howzzat????

The Indians need to be as good (or as bad - depending on your point of view) as the aussies when it comes to appealing. And in most cases, we are! The Indians should and DO appeal for any possible chance that the umpire will give it out. Kumble is no saint in that matter. And why not?

As is evident in the current Ind-Aus Test series, the Aussies are more effective, though.

Unfortunately, there is no great yardstick in determining whether it all evens out for a player in the end, and going by memory is certainly not a good yardstick because it is always selective. I
don't care if it evens out or not for a particular player, because circumstances are different on each occasion. It should be about whether the player is OUT or NOT OUT on that occasion, and given today's technology, it is outright STUPID that the administrators do not allow the use of technology to make decisions or offer some sort of a challenge system. Cricket will suffer until some action is taken regarding this. All this talk about umpires being human and should be allowed to make mistakes is BULLSHIT - no one watches the game to see umpires making mistakes.

Its so ironic that cricket introduced "hawk eye" to the world - but its tennis and other sports that are benefiting from the technology to bring fairness and justice to the game, while all the ICC can do is set up an exploratory committee to figure out if it is worth introducing more technology into the game.

Wake up, ICC, before its too late!