers-in-law!"

Meanwhile, a Fox Sports commentator went on to demand amendments in International Cricket Council's existing light rules.

"I thought the light was fine and they really need to change the rules regarding that aspect of the game," he said.

"There has to be some pressure placed on the ICC over this as there was no danger at all out there. I'm standing out here half an hour after play has finished, and while it's getting a bit dark now, it was fine half an hour ago and they first came off several hours ago. People come to the ground to watch Test cricket and the light was pretty good and not dangerous at all," he asserted.

Fox Sports also invited readers to comment whether poor light should be allowed to influence the outcome of a game and whether India played the match in the right spirit.

Is there anyone who can vouch and say for certain a little extra time WOULD have resulted in an Aussie win? Didn't think Aussie media also lived in a world of 'What Ifs' like their brainless Indian counterparts.

Looks like a few comments by the Aussie commentators/press have got the rediff boys all sooking again . . .

AB made the point that if India had 20 runs to secure victory they would have kept the light meters in their pockets.

And so the quntathon begins...

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Para Batsman wrote:AB made the point that if India had 20 runs to secure victory they would have kept the light meters in their pockets.

Ofcourse they would have. Unless they were mentally retarded. There's sportsmanship and then there is mind numbing stupidity.

Ganguly - what a legend.

doremi wrote:

Para Batsman wrote:AB made the point that if India had 20 runs to secure victory they would have kept the light meters in their pockets.

Ofcourse they would have. Unless they were mentally retarded. There's sportsmanship and then there is mind numbing stupidity.

Ganguly - what a legend.

It's about as stupid as the continual Indian whining about Bucknor.

Sooking count ...2 Ozzies vs 352 Indians ...

Indians win ...we need to import more poms

embee wrote:Sooking count ...2 Ozzies vs 352 Indians ...

Indians win ...we need to import more poms

Or get Zim back on board.

Ganguly is impartial - he rubs everyone up the wrong way.

The popular belief is that Australia were destined to win the Bangalore Test but the existing light rule, coupled with Ganguly's delaying tactics, denied Ricky Ponting's men victory in the first of the four-match Test series.

I just read the original article. I didn't know that Australian media is even a bigger whinger than the Indian media. Who the hell is this newsperson Andrew McKinlay? Has he never seen a fighting and exciting draw in test cricket? The result was farcical?

And the less said about the Indian media, the better! Why are they not asking when Hayden would retire or when some other Australian players would call it day, since that is the only thing they are interested in?

If a one can't bowl out a side under tremendous pressure to perform on a day 5 track in 83 overs, then I don't think bowling in 10 overs more would have made that big an impact. I could imagine if India were 8 or 9 wickets down and people whinging about a farce. But with 6 wickets in hand is a tad too much to presume. Cricket is a game where nothing can be certain. So all the lovely people who are talking of Aus being deprived of a victory need to get their heads checked because this is a case of another romantic 'What if', the kind that haunts Indians fans when the last day of the Chennai India-Aus test in 2004-05 was washed off or not being able to get the last 4 wickets in Sydney in 2004.

Batman wrote:If a one can't bowl out a side under tremendous pressure to perform on a day 5 track in 83 overs, then I don't think bowling in 10 overs more would have made that big an impact. I could imagine if India were 8 or 9 wickets down and people whinging about a farce. But with 6 wickets in hand is a tad too much to presume. Cricket is a game where nothing can be certain. So all the lovely people who are talking of Aus being deprived of a victory need to get their heads checked because this is a case of another romantic 'What if', the kind that haunts Indians fans when the last day of the Chennai India-Aus test in 2005-05 was washed off or not being able to get the last 4 wickets in Sydney in 2004.

What I don't understand is why has Indian media bought this story, which is senseless at best and idiotic at worst, so gleefully?

Andrew McKinley would be a typical know-nothing sports reporter ....pushing some idiot viewers buttons to make them feel good that Oz were 'robbed' of a win ...

anybody that knows anything about cricket knows its wrong ...and no one else cares ...

Come on, MB, he obviously did it to fire up the Indian media and fans . . . and he has been quite effective. The low-information, uneducated Indian (such as Chandan) feast on this stuff . . .

tac wrote:Come on, MB, he obviously did it to fire up the Indian media and fans . . . and he has been quite effective. The low-information, uneducated Indian (such as Chandan) feast on this stuff . . .

it's the sort of stuff they use on Qbanjo's , West Coast and leeeg fans

Low blow taccy ... (re. Chandan) ... and totally unnecessary.
You're beginning to sound like Gangers yerself!

embee wrote:

tac wrote:Come on, MB, he obviously did it to fire up the Indian media and fans . . . and he has been quite effective. The low-information, uneducated Indian (such as Chandan) feast on this stuff . . .

it's the sort of stuff they use on Qbanjo's , West Coast and leeeg fans

Exactly . . . subis fall into that list somehwere between Toast and Leeeg fans . . .

Merlin wrote:Low blow taccy ... (re. Chandan) ... and totally unnecessary.
You're beginning to sound like Gangers yerself!

See how easy it is . . .

Point taken!!

embee wrote:Andrew McKinley would be a typical know-nothing sports reporter ....pushing some idiot viewers buttons to make them feel good that Oz were 'robbed' of a win ...

anybody that knows anything about cricket knows its wrong ...and no one else cares ...

I've read him for the first time after the stupid Indian media reported all over our newspapers - "Ganguly slammed by Aussie media". I started seaching from SMH and Age but finally ended up on him.

There are many idiots in every country but the Indian journalists have gone one step ahead by borrowing this senseless column gleefully.

Chandan isn't exactly a part of the unknowledgeable tribe who whinges incessantly over nothing.

I didn't know that Australian media is even a bigger whinger than the Indian media.

Don't you remember our tour down under a few months ago?

Point 1, if it was said it is rubbish - to believe 'time wasting' made a difference in this match is bordering on delusional.

Point 2, if Ganguly was wasting time - well, good for him. If your team is fighting for a draw and you are hurrying through the game then you're a bloody idiot. I don't recall Tugga Waugh rushing anything in Sydney in 2004.

Any journalist who has difficulty with these points is also a bloody idiot, and should be ignored.