A series between India and Australia can never go bye without some controversy. But the current series, contrary to what most might think, suggests that nothing has really changed in the power structure over the century. The Anglo Saxon white nations still dominate the politics, the sub-continent still bows down to their old master and the umpiring continues to be biased (though less so) against the coloured nations. The events of the second test, disappointingly, was proof of this.
It is to be expected that the sub-standard parrot-like Australian journalist would be incapable of analysing and presenting the full facts and all we would get is a one-eyed view of the incidents. But what was alarming was how the Indian cricket board (BCCI) were completely submissive to their old master the ICC. Here was an incident where the Australian skipper cheated and admitted to it (previous Aussie skippers would never admit cheating) but the dithering BCCI were incapable of getting any form of action taken against him! The so called roaring BCCI, mouse like, simply got on all fours and worshipped their old master - old habits die hard!
The Australian cricketing community can say what they like, but this was systematic cheating of the nature that has not been seen in the game ever. It was systematic because the whole team were in it as was evident from the fact that Smith and "Petey" both knew what to do and it had occurred repetitively in the test and who knows how many times before. If the Indians had noted this and informed the umpires previously and were so prepared (as was evident in the video) for it when it reoccurred, one has to believe it had been a topic of discussion previously. The only one who was in a daze at the time was that doozy of an umpire Nigel Llong. The Indians were on to Smith in a Jiffy - the doozy was on to the Indians for reacting - the video is quite comical, you can see him in a daze!
Now when you look at it from the Australian cricket team's point of view, one can fully understand why they resort to this sort of cheating. For one, they need to and secondly because they just can. They need to because they have a bunch of dumb players lead by dumb and dumber and coached by Mr Dumbest and so incapable of making sensible decisions on the field. It is not surprising that a group in that situation would resort to cheating. And they can, because as has been proven over and over again and clearly this time too, they got away with it. As Virat implied, any other team, particularly from the sub-continent would have been severely chastised.
What was most cowardly about the whole episode was they decided to use poor young Peter Handscomb as a scapegoat. The skipper was now taking instructions from the second youngest member of the team! Crucifying Peter was simply cowardly!
In the last score or so years, all innovation in cricket (excepting the metal bat- Australia's proud contribution) has come from the sub-continent, whether it be in the techniques in the game or the formats of the game. And the Anglo Saxon dominated white power block has reacted in many stupid ways. Remember the Doosra and reverse swing.
One of the biggest controversies in cricket was when the Australian cricket bureaucracy decided they would take action against Murali - the best off-spinner ever. He was creating sufficient havoc around the world and they clearly didn't like it. So, they pre-planned action against him. Due to the rather dismal level of intellect of the participants it ended up in Emerson and Hair's hands to make the call.
What was dumb founding for the rest of us, was not so much that they called it, but that these two dumbos couldn't differentiate between Muralis off spin and leg spin. Whilst Murali was an off-spinner, Ranatunga (the Sri Lankan skipper) requested him to finish the over bowling leg spinners, where his action could not be questioned. But the ineptitude of these Aussie umpires was such that they couldn't differentiate it and simply called it a no-ball regardless (a fact that one will never read in white newspapers). All of this despite the fact that it had already been proven (medically and through scientific analysis) that Murali was bowling within the rules.
It left no doubt, in the more sensible of us, that this was all premeditated and these umpires were incompetent and pretty much racist - as was proven over and over again thereafter. This was a time when it was, within the white nations at least, assumed that all sub-continental umpires were cheats and they were clean - despite the fact that they had complete dumbos and even paedophiles amongst them. It took time for the sub-continent to get enough control of the authorities to get rid of them from the game. Technology has played a great part in highlighting and getting rid of the cheating white umpires. The outcome is that the sub-continent now dominates the game.
Murali had to face the brunt of the white dumbo buraucracy when he brought into the game another innovation - the doosra. It was quite amusing to listen to the many white commentators of the time suggesting that it was physically impossible. Unfortunately, of course, the Australian so called "experts" were the usual dumbos of the game Ian Chappell, who's the guy with the big nose again (Bill Lawry), Marsh - that dumb lot. The doosra is now a standard part of an off-spinner's artillery.
Another white debacle was the reverse swing controversy. Sub-continental bowler, ball swinging towards the "shiny" side - must be cheating - ball tampering - sound white dumbo logic. If my recollection is right, the Pakistani skipper was banned for a number of games simply because the white bureaucracy decided they were cheating. "It was scientifically proven that this could not happen" they would say. Of course, we all know now that it is possible and even the whities are learning how to do it themselves.
These are examples of the ICC white justice. Coloured players penalised for white dumbness and when there is obvious cheating in the case of dumb Smith, they decide that it's ok. As Gavaskar says, Kohli should do the same in the next test and see what the outcome is - a complete mockery of the rules of the game.
The disappointing message that comes through is that in all it's grand gestures and talk, the BCCI is a mere timid mouse when it comes to its Old master dishing out dumb decisions. White racist power still rules in the game of cricket.
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