Dhoni versus Lara
First, Dhoni hit some amazing sixes.
Then, there was controversy over whether Dhoni was out.
A lot of people are speaking on this.
• Amit Ken.
• Manish Varma.
• Saakshi Juneja.
My take - Firstly, Lara had no business interfering. Umpire’s decisions should be respected. Sadly though, Lara is likely to get away with a match fee cut, if at all, and nothing more.
Secondly, in the perspective of the match, it shouldn’t really matter as it is unlikely to come to six runs to decide the test match. So Dhoni did the right thing by ending the controversy then and there. Cricket can be funny and it will be hilarious if it ends up being a close thriller and those 6 runs could have had an impact.
In other cricket stuff, Murali has wielded his magic over the English once again. Read Zainub Razvi’s review of the match here.
Tags: India West Indies, Indian Cricket, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, West Indies Cricket.
June 6th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Hey thanks!
wanted to see what happened!
June 6th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
[…] Siddharth at CricInfo gives out the exact details. Pratyush has video clippings of the incident. Sakshi mentions how Lara crumbled under Dhoni's pressure. worma @ Cricket 24×7 is pondering between the official and unofficial aspects of the drama. Tags: | cricket | test cricket | indian cricket | […]
June 6th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Thanks for the link Prat, and you’re right it should really be a big issue if it was six or out, but Lara’s general behaviour is a big issue with me. I saw Jayawereden losing his compusure for a few seconds in the Trent Bridge test and even though he apologised he still got fined, and here you have Lara, season campaigned, captain of the West Indies, with all the experience in the world to know he shouldn’t have acted in teh matten he did, yet even dispite the fact that Lara should no apparent regret at his behaviour he gets no fines, no warnings, not even a hearing with the match referee. And then the ICC says they’re consistent in the way their match referree apply their laws…
June 6th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
[…] Sakshi thinks that Lara did not act sportingly and literally threw a tantrum on the field. Pratyush has the video of the incident. […]
June 7th, 2006 at 2:36 am
I don’t know much about cricket but it baffles me how come it was not clear by television replay ? Were there not sufficient cameras to take the frame from every angle ?
June 7th, 2006 at 3:33 am
@ Mayank - Good you saw it then. :)
@ Zainub - It will be a shame if he is not even fined.
June 7th, 2006 at 6:00 am
Satya, it wasn’t conclusive by television replays. Baffling but true.. :)
June 7th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
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