There is a famous joke that a match was being held between the angel's team and the devil's team,
'I have all the best players of the world so i will win', the angel said to the devil.
'So what?' remarked the devil, 'I have all the umpires.'
Going by this joke one can be sure that Steve Bucknor is surely in the devil's team of umpires. If i ever get my hands onto the person who coined the proverb 'Old is Gold', I would surely bash him up to pieces. Coz it does not hold good in the case of the lousy, partial Steve Bucknor who was hell bent on giving charity to the Australian team by repeatedly giving decisions in their favour, much to the chagrin of the much superior Indian team in the second test match being played between India and Australia.
There should be a provision in which even the umpires should be punished for wrong decisions. If that becomes the case then surely Steve Bucknor would end up paying a fortune in fines. He is on the wrong side of his 50's and is well behind his prime. He revels in giving wrong decisions especially against the Indians. The ICC could do a huge favour to the game of cricket by fixing an retirement age for the umpires and allowing the players to directly appeal to the 3rd umpire if they are not satisfied by the field umpires. But the irony is that even the 3rd umpire goofed up in giving a simple stumping in favour of the Indians. I dont know whether the Australians have decided that the only way they could defeat the Indians is by cheating.
Had there been a good umpire like Simon Taufel or Asad Rauf, Australia would not have even scored 200 runs. They should be thankful to Steve Bucknor for having allowed them to score 400 odd runs. I wonder whether Steve Bucknor is on the payrolls of Cricket Australia.
Its high time that the ICC revamped its elite panel of umpires and dropped the partial (read Steve Bucknor) umpires just like they did to Darryl Hair (An Australian Umpire).
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