Well blog readers we are still in the festive season and i feel it is time to hand out some awards for sporting excellence and lunacy before 2011 draws to the end.
Oddly enough, as i write this blog i am watching the 1st cricket test match between Australia and India in Melbourne and i feel obliged, in fact i am highly tempted to travel to India, to personally hand the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) the award for the most bizarre decision in sport this year.
You get the feeling BCCI don't like the introduction of the Decision Review System (DRS) to cricket. Apparently they have major reservations about the accuracy of the whole system particularly when it comes to Hawk/Eagle Eye and LBW decisions or something. I'm sure they don't like Hot Spot or Snicko either, but hey ho each to their own. Anyway, at this present time India are allowed to do a David Cameron and veto any attempt for progress in the game in terms getting correct decisions in games, by refusing the implementation of DRS in a test series, as they have chosen to do the series.
Now call me competitive, but if i was bowling against the likes of a Michael Hussey, who has the uncanny knack of doing an impression of a immovable brick wall a large majority of time in his innings, I would employ every resource known to man in an attempt in getting him out. It appears the BCCI are not of the same opinion however, and as a consequence thanks to their players not being able to use the DRS they had missed the opportunity to dismiss Hussey three times before he reached the dizzy heights of 89 in his innings, according to the dulcet tones of Tony Greig in the Channel Nine commentary box this morning. Apparently Hussey should have in fact been having a beverage of his own choice back in the pavillion last night.
The fact of the matter is Hussey not being dismissed yesterday could well be costly to India as they now require 292 runs in the final innings to win the test match, when they could have been firmly in the box seat to win the test.
I mean seriously am i missing something here. If it was the England Cricket Board deciding on the implementation of the DRS system in this test series, then Hussey would have been having tea, dinner, breakfast and lunch in the pavillion.
ICC, don't think you don't get a mention here. In fact i'm tempted to give them an award for incompetency of the year. Why oh why do India even have the choice to allow or veto the use of technology in a test series based on their own agenda? The fact of the matter is the ICC as cricket's governing body should show authority and decide whether to employ the DRS accross the board in cricket, or simply leave it as a game of decision making by an umpire with an element of possible human error and leave international cricket boards in no doubt that if the DRS is democratically voted for, every country has no choice but to use it whether they like it or not.
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