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Bucknor was at the heart of a series of controversial decisions in last week's second Test, which India lost. The decision is a U-turn by governing body the ICC, which said on Monday that Bucknor would be retained." - BBC "ugly developments... scenes of anger in the Indian streets with the burning of effigies of umpires" - AAP/Foxtel "Symonds is a serial sledger himself and a man who would do well to button his lip. A few months ago in India, the same monkey jibe was deemed not worthy of an official protest by Ponting when 500 people were shouting it from beyond the boundary." - Robert Craddock/news.com.au "So, again -- if the BCCI is serious about "upholding the honor" of the team and the country, should it not file, with irrefutable video evidence available by making a simple call to the broadcasters, a complaint against Ponting for unfairly claiming a catch, and further defending his "integrity" and insisting that the catch was 100 per cent fair?" - Prem Panicker/rediff "These Aussies are sick mentally... ...crude cheating shown by the Australian team... ...Mike must be punished and imposed a life ban. Monkey is hardly a derogratory word in India. We have a 'Monkey God' called hanuman and we have lot of devotees of him." - criketnow.in "Bucknor has come in for criticism for his poor umpiring decisions particularly against India. He was widely criticised for his poor decision making during India's tour of Australia in 2003-04. In May 2006 he accused TV companies of doctoring their images to make umpires look bad, and he was one of the umpires responsible for the farcical finish to the 2007 World Cup final." - Wikipedia " " - |