friends, i want to ask you what is cricket?

--- In bluebillionrises@..., Anjana Mishra
<zoot_kitten@...> wrote:
>
> YOUNG BLOOD STANDS A BETTER CHANCE THAN POLITICAL ELDERS
>
> poun_poun <poun_poun@...> wrote:           Hey,
>
> It's great to be part of this group of genuine cricket lovers.
>
> What do you guys think about the twenty-twenty world cup and our
> chances of winning it?
>
> Regards,
> PP
>
>
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--- In bluebillionrises@..., "abheekmaiti"
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>
> --- In bluebillionrises@..., "poun_poun" <poun_poun@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > It's great to be part of this group of genuine cricket lovers.
> >
> > What do you guys think about the twenty-twenty world cup and our
> > chances of winning it?
> >
> > Regards,
> > PP
> >
>
> i think they will lose the cup again
>
I THINK IF THEY LOSE, THEY SHOULD BE GIVEN A CRICKET VERSION OF THE
RAZZIES

--- In bluebillionrises@..., krishna rao jallipalli
<jallipallik@...> wrote:
>
> HAI,
>   WHATEVER IT MAY BE... OUR TEAM WILL DO BEST ONLY WHEN POLITICS
REMOVED FROM CRICKET.  NO CHANCES OF WINNING IF POLITICS ARE THERE.
>
> poun_poun <poun_poun@...> wrote:
>           Hey,
>
> It's great to be part of this group of genuine cricket lovers.
>
> What do you guys think about the twenty-twenty world cup and our
> chances of winning it?
>
> Regards,
> PP
> i think  india have a great chance of winning because we have a
lot of  youngsters
  but other teams r olso strong so we have to be carefull
  iam olways with my team


  chackde india
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if indians perform  well in fielding then definitely we won the 2011 worldcup

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Well this has been the theme of many debates, articles, discussions
and forums in the nation. However it would be great to logically
consider all the prons and cons of what gives cricket the status that
no other sport in the nation has ever achieved?

What has allowed it to rise to this level? How does it work in favour
of the sport and the nation? Also how it works against other sports
and media?

Please go all out and let us all know what you guys think of it?

Regards,
PP

githega india hi  githega
   chackdeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


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HAI,
   WHATEVER IT MAY BE... OUR TEAM WILL DO BEST ONLY WHEN POLITICS REMOVED FROM
CRICKET.  NO CHANCES OF WINNING IF POLITICS ARE THERE.

poun_poun <poun_poun@...> wrote:
           Hey,

It's great to be part of this group of genuine cricket lovers.

What do you guys think about the twenty-twenty world cup and our
chances of winning it?

Regards,
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YOUNG BLOOD STANDS A BETTER CHANCE THAN POLITICAL ELDERS

poun_poun <poun_poun@...> wrote:           Hey,

It's great to be part of this group of genuine cricket lovers.

What do you guys think about the twenty-twenty world cup and our
chances of winning it?

Regards,
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--- In bluebillionrises@..., "poun_poun" <poun_poun@...>
wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> It's great to be part of this group of genuine cricket lovers.
>
> What do you guys think about the twenty-twenty world cup and our
> chances of winning it?
>
> Regards,
> PP
>

i think they will lose the cup again

YOU SAID IT .HIT IT ON THE NAIL IN FACT.I ALSO FEEL THE SAME.WE WILL WIN
   <PROVIDED NO POLITICS AND NO MONEY CHANGES HANDS ILLEGALLY>

krishna rao jallipalli <jallipallik@...> wrote:
           YES.. 100%.. PROVIDED NO POLITICS IN CRICKET...

shiva maruthy <shivamaruthy@...> wrote: yes we will confirmly win the
2011 world cup

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YES.. 100%.. PROVIDED NO POLITICS IN CRICKET...

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Well aren't they always confident? It's great to see some
confidence. But actions speak louder than words. Hope the confidence
pays off.

Regards,
PP





--- In bluebillionrises@..., "ramamurthy_shanamgari"
<ramamurthy_shanamgari@...> wrote:
>
> --- In bluebillionrises@..., wazeena ismail
> <wazeenaismail@> wrote:
> >
> > Dravid confident ahead of Eng series
> >
> >
> >
> >   India skipper Rahul Dravid on Sunday said his team is
confident
> of winning the upcoming first series in England in 20 years.
> >
> > "If there is any tour that you want to take a compliment of
young
> bowlers, it is probably this one," Dravid said as the team ended
its
> three-day training session at the National Cricket Academy in
> Bangalore.
> >
> > "There are at least some practice games for them to get an
> opportunity and to learn in conditions that might help them."
> >
> > "Most of our bowlers are seam and swing bowlers and there might
be
> situations in England when this might help us," Dravid said.
> >
> > The appointment of Chandu Borde as a cricket manager, Dravid can
> focus on leading his team in the challenging summer conditions of
> Ireland and England this summer - something his inexperienced pace
> battery is not used to.
> >
> > "I am sure this is a short term arrangement but I am sure they
will
> be looking to fulfil the role. whatever you may like to call it,
over
> a longer period of time," Dravid said.
> >
> > Taking the burden off Dravid's shoulders in the one dayers would
be
> his new deputy MS Dhoni. He has been rewarded for his consistent
> performance and is looking foward to the new role.
> >
> > "Definitely, you get more responsible when given such a
> responsibility. I am excited on becoming the vice captain and will
> try my best," Dhoni said.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > may be, his fate comes true this time.
> > we are hoping a great victory
> > if our coaches are positive it is a great oppurtunity for indian
> cricket
>

Hey,

It's great to be part of this group of genuine cricket lovers.

What do you guys think about the twenty-twenty world cup and our
chances of winning it?

Regards,
PP

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THANKS SUDHA K.... WE ARE ALL WISHING THE SAME.
   THNKS FOR JOINING

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Hello Sheila,

I have sent below mails to enquiry@..., but have no revert in almost 2
weeks.

On the off-chance that the ICC officer who is responsible to manage that
email account is on vacation, I am re-directing this mail to your personal
ID.

We Indians are really concerned anout the below 2 kind of activities from
your match referees & umpires:

1. Match Referees' eagerness to penalise Indian cricketers for smaller
offences than the world has seen Australia / WI / SA cricketers getting away
with.  This looks like discrimination against Indians.
2. Near 100 % hit-rate of "human errors" of your umpires going against India
during critical phases
of major international matches.

Please advise what ICC is going to do about this.

For starters, we would expect formal disciplinary action (not just a tap on
the knuckles) against match referees who have:

1) Penalised Indians inconsistent with ICC practices.
2) Not penalised Non-Indians as required to as per ICC's code of conduct
rules which were applied to Indians.

In case you require any formal action from the Indian public against ICC and
/ or its sponsors before ICC will be seing
a) treating Indians fairly &
b) ensuring that its staff do not misuse their authority to give vent to
their personal hatred of India,

please let us know what action would be required & we will oblige.

Regards,
Chetan Asher.
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Hello ICC,

I have no response from you to any of the mails below, including the last
one dated 13th August.

In case you are looking for evidence of double-standards against Indians
from your staff,
here are URL's clearly documenting accurate occurances.

1. http://www.hindu.com/2006/06/13/stories/2006061307111800.htm
2. http://ia.rediff.com/cricket/2003/dec/09flash.htm

A request from an Indian to all my Indian friends who are copied here -

Some of you are advocates / know advocates.
In case there is no visible action from ICC against their staff who have
discriminated against Indians, please start exploring the possibility of
filing a public interest litigation in an Indian High Court to -

a) Restrict Indian Passport holders from travelling abroad to participate in
any ICC-managed events.
b) Ensure that corporates doing business in India are not allowed to fund
ICC in any way.
     (Including, but not limited to payment for TV Rights, advertising during
ICC-managed events et al)

We should also look at filing a PIL against BCCI and pray for a court order
to dismiss all BCCI's office bearers who have not fulfilled their basic
ethical responsibility - "ensure fair treatment to Indians by ICC".

Chetan Asher.
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Sheila,

We are not looking for ICC to just "note" our views - In case this
discriminatory misbehaviour of your umpires & match referees is not on ICC
orders, we expect public action against them.

I see no reason why somebody who has abused his position for non-cricketing
reasons should be given the benefit of quietly moving out.  He should be
questioned / penalised in keeping with ICC standards set by public penalties
against Indian / Pakistani players.

Please let us Indians know what action ICC has intends to take against those
of their paid staff members (Umpires & Match Referees) who have been found
blatantly abusing their authority to discriminate against Indians /
Pakistanis.

Clarifying for ICC -

Discrimination is

a) application of a law against Indian offenders when the same Law is not
applied against an offender from another country.

b) Making consistent allegedly human errors that only go against Indians on
the field of play.
      Human errors from your umpires would be treated as human errors & not
commented upon if the
      impact of such errors evens out over a period of time.
      What we Indians have been observing over the last few years is that
almost as a rule, if
       an ICC umpire can err against India at a match-defining moment, he
will err.
      The near 100% success-rate with which umpires manage to ensure that
only India suffers
       from their "human errors" leaves us reasonably certain that those were
not human errors.

All my Indian Friends,

Please support my request to ICC for public action against their staff who
misuse their authority
to discriminate against Indians.

Start by sending emails to ICC whom I have addressed this mail to.  Also
spread the word among
your contacts to support our "Be Fair to Indians" demand.

Regards,
Chetan Asher.
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>From: "Enquiry" <enquiry@...>
>To: "Chetan Asher" <asherca@...>
>Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
>Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:04:17 +0400
>
>Dear Chetan
>
>Thank you for your email. Your comments are duly noted.
>
>Kind regards
>
>Sheila R. Razdan
>Administration Officer - Media & Communications
>International Cricket Council
>TEL: +971 4 3688315
>FAX: +971 4 3688080
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>Al Thuraya Tower 1.
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>Email: sheila.razdan@...
>www.icc-cricket.com
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>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chetan Asher [mailto:asherca@...]
>Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 7:11 PM
>To: Enquiry
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>Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
>
>David,
>
>Ian Howell continues to play for England in this test match.  Paul
>Collingwood of England was out plumb LBW to such an extent that if that
>cannot be given out, the LBW law should be scrapped.
>
>Howell has abused his authority to give Collingwood 2nd batting
>yesterday.
>Subsequently he has
>today given Wasim Jaffer of India out LBW again when the ball was
>missing the top of the stumps by at least 6 inches.  The ball had hit
>Jaffer way over the Knee roll.
>
>In case we do not see you coming out publicly against 1. Mr Madugalle
>your match referee who was at berst lethargic on his paid job -
>Hooliganly Englishmen have not been penalised for behaviour that is
>blatantly not in keeping with the spirit of cricket AND 2. Ian Howell
>who seems to be the star of the English side.
>
>All my Indian Friends -
>
>We have not seen ICC even attempting to take any action against their
>paid staff who are abusing their authority to show Indians inferior to
>than what they actually are.
>
>Allegedly neutral umpire, Ian Howell is doing his best to win the Oval
>Test for England.  He has till date made 5 errors at the Oval, all
>favouring England.  I do not believe these are human errors.
>
>Match Referee Ranjan Madugalle has chosen to take action against an
>Indian for "bringing the game to disrepute", but is not seen levying the
>same charge on Englishmen whose behaviour on the field of play was
>visibly worse.
>
>I appeal to all of you, stop patronising products of any corporate that
>sponsors ICC events.
>I see no reason why we Indians should do anything that results in money
>for an organisation that keeps discriminating against Indians.
>
>Please pass on this request to all Indian cricket lovers that you know.
>
>Hindu,
>
>I would appreciate if you could publish this appeal on behalf of an
>Indian who is pained by ICC's consistent discrimination against Indians
>& BCCI's unwillingness / inability to take action against ICC.
>
>Regards,
>Chetan Asher.
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------------------------------------------------
>Hello David,
>
>Even as we are discussing the blatant discrimination against Indians by
>your staff, Ian Howe has continued his brilliant performance for
>England.
>
>Sourav Ganguly was not out for everyone except Ian Howe.
>To compensate one human error favouring a bowler, Howe declared James
>Anderson, an Englishman NOT OUT when he was out to the whole world.
>
>I repeat something I have stated earlier - Indians may be expected to
>suffer the odd human error from umpires.  However, genuine human errors
>over a period of time level out.
>
>I do not see any level out & the volume of errors against Indian
>cricketers from your umpires as well as match referees only continues to
>grow.
>
>BCCI -
>
>I have no revert for action against ICC staff who are misusing thier
>position to ensure that Indians appear inferior to "Select" teams, not
>even a will reply in ... days.
>
>What is worse, his staff have continued their "Hit India" ways with an
>unreasonably large volume of one-sided "human errors" (as they would
>like Indians to believe, though knowing otherwise).
>The paid match referee remembers cricketing behaviour when Sree Santh of
>India can be blamed.
>Cricketing decorum is not broken when
>Matt Prior the entire English slip cordon are obviously saints, Jelly
>Beans which were meant to disturb the equilibrium of Indian batsmen grew
>on the cricket pitch.
>There was no visible dissent in Englishmen sending a message back to
>Simon Tauffel basis which he asked for a TV replay & reversed what I
>consider the only genuine human error in this series, allowing KP to
>continue batting (I wonder if the match referee would have gone to sleep
>the way he did if KP was replaced with Sachin / Ganguly).
>
>Leaves me thinking that
>
>a) ICC are suffering Indians only for our money.
>b) Umpires & match referees have probably been ordered to pitch in
>against
>     "bloody brown Indians" if Indians start playing well enough to beat
>"select teams".
>      Remember - Bowden at Bangalore, he single-handedly won the test
>match for an ICC
>      favoured Australia, 4 "human errors" all against India.
>      Only Rahul Dravid of India was "unfortunate" to be declared out
>twice at Durban & SA won the
>      test match.
>      During the current series, there have been 4 / 5 alleged human
>errors from ICC's umpires.
>      No prizes for guessing - all batsmen "unfortunate" to be declared
>out are Indians.  All
>      batsmen "Fortunate" to survive close decisions are Englishmen.
>
>After all, Bloody Brown Indians should not be seen better than even
>incompetent "select" teams.
>
>ICC is obviously treating your refusal to pick a public fight with them
>in response to this kind of anti-Indian discriminatory behaviour from
>their staff as a weakness they can exploit to loot Indians AND show us
>as gutless fools.
>
>Remember - ICC's track record -
>Sri Lanka suffered a lot of human errors & harrasment from ICC's umpires
>till Arjuna Ranatunga brought in a couple of lawyers when the
>Australians tried to mis-use their umpires to get rid of Murali.  Once
>Sri Lanka picked a fight, Murali was suddenly fine.
>Similarly - Shoaib Akhtar's bouncer was a faulty action till PCB
>produced TV replays proving that his action was identical to Brett Lee
>of Australia.
>Once this was proved, the law governing bowling action was rectified.
>Virender Sehwag of India taking 2 / 3 steps in the general direction of
>an Umpire was considered "threatening" & he was awarded a 1 testmatch
>ban.
>Please remind us of any action taken by ICC's allegedly neutral match
>referee against Brian Charles Lara of WI who clearly walked upto the
>umpire, abusing him & snatched the ball from him.
>Threat & dissent were both visible to all normal human beings, but
>remind us of any action taken by ICC against Lara.
>
>If you have any sense of self-respect left you should resign your ICC
>membership on grounds of discrimination & mistreatment of Indian
>participants by ICC staff.
>
>Do not spoil India's name & image just for some money that you will be
>able to control as an ICC member.
>
>In fact, there is so much love for Cricket in India that if you resign
>your ICC membership & get into managing domestic cricket, you will
>probably have all the money you want to control from Domestic cricket
>alone.
>
>Also - we Indian cricket lovers would respect you more for standing-up
>for India & Indians rather than taking visibly discriminatory treatment
>against Indians by ICC lying down.
>
>Thanks in advance for being Indian.
>
>Regards,
>Chetan Asher.
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------------------------------------------------------
>Hello David,
>
>I have sent the below mails to your attention on 8th & 9th August.
>Would appreciate a revert on these.
>
>Regards,
>Chetan Asher
>Indian Cricket Lover.
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>Hello David,
>
>I have no response from you to the below mail.
>
>What is worse - your umpires continue to help England.  The same man has
>already given 2 Indians out "erraneously" - Dinesh Karthik & Saurav
>Ganguly's wickets were gifted to incompetent English bowlers by ICC's
>umpires.
>
>That makes a count of 5 human errors from your umpires against India in
>this series alone.
>
>The only error against England invited an argument from the English
>dressing room, in response to which the umpire promptly called for a TV
>replay & reversed that error.
>
>We are yet to hear of the match referee taking any action against the
>Englishmen for what they did.
>
>Regards,
>Chetan.
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>---------------------------------------------------------
>Hello David,
>
>Below examples that come to mind off the cuff:
>
>1. Virender Sehwag of India was levied a 1 test match ban when he took 3
>/ 4 steps in the general direction of the umpire a few years ago, the
>allegation
>- he is threatening the umpire.
>BCCI's appeal for review was also turned down, clearly laying a
>standard.
>Same standard was not followed in a recent incident - I am unable to
>find any action by ICC's umpires / match referees against Brian Lara
>when WI appealed for Dhoni's wicket recently & the umpires gave Dhoni 6
>!  Lara visibly walked upto the umpires in rage, abused them & snatched
>the ball from their hand.
>2. I recollect several Indian fielders charged with violation of varios
>ICC laws when they celebrated the fall of a wicket, but am unable to
>find any record of action taken against Glen McGrath for the abuse &
>visible pointing to the dressing room he did on the field of play after
>getting Sachin's wicket a few years ago.
>3. I recollect a whole host of Indian cricketers penalised for showing
>dissent - Sehwag at Bangalore for pointing to his bat when he had
>actually nicked the ball & Bowden gave him out LBW, Harbhajan in one of
>the Sharjah series because somebody saw a look of dissent in his eyes !
>the list could go on
>
>I am unable to find anything action against
>a) Lara for walking upto the on-field umpires in visible anger &
>snatching the ball from the umpire
>b) Kevin Peterson & the English cricket management in the recent
>incident when Simon Tauffel gave Kevin out caught behind & a message
>came in from the english dressing room basis which Simon Tauffel asked
>for a replay & revised his decision.
>c) Fleming (I think) from Australia who actually stamped his feet on the
>ground like a kid throwing a tantrum when he appealed for LBW against
>Sachin & the umpire ruled Sachin Not out.  This was during the same
>tournament where Harbhajan Singh of India was accused for dissent for
>looking at the umpire !  In fact, during the post-match conference, the
>match referee had cheekily asked media reporters "what dissent" when
>they asked him what action he intended to take against Fleming for
>showing dissent.
>d) The guilty Englishmen for Visible harrasment of Indian batsmen
>through- Matt Prior's lip service & Jelly beans on the field of play
>with a view to harrassing the Indian Batsmen, all discussed very widely
>in the media.
>e) The unfair use of Squash balls / graphite bats by Australian batsmen
>to win World Cup finals.  I know this is not disallowed explicitly.
>However, given the fact that this kind of tactics are not in keeping
>with the spirit of cricket, ICC should have taken action against the
>offenders under Clause
>C1 "Conduct Contrary to the Spirit of the Game", instead of allowing the
>beneficiaries to claim a World Cup title.
>f) Keppler Wessels of SA who actually hit Kapil Dev of India with his
>bat on the field of play.  The match referee openly refused to take any
>action against the offender since the SACB was unable to provide a
>replay tapes (as reported in the media).
>
>What we have sighted is a sledge-hammer when cricketers of Indian /
>Pakistani origin are at fault to the extent of blatantly re-defining
>technicalities - Sachin Tendulkar of India was accused of ball-tampering
>when all he had done was clean the ball, even after the ball showed no
>evidence of being tampered with on one of India's tours of SA.
>
>AND Negligible / no action when cricketers from other teams are
>involved.
>
>There might be more than meets the eye in incidents where match referees
>have chosen to go soft, but there is no public explaination along the
>lines.
>This leaves us to draw our own conclusions.  My assumption of
>discrimination is based on the fact that all cricketers on whom match
>referees have gone soft are either white OR WI.  All cricketers hit hard
>by ICC match referees are Indians / Pakistanis.
>
>When this is added to the below observations -
>
>1.  4 human errors from Billy Bowden in an India Vs Australia test match
>at Bangalore all favouring Australia & Australia won that match.
>2. Rahul Dravid of India declared incorrectly out twice at Durban & SA
>won the test match to level the series.
>3. Rahul Dravid of India again declared incorrectly out at Lord's on the
>4th day..fortunately for India, rain intervened on the 5th day when
>England had all but won the test match.
>4. Sachin Tendulkar & Saurav Ganguly of India given out incorrectly in
>the 2nd test match between India & England, which did not matter in the
>overall result thanks to Zaheer Khan's exceptional bowling in the
>English 2nd innings.
>
>Across a more than 2 year window, I am unable to locate the even-out in
>terms of match-defining human errors from umpires that resulted in
>victories for India against Australia / SA / England.
>
>Regards,
>Chetan Asher.
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>---------------------------------------------------
> >From: "Enquiry" <enquiry@...>
> >To: "Chetan Asher" <asherca@...>
> >Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> >Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:31:29 +0400
> >
> >Dear Chetan
> >
> >I refer to your email which has been referred to me for my attention
> >and reply.
> >
> >All decisions made by the umpires and referees are independently
> >assessed and noted. At the conclusion of every match the captains from
> >both teams have the opportunity to report on the match officials. I
> >also regularly meet with the captains of all teams. One of the matters
> >discussed is the standard of officiating. Should any allegations of
> >bias be reported they will be investigated and dealt with.
> >
> >You are welcome to submit any examples of alleged bias.
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >David Richardson
> >General Manager - Cricket
> >
> >
> >Kind regards
> >
> >Sheila R. Razdan
> >Administration Officer - Media & Communications International Cricket
> >Council
> >TEL: +971 4 3688315
> >FAX: +971 4 3688080
> >MOB:  +971 50 636 1734
> >
> >Al Thuraya Tower 1.
> >Dubai Media City.
> >P. O .Box - 500070.
> >Dubai - U.A.E.
> >Email: sheila.razdan@...
> >www.icc-cricket.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Chetan Asher [mailto:asherca@...]
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:06 PM
> >To: icc-feedback@...
> >Subject: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> >
> >Name: Chetan Asher
> >Email address: asherca@...
> >Subject: Umpiring & Match Refereeing
> >
> >Comments:
> >Hello,
> >
> >
> >I would appreciate if you can let me have the email address of the ICC
> >officer who is supposed to manage the performance of Umpires & Match
> >Referees.
> >
> >
> >Thanks in advance & best regards,
> >Chetan A Asher,
> >Chennai - India.
> >
> >---------------------------------------------------------------
> >
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--- In bluebillionrises@..., "Chetan Asher"
<asherca@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Tata Telecom Customer Services / Emirates India,
>
> I have seen a lot of your ads on cricketing events conducted by
ICC.
>
> I have formally advised ICC management of discrimination committed
by their
> staff against Indians,
>
> Full details starting with the first mail I sent to ICC on 8th
August &
> several subsequent follow-up messages are appended below.  ICC
have not
> bothered to respond to any of the messages.
>
> As fellow Indians working for companies that spend a lot of money
sponsoring
> ICC events, appreciate
> if you could arrange for 1 of the following:
>
> 1. A formal public explaination from ICC, explaining why Indians
were
> penalised for offences that
>     were identical to / less than visible offences from cricketers
of other
> teams against whom they
>     took no action.
> 2. If no explaination is available from ICC staff who indulged in
> discrimination against Indians, ICC
>     should ensure to penalise such staff for misusing their
authority
> against Indians.
> 3. A formal explaination from ICC about how it is that "Neutral"
umpires
> from ICC almost always
>     manage to err against India & in favour of England / SA /
Australia when
> a match result is in
>     the balance, often with a sufficient volume of such errors to
change the
> course of the match.
>
> In case ICC is unwilling to address this issue suitably, I would
request you
> to use your authority to ensure that your companies stop funding
ICC-managed
> events - I am sure you would not like your brands to be linked
with an
> organisation which blatantly practices discrimination.
>
> In case you are not the right persons within Emirates / Tata
Indicom to
> address this issue, please
> forward this request to appropriate officers within your
respective
> companies.
>
> Regards,
> Chetan Asher,
> Indian.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------
> Hi,
>
> I am resending this message to Yahoo Cricket Lovers groups in
India since
> the original post bounced.
>
> Regards,
> Chetan Asher.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
> Kiran,
>
> As discussed, ICC's match referees & their "Emirates Umpires" seem
to be
> blatantly misusing their authority on the field of play to
discriminate
> against Indians.
>
> There is no response from ICC to my pleas for action against their
staff who
> are abusing their authority to discriminate against Indians.
>
> Als - no revert from Emirates in terms of what (if anything) they
will do as
> sponsors for the umpires.
> (We'll give them a few more days, probably they have not had
enough time to
> decide how they should handle something like this).
>
> The entire mail chain including the last one I sent out on 16th
August is
> appended below.
>
> Please forward this request to as many Indians as you can,
requesting all to
> back my appeal to ICC - directly & through major ICC sponsors:
>
> All Indians to request ICC to take public action against those of
their
> staff members who have misused their authority to discriminate
against
> cricketers from India.
>
> In case you have contacts with Pepsi, Tata Indicom, ESPNStar etc.
(major
> sponsors of ICC events), please educate them to the fact that ICC
staff is
> discriminating against Indians & ICC are unwilling to take
appropriate
> action against the discriminators.
> We Indians therefore understand that Discrimination against
Indians is an
> ICC policy.
> It would therefore be inappropriate for us Indians to patronise
their
> products / services if they continue to spend on advertisement
during ICC
> events.
>
> Regards,
> Chetan.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------
> Upen,
>
> Thanks for the support.  Interestingly, ICC still appear unwilling
to
> respond to my pleas to :
>
> a) advise what was different about the Indian & non-Indian's
action in the
> events highlighted below,
>     as a result of which they have chosen to penalise the Indian &
let the
> non-Indian go scott-free.
> b) initiate action against their staff who are discriminating
against
> Indians.
> c) how it is that almost all their umpires manage to err in such a
way that
> Indians have to suffer the
>     brunt of the human errors & England / Australia / SA / WI (in
matches
> involving India) always
>     benefit from Umpiring Errors.
>
> Given the fact that Emirates is one of the key sponsors for ICC
Umpires, I
> have copied this mail to
> Radhika Markan who is in charge of the Indian Sub-continent &
Africa for
> Emirates Airways in the hope that she can use her good-offices to
get
> justice for Indians from ICC.
>
> All,
>
> If any of you have contacts with Pepsi, Hero Honda, ESPN Star,
Tata Indicom
> etc. (corporates who sponsor ICC events in a big way OR
participate funding
> for ICC by giving them ads) with major interests in India, please
forward
> this message to them, requesting them to use their good offices to
ensure
> that ICC staff treats Indians fairly, also ICC penalises those of
its staff
> members who misuse their authority to discriminate against Indians.
>
> I repeat - We are not asking ICC for any special treatment.  All
we are
> saying is - ICC has to treat Indian Cricketers at par with
Australians /
> West Indians / English / South African Cricketers.
>
> Also - ICC should publicly penalise its staff members who are
guilty of
> indulging in visibly discriminatory
> behaviour.
>
> Regards,
> Chetan.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------
> >From: "upen" <upen@...>
> >Reply-To: bhatiasofchennai@yahoogroups.com
> >To:
> ><upen_ashar@...>,<upen_ashar@...>,<sandhya_upen@...>
> >CC:
>
><bcci@...>,<letters@...>,<harishdutia@...>,<hemangj@...>,<yatrik.jha
la@...>,<palejap@...>,<kaushikpalicha@...>,<jayesh-
patel@...>,<andypats@...>,<bhatiasofchennai@yahoogroups.com>,<manoj.g
oa@...>,"'Manish
> >Danani'" <manishd_2000@...>,"'virendra Mishra'"
> ><virumishra@...>,<vaibhavbagde@...>,"'srikanth iyer'"
> ><srikanthiyer@...>
> >Subject: [bhatiasofchennai] RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match
Refereeing)
> >Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:58:54 +0530
> >
> >Dear Mr Chetan,
> >
> >We appreciate your spirit to take this up with ICC and can
clearly see the
> >effort you are taking to take up the issue at the right level. We
can
> >understand your LOVE for the GAME and emotions you have for
partial
> >treatment the players of India and Indian sub-continent gets.
> >
> >I agree with you that let this chain grow to its size and the
people not
> >treating our countrymen properly cannot just take it so lightly.
> >
> >So we request every Indian , cricket lover or not, to get the
pride to the
> >nation and support our friend to reach the masses and get desired
attention
> >in interest of our dignity and self -respect. Please circulate to
as many
> >known contacts you have.
> >
> >
> >
> >Upen
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Chetan Asher [mailto:asherca@...]
> >Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:37 PM
> >To: enquiry@...
> >Cc: upen@...; bcci@...; gandhipaleja@...;
> >letters@...; harishdutia@...; hemangj@...;
> >yatrik.jhala@...; palejap@...; kaushikpalicha@...;
> >jayesh-patel@...; andypats@...; bhatiasofchennai@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> >
> >Hello ICC,
> >
> >I have no response from you to any of the mails below, including
the last
> >one dated 13th August.
> >
> >In case you are looking for evidence of double-standards against
Indians
> >from your staff,
> >here are URL's clearly documenting accurate occurances.
> >
> >1. http://www.hindu.com/2006/06/13/stories/2006061307111800.htm
> >2. http://ia.rediff.com/cricket/2003/dec/09flash.htm
> >
> >A request from an Indian to all my Indian friends who are copied
here -
> >
> >Some of you are advocates / know advocates.
> >In case there is no visible action from ICC against their staff
who have
> >discriminated against Indians, please start exploring the
possibility of
> >filing a public interest litigation in an Indian High Court to -
> >
> >a) Restrict Indian Passport holders from travelling abroad to
participate
> >in
> >
> >any ICC-managed events.
> >b) Ensure that corporates doing business in India are not allowed
to fund
> >ICC in any way.
> >     (Including, but not limited to payment for TV Rights,
advertising
> >during
> >
> >ICC-managed events et al)
> >
> >We should also look at filing a PIL against BCCI and pray for a
court order
> >to dismiss all BCCI's office bearers who have not fulfilled their
basic
> >ethical responsibility - "ensure fair treatment to Indians by
ICC".
> >
> >Chetan Asher.
> >------------------------------------------------------------------
----------
> >------------------------------------------------------------
> >Sheila,
> >
> >We are not looking for ICC to just "note" our views - In case this
> >discriminatory misbehaviour of your umpires & match referees is
not on ICC
> >orders, we expect public action against them.
> >
> >I see no reason why somebody who has abused his position for non-
cricketing
> >reasons should be given the benefit of quietly moving out.  He
should be
> >questioned / penalised in keeping with ICC standards set by
public
> >penalties
> >
> >against Indian / Pakistani players.
> >
> >Please let us Indians know what action ICC has intends to take
against
> >those
> >
> >of their paid staff members (Umpires & Match Referees) who have
been found
> >blatantly abusing their authority to discriminate against
Indians /
> >Pakistanis.
> >
> >Clarifying for ICC -
> >
> >Discrimination is
> >
> >a) application of a law against Indian offenders when the same
Law is not
> >applied against an offender from another country.
> >
> >b) Making consistent allegedly human errors that only go against
Indians on
> >the field of play.
> >      Human errors from your umpires would be treated as human
errors & not
> >commented upon if the
> >      impact of such errors evens out over a period of time.
> >      What we Indians have been observing over the last few years
is that
> >almost as a rule, if
> >       an ICC umpire can err against India at a match-defining
moment, he
> >will err.
> >      The near 100% success-rate with which umpires manage to
ensure that
> >only India suffers
> >       from their "human errors" leaves us reasonably certain
that those
> >were
> >
> >not human errors.
> >
> >All my Indian Friends,
> >
> >Please support my request to ICC for public action against their
staff who
> >misuse their authority
> >to discriminate against Indians.
> >
> >Start by sending emails to ICC whom I have addressed this mail
to.  Also
> >spread the word among
> >your contacts to support our "Be Fair to Indians" demand.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Chetan Asher.
> >------------------------------------------------------------------
----------
> >--------------------------------------------
> > >From: "Enquiry" <enquiry@...>
> > >To: "Chetan Asher" <asherca@...>
> > >Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> > >Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:04:17 +0400
> > >
> > >Dear Chetan
> > >
> > >Thank you for your email. Your comments are duly noted.
> > >
> > >Kind regards
> > >
> > >Sheila R. Razdan
> > >Administration Officer - Media & Communications
> > >International Cricket Council
> > >TEL: +971 4 3688315
> > >FAX: +971 4 3688080
> > >MOB:  +971 50 636 1734
> > >
> > >Al Thuraya Tower 1.
> > >Dubai Media City.
> > >P. O .Box - 500070.
> > >Dubai - U.A.E.
> > >Email: sheila.razdan@...
> > >www.icc-cricket.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Chetan Asher [mailto:asherca@...]
> > >Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 7:11 PM
> > >To: Enquiry
> > >Cc: bcci@...; gandhipaleja@...; letters@...;
> > >hemangi.k@...; umihumed@...; macwan_denny@...;
> > >shyamvilla@...; abhishek@...; vasanthi@...;
> > >aarsu4@...; niraj.doshi@...; harishdutia@...;
> > >hari.nair@...; ganesh.chennai@...; bipin@...;
> > >customer.care@...; hemangj@...;
> > >jetprivilege@...; yari88@...; yatrik.jhala@...;
> > >ajogani@...; shyam.kotak@...; shmodi@...;
> > >Monica@...; palejap@...; kaushikpalicha@...;
> > >giriraj18@...; jayesh-patel@...; andypats@...;
> > >cprohit@...; hamir@...; zaveri.sailesh@...;
> > >rakshita_zaveri1988@...
> > >Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> > >
> > >David,
> > >
> > >Ian Howell continues to play for England in this test match.
Paul
> > >Collingwood of England was out plumb LBW to such an extent that
if that
> > >cannot be given out, the LBW law should be scrapped.
> > >
> > >Howell has abused his authority to give Collingwood 2nd batting
> > >yesterday.
> > >Subsequently he has
> > >today given Wasim Jaffer of India out LBW again when the ball
was
> > >missing the top of the stumps by at least 6 inches.  The ball
had hit
> > >Jaffer way over the Knee roll.
> > >
> > >In case we do not see you coming out publicly against 1. Mr
Madugalle
> > >your match referee who was at berst lethargic on his paid job -
> > >Hooliganly Englishmen have not been penalised for behaviour
that is
> > >blatantly not in keeping with the spirit of cricket AND 2. Ian
Howell
> > >who seems to be the star of the English side.
> > >
> > >All my Indian Friends -
> > >
> > >We have not seen ICC even attempting to take any action against
their
> > >paid staff who are abusing their authority to show Indians
inferior to
> > >than what they actually are.
> > >
> > >Allegedly neutral umpire, Ian Howell is doing his best to win
the Oval
> > >Test for England.  He has till date made 5 errors at the Oval,
all
> > >favouring England.  I do not believe these are human errors.
> > >
> > >Match Referee Ranjan Madugalle has chosen to take action
against an
> > >Indian for "bringing the game to disrepute", but is not seen
levying the
> > >same charge on Englishmen whose behaviour on the field of play
was
> > >visibly worse.
> > >
> > >I appeal to all of you, stop patronising products of any
corporate that
> > >sponsors ICC events.
> > >I see no reason why we Indians should do anything that results
in money
> > >for an organisation that keeps discriminating against Indians.
> > >
> > >Please pass on this request to all Indian cricket lovers that
you know.
> > >
> > >Hindu,
> > >
> > >I would appreciate if you could publish this appeal on behalf
of an
> > >Indian who is pained by ICC's consistent discrimination against
Indians
> > >& BCCI's unwillingness / inability to take action against ICC.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Chetan Asher.
> > >----------------------------------------------------------------
--------
> > >--------------------------------------------------
> > >Hello David,
> > >
> > >Even as we are discussing the blatant discrimination against
Indians by
> > >your staff, Ian Howe has continued his brilliant performance for
> > >England.
> > >
> > >Sourav Ganguly was not out for everyone except Ian Howe.
> > >To compensate one human error favouring a bowler, Howe declared
James
> > >Anderson, an Englishman NOT OUT when he was out to the whole
world.
> > >
> > >I repeat something I have stated earlier - Indians may be
expected to
> > >suffer the odd human error from umpires.  However, genuine
human errors
> > >over a period of time level out.
> > >
> > >I do not see any level out & the volume of errors against Indian
> > >cricketers from your umpires as well as match referees only
continues to
> > >grow.
> > >
> > >BCCI -
> > >
> > >I have no revert for action against ICC staff who are misusing
thier
> > >position to ensure that Indians appear inferior to "Select"
teams, not
> > >even a will reply in ... days.
> > >
> > >What is worse, his staff have continued their "Hit India" ways
with an
> > >unreasonably large volume of one-sided "human errors" (as they
would
> > >like Indians to believe, though knowing otherwise).
> > >The paid match referee remembers cricketing behaviour when Sree
Santh of
> > >India can be blamed.
> > >Cricketing decorum is not broken when
> > >Matt Prior the entire English slip cordon are obviously saints,
Jelly
> > >Beans which were meant to disturb the equilibrium of Indian
batsmen grew
> > >on the cricket pitch.
> > >There was no visible dissent in Englishmen sending a message
back to
> > >Simon Tauffel basis which he asked for a TV replay & reversed
what I
> > >consider the only genuine human error in this series, allowing
KP to
> > >continue batting (I wonder if the match referee would have gone
to sleep
> > >the way he did if KP was replaced with Sachin / Ganguly).
> > >
> > >Leaves me thinking that
> > >
> > >a) ICC are suffering Indians only for our money.
> > >b) Umpires & match referees have probably been ordered to pitch
in
> > >against
> > >     "bloody brown Indians" if Indians start playing well
enough to beat
> > >"select teams".
> > >      Remember - Bowden at Bangalore, he single-handedly won
the test
> > >match for an ICC
> > >      favoured Australia, 4 "human errors" all against India.
> > >      Only Rahul Dravid of India was "unfortunate" to be
declared out
> > >twice at Durban & SA won the
> > >      test match.
> > >      During the current series, there have been 4 / 5 alleged
human
> > >errors from ICC's umpires.
> > >      No prizes for guessing - all batsmen "unfortunate" to be
declared
> > >out are Indians.  All
> > >      batsmen "Fortunate" to survive close decisions are
Englishmen.
> > >
> > >After all, Bloody Brown Indians should not be seen better than
even
> > >incompetent "select" teams.
> > >
> > >ICC is obviously treating your refusal to pick a public fight
with them
> > >in response to this kind of anti-Indian discriminatory
behaviour from
> > >their staff as a weakness they can exploit to loot Indians AND
show us
> > >as gutless fools.
> > >
> > >Remember - ICC's track record -
> > >Sri Lanka suffered a lot of human errors & harrasment from
ICC's umpires
> > >till Arjuna Ranatunga brought in a couple of lawyers when the
> > >Australians tried to mis-use their umpires to get rid of
Murali.  Once
> > >Sri Lanka picked a fight, Murali was suddenly fine.
> > >Similarly - Shoaib Akhtar's bouncer was a faulty action till PCB
> > >produced TV replays proving that his action was identical to
Brett Lee
> > >of Australia.
> > >Once this was proved, the law governing bowling action was
rectified.
> > >Virender Sehwag of India taking 2 / 3 steps in the general
direction of
> > >an Umpire was considered "threatening" & he was awarded a 1
testmatch
> > >ban.
> > >Please remind us of any action taken by ICC's allegedly neutral
match
> > >referee against Brian Charles Lara of WI who clearly walked
upto the
> > >umpire, abusing him & snatched the ball from him.
> > >Threat & dissent were both visible to all normal human beings,
but
> > >remind us of any action taken by ICC against Lara.
> > >
> > >If you have any sense of self-respect left you should resign
your ICC
> > >membership on grounds of discrimination & mistreatment of Indian
> > >participants by ICC staff.
> > >
> > >Do not spoil India's name & image just for some money that you
will be
> > >able to control as an ICC member.
> > >
> > >In fact, there is so much love for Cricket in India that if you
resign
> > >your ICC membership & get into managing domestic cricket, you
will
> > >probably have all the money you want to control from Domestic
cricket
> > >alone.
> > >
> > >Also - we Indian cricket lovers would respect you more for
standing-up
> > >for India & Indians rather than taking visibly discriminatory
treatment
> > >against Indians by ICC lying down.
> > >
> > >Thanks in advance for being Indian.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Chetan Asher.
> > >----------------------------------------------------------------
--------
> > >--------------------------------------------------------
> > >Hello David,
> > >
> > >I have sent the below mails to your attention on 8th & 9th
August.
> > >Would appreciate a revert on these.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Chetan Asher
> > >Indian Cricket Lover.
> > >----------------------------------------------------------------
--------
> > >----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >Hello David,
> > >
> > >I have no response from you to the below mail.
> > >
> > >What is worse - your umpires continue to help England.  The
same man has
> > >already given 2 Indians out "erraneously" - Dinesh Karthik &
Saurav
> > >Ganguly's wickets were gifted to incompetent English bowlers by
ICC's
> > >umpires.
> > >
> > >That makes a count of 5 human errors from your umpires against
India in
> > >this series alone.
> > >
> > >The only error against England invited an argument from the
English
> > >dressing room, in response to which the umpire promptly called
for a TV
> > >replay & reversed that error.
> > >
> > >We are yet to hear of the match referee taking any action
against the
> > >Englishmen for what they did.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Chetan.
> > >----------------------------------------------------------------
--------
> > >---------------------------------------------------------
> > >Hello David,
> > >
> > >Below examples that come to mind off the cuff:
> > >
> > >1. Virender Sehwag of India was levied a 1 test match ban when
he took 3
> > >/ 4 steps in the general direction of the umpire a few years
ago, the
> > >allegation
> > >- he is threatening the umpire.
> > >BCCI's appeal for review was also turned down, clearly laying a
> > >standard.
> > >Same standard was not followed in a recent incident - I am
unable to
> > >find any action by ICC's umpires / match referees against Brian
Lara
> > >when WI appealed for Dhoni's wicket recently & the umpires gave
Dhoni 6
> > >!  Lara visibly walked upto the umpires in rage, abused them &
snatched
> > >the ball from their hand.
> > >2. I recollect several Indian fielders charged with violation
of varios
> > >ICC laws when they celebrated the fall of a wicket, but am
unable to
> > >find any record of action taken against Glen McGrath for the
abuse &
> > >visible pointing to the dressing room he did on the field of
play after
> > >getting Sachin's wicket a few years ago.
> > >3. I recollect a whole host of Indian cricketers penalised for
showing
> > >dissent - Sehwag at Bangalore for pointing to his bat when he
had
> > >actually nicked the ball & Bowden gave him out LBW, Harbhajan
in one of
> > >the Sharjah series because somebody saw a look of dissent in
his eyes !
> > >the list could go on
> > >
> > >I am unable to find anything action against
> > >a) Lara for walking upto the on-field umpires in visible anger &
> > >snatching the ball from the umpire
> > >b) Kevin Peterson & the English cricket management in the recent
> > >incident when Simon Tauffel gave Kevin out caught behind & a
message
> > >came in from the english dressing room basis which Simon
Tauffel asked
> > >for a replay & revised his decision.
> > >c) Fleming (I think) from Australia who actually stamped his
feet on the
> > >ground like a kid throwing a tantrum when he appealed for LBW
against
> > >Sachin & the umpire ruled Sachin Not out.  This was during the
same
> > >tournament where Harbhajan Singh of India was accused for
dissent for
> > >looking at the umpire !  In fact, during the post-match
conference, the
> > >match referee had cheekily asked media reporters "what dissent"
when
> > >they asked him what action he intended to take against Fleming
for
> > >showing dissent.
> > >d) The guilty Englishmen for Visible harrasment of Indian
batsmen
> > >through- Matt Prior's lip service & Jelly beans on the field of
play
> > >with a view to harrassing the Indian Batsmen, all discussed
very widely
> > >in the media.
> > >e) The unfair use of Squash balls / graphite bats by Australian
batsmen
> > >to win World Cup finals.  I know this is not disallowed
explicitly.
> > >However, given the fact that this kind of tactics are not in
keeping
> > >with the spirit of cricket, ICC should have taken action
against the
> > >offenders under Clause
> > >C1 "Conduct Contrary to the Spirit of the Game", instead of
allowing the
> > >beneficiaries to claim a World Cup title.
> > >f) Keppler Wessels of SA who actually hit Kapil Dev of India
with his
> > >bat on the field of play.  The match referee openly refused to
take any
> > >action against the offender since the SACB was unable to
provide a
> > >replay tapes (as reported in the media).
> > >
> > >What we have sighted is a sledge-hammer when cricketers of
Indian /
> > >Pakistani origin are at fault to the extent of blatantly re-
defining
> > >technicalities - Sachin Tendulkar of India was accused of ball-
tampering
> > >when all he had done was clean the ball, even after the ball
showed no
> > >evidence of being tampered with on one of India's tours of SA.
> > >
> > >AND Negligible / no action when cricketers from other teams are
> > >involved.
> > >
> > >There might be more than meets the eye in incidents where match
referees
> > >have chosen to go soft, but there is no public explaination
along the
> > >lines.
> > >This leaves us to draw our own conclusions.  My assumption of
> > >discrimination is based on the fact that all cricketers on whom
match
> > >referees have gone soft are either white OR WI.  All cricketers
hit hard
> > >by ICC match referees are Indians / Pakistanis.
> > >
> > >When this is added to the below observations -
> > >
> > >1.  4 human errors from Billy Bowden in an India Vs Australia
test match
> > >at Bangalore all favouring Australia & Australia won that match.
> > >2. Rahul Dravid of India declared incorrectly out twice at
Durban & SA
> > >won the test match to level the series.
> > >3. Rahul Dravid of India again declared incorrectly out at
Lord's on the
> > >4th day..fortunately for India, rain intervened on the 5th day
when
> > >England had all but won the test match.
> > >4. Sachin Tendulkar & Saurav Ganguly of India given out
incorrectly in
> > >the 2nd test match between India & England, which did not
matter in the
> > >overall result thanks to Zaheer Khan's exceptional bowling in
the
> > >English 2nd innings.
> > >
> > >Across a more than 2 year window, I am unable to locate the
even-out in
> > >terms of match-defining human errors from umpires that resulted
in
> > >victories for India against Australia / SA / England.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Chetan Asher.
> > >----------------------------------------------------------------
--------
> > >---------------------------------------------------
> > > >From: "Enquiry" <enquiry@...>
> > > >To: "Chetan Asher" <asherca@...>
> > > >Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> > > >Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:31:29 +0400
> > > >
> > > >Dear Chetan
> > > >
> > > >I refer to your email which has been referred to me for my
attention
> > > >and reply.
> > > >
> > > >All decisions made by the umpires and referees are
independently
> > > >assessed and noted. At the conclusion of every match the
captains from
> > > >both teams have the opportunity to report on the match
officials. I
> > > >also regularly meet with the captains of all teams. One of
the matters
> > > >discussed is the standard of officiating. Should any
allegations of
> > > >bias be reported they will be investigated and dealt with.
> > > >
> > > >You are welcome to submit any examples of alleged bias.
> > > >
> > > >Regards
> > > >
> > > >David Richardson
> > > >General Manager - Cricket
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Kind regards
> > > >
> > > >Sheila R. Razdan
> > > >Administration Officer - Media & Communications International
Cricket
> > > >Council
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> > > >FAX: +971 4 3688080
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> > > >www.icc-cricket.com
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > >From: Chetan Asher [mailto:asherca@...]
> > > >Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:06 PM
> > > >To: icc-feedback@...
> > > >Subject: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> > > >
> > > >Name: Chetan Asher
> > > >Email address: asherca@...
> > > >Subject: Umpiring & Match Refereeing
> > > >
> > > >Comments:
> > > >Hello,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >I would appreciate if you can let me have the email address
of the ICC
> > > >officer who is supposed to manage the performance of Umpires
& Match
> > > >Referees.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Thanks in advance & best regards,
> > > >Chetan A Asher,
> > > >Chennai - India.
> > > >
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>THEY DONT KNOW THE VALUE OF INDIANS

Hello Tata Telecom Customer Services / Emirates India,

I have seen a lot of your ads on cricketing events conducted by ICC.

I have formally advised ICC management of discrimination committed by their
staff against Indians,

Full details starting with the first mail I sent to ICC on 8th August &
several subsequent follow-up messages are appended below.  ICC have not
bothered to respond to any of the messages.

As fellow Indians working for companies that spend a lot of money sponsoring
ICC events, appreciate
if you could arrange for 1 of the following:

1. A formal public explaination from ICC, explaining why Indians were
penalised for offences that
     were identical to / less than visible offences from cricketers of other
teams against whom they
     took no action.
2. If no explaination is available from ICC staff who indulged in
discrimination against Indians, ICC
     should ensure to penalise such staff for misusing their authority
against Indians.
3. A formal explaination from ICC about how it is that "Neutral" umpires
from ICC almost always
     manage to err against India & in favour of England / SA / Australia when
a match result is in
     the balance, often with a sufficient volume of such errors to change the
course of the match.

In case ICC is unwilling to address this issue suitably, I would request you
to use your authority to ensure that your companies stop funding ICC-managed
events - I am sure you would not like your brands to be linked with an
organisation which blatantly practices discrimination.

In case you are not the right persons within Emirates / Tata Indicom to
address this issue, please
forward this request to appropriate officers within your respective
companies.

Regards,
Chetan Asher,
Indian.
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Hi,

I am resending this message to Yahoo Cricket Lovers groups in India since
the original post bounced.

Regards,
Chetan Asher.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
-------------------------------------
Kiran,

As discussed, ICC's match referees & their "Emirates Umpires" seem to be
blatantly misusing their authority on the field of play to discriminate
against Indians.

There is no response from ICC to my pleas for action against their staff who
are abusing their authority to discriminate against Indians.

Als - no revert from Emirates in terms of what (if anything) they will do as
sponsors for the umpires.
(We'll give them a few more days, probably they have not had enough time to
decide how they should handle something like this).

The entire mail chain including the last one I sent out on 16th August is
appended below.

Please forward this request to as many Indians as you can, requesting all to
back my appeal to ICC - directly & through major ICC sponsors:

All Indians to request ICC to take public action against those of their
staff members who have misused their authority to discriminate against
cricketers from India.

In case you have contacts with Pepsi, Tata Indicom, ESPNStar etc. (major
sponsors of ICC events), please educate them to the fact that ICC staff is
discriminating against Indians & ICC are unwilling to take appropriate
action against the discriminators.
We Indians therefore understand that Discrimination against Indians is an
ICC policy.
It would therefore be inappropriate for us Indians to patronise their
products / services if they continue to spend on advertisement during ICC
events.

Regards,
Chetan.
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Upen,

Thanks for the support.  Interestingly, ICC still appear unwilling to
respond to my pleas to :

a) advise what was different about the Indian & non-Indian's action in the
events highlighted below,
     as a result of which they have chosen to penalise the Indian & let the
non-Indian go scott-free.
b) initiate action against their staff who are discriminating against
Indians.
c) how it is that almost all their umpires manage to err in such a way that
Indians have to suffer the
     brunt of the human errors & England / Australia / SA / WI (in matches
involving India) always
     benefit from Umpiring Errors.

Given the fact that Emirates is one of the key sponsors for ICC Umpires, I
have copied this mail to
Radhika Markan who is in charge of the Indian Sub-continent & Africa for
Emirates Airways in the hope that she can use her good-offices to get
justice for Indians from ICC.

All,

If any of you have contacts with Pepsi, Hero Honda, ESPN Star, Tata Indicom
etc. (corporates who sponsor ICC events in a big way OR participate funding
for ICC by giving them ads) with major interests in India, please forward
this message to them, requesting them to use their good offices to ensure
that ICC staff treats Indians fairly, also ICC penalises those of its staff
members who misuse their authority to discriminate against Indians.

I repeat - We are not asking ICC for any special treatment.  All we are
saying is - ICC has to treat Indian Cricketers at par with Australians /
West Indians / English / South African Cricketers.

Also - ICC should publicly penalise its staff members who are guilty of
indulging in visibly discriminatory
behaviour.

Regards,
Chetan.
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>From: "upen" <upen@...>
>Reply-To: bhatiasofchennai@yahoogroups.com
>To:
><upen_ashar@...>,<upen_ashar@...>,<sandhya_upen@...>
>CC:
><bcci@...>,<letters@...>,<harishdutia@...>,<hemangj@vsnl.\
com>,<yatrik.jhala@...>,<palejap@...>,<kaushikpalicha@...\
g>,<jayesh-patel@...>,<andypats@...>,<bhatiasofchennai@yahoogroups.com>\
,<manoj.goa@...>,"'Manish
>Danani'" <manishd_2000@...>,"'virendra Mishra'"
><virumishra@...>,<vaibhavbagde@...>,"'srikanth iyer'"
><srikanthiyer@...>
>Subject: [bhatiasofchennai] RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
>Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:58:54 +0530
>
>Dear Mr Chetan,
>
>We appreciate your spirit to take this up with ICC and can clearly see the
>effort you are taking to take up the issue at the right level. We can
>understand your LOVE for the GAME and emotions you have for partial
>treatment the players of India and Indian sub-continent gets.
>
>I agree with you that let this chain grow to its size and the people not
>treating our countrymen properly cannot just take it so lightly.
>
>So we request every Indian , cricket lover or not, to get the pride to the
>nation and support our friend to reach the masses and get desired attention
>in interest of our dignity and self -respect. Please circulate to as many
>known contacts you have.
>
>
>
>Upen
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chetan Asher [mailto:asherca@...]
>Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:37 PM
>To: enquiry@...
>Cc: upen@...; bcci@...; gandhipaleja@...;
>letters@...; harishdutia@...; hemangj@...;
>yatrik.jhala@...; palejap@...; kaushikpalicha@...;
>jayesh-patel@...; andypats@...; bhatiasofchennai@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
>
>Hello ICC,
>
>I have no response from you to any of the mails below, including the last
>one dated 13th August.
>
>In case you are looking for evidence of double-standards against Indians
>from your staff,
>here are URL's clearly documenting accurate occurances.
>
>1. http://www.hindu.com/2006/06/13/stories/2006061307111800.htm
>2. http://ia.rediff.com/cricket/2003/dec/09flash.htm
>
>A request from an Indian to all my Indian friends who are copied here -
>
>Some of you are advocates / know advocates.
>In case there is no visible action from ICC against their staff who have
>discriminated against Indians, please start exploring the possibility of
>filing a public interest litigation in an Indian High Court to -
>
>a) Restrict Indian Passport holders from travelling abroad to participate
>in
>
>any ICC-managed events.
>b) Ensure that corporates doing business in India are not allowed to fund
>ICC in any way.
>     (Including, but not limited to payment for TV Rights, advertising
>during
>
>ICC-managed events et al)
>
>We should also look at filing a PIL against BCCI and pray for a court order
>to dismiss all BCCI's office bearers who have not fulfilled their basic
>ethical responsibility - "ensure fair treatment to Indians by ICC".
>
>Chetan Asher.
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>------------------------------------------------------------
>Sheila,
>
>We are not looking for ICC to just "note" our views - In case this
>discriminatory misbehaviour of your umpires & match referees is not on ICC
>orders, we expect public action against them.
>
>I see no reason why somebody who has abused his position for non-cricketing
>reasons should be given the benefit of quietly moving out.  He should be
>questioned / penalised in keeping with ICC standards set by public
>penalties
>
>against Indian / Pakistani players.
>
>Please let us Indians know what action ICC has intends to take against
>those
>
>of their paid staff members (Umpires & Match Referees) who have been found
>blatantly abusing their authority to discriminate against Indians /
>Pakistanis.
>
>Clarifying for ICC -
>
>Discrimination is
>
>a) application of a law against Indian offenders when the same Law is not
>applied against an offender from another country.
>
>b) Making consistent allegedly human errors that only go against Indians on
>the field of play.
>      Human errors from your umpires would be treated as human errors & not
>commented upon if the
>      impact of such errors evens out over a period of time.
>      What we Indians have been observing over the last few years is that
>almost as a rule, if
>       an ICC umpire can err against India at a match-defining moment, he
>will err.
>      The near 100% success-rate with which umpires manage to ensure that
>only India suffers
>       from their "human errors" leaves us reasonably certain that those
>were
>
>not human errors.
>
>All my Indian Friends,
>
>Please support my request to ICC for public action against their staff who
>misuse their authority
>to discriminate against Indians.
>
>Start by sending emails to ICC whom I have addressed this mail to.  Also
>spread the word among
>your contacts to support our "Be Fair to Indians" demand.
>
>Regards,
>Chetan Asher.
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------------------------------------------
> >From: "Enquiry" <enquiry@...>
> >To: "Chetan Asher" <asherca@...>
> >Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> >Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:04:17 +0400
> >
> >Dear Chetan
> >
> >Thank you for your email. Your comments are duly noted.
> >
> >Kind regards
> >
> >Sheila R. Razdan
> >Administration Officer - Media & Communications
> >International Cricket Council
> >TEL: +971 4 3688315
> >FAX: +971 4 3688080
> >MOB:  +971 50 636 1734
> >
> >Al Thuraya Tower 1.
> >Dubai Media City.
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Chetan Asher [mailto:asherca@...]
> >Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 7:11 PM
> >To: Enquiry
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> >Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> >
> >David,
> >
> >Ian Howell continues to play for England in this test match.  Paul
> >Collingwood of England was out plumb LBW to such an extent that if that
> >cannot be given out, the LBW law should be scrapped.
> >
> >Howell has abused his authority to give Collingwood 2nd batting
> >yesterday.
> >Subsequently he has
> >today given Wasim Jaffer of India out LBW again when the ball was
> >missing the top of the stumps by at least 6 inches.  The ball had hit
> >Jaffer way over the Knee roll.
> >
> >In case we do not see you coming out publicly against 1. Mr Madugalle
> >your match referee who was at berst lethargic on his paid job -
> >Hooliganly Englishmen have not been penalised for behaviour that is
> >blatantly not in keeping with the spirit of cricket AND 2. Ian Howell
> >who seems to be the star of the English side.
> >
> >All my Indian Friends -
> >
> >We have not seen ICC even attempting to take any action against their
> >paid staff who are abusing their authority to show Indians inferior to
> >than what they actually are.
> >
> >Allegedly neutral umpire, Ian Howell is doing his best to win the Oval
> >Test for England.  He has till date made 5 errors at the Oval, all
> >favouring England.  I do not believe these are human errors.
> >
> >Match Referee Ranjan Madugalle has chosen to take action against an
> >Indian for "bringing the game to disrepute", but is not seen levying the
> >same charge on Englishmen whose behaviour on the field of play was
> >visibly worse.
> >
> >I appeal to all of you, stop patronising products of any corporate that
> >sponsors ICC events.
> >I see no reason why we Indians should do anything that results in money
> >for an organisation that keeps discriminating against Indians.
> >
> >Please pass on this request to all Indian cricket lovers that you know.
> >
> >Hindu,
> >
> >I would appreciate if you could publish this appeal on behalf of an
> >Indian who is pained by ICC's consistent discrimination against Indians
> >& BCCI's unwillingness / inability to take action against ICC.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Chetan Asher.
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >--------------------------------------------------
> >Hello David,
> >
> >Even as we are discussing the blatant discrimination against Indians by
> >your staff, Ian Howe has continued his brilliant performance for
> >England.
> >
> >Sourav Ganguly was not out for everyone except Ian Howe.
> >To compensate one human error favouring a bowler, Howe declared James
> >Anderson, an Englishman NOT OUT when he was out to the whole world.
> >
> >I repeat something I have stated earlier - Indians may be expected to
> >suffer the odd human error from umpires.  However, genuine human errors
> >over a period of time level out.
> >
> >I do not see any level out & the volume of errors against Indian
> >cricketers from your umpires as well as match referees only continues to
> >grow.
> >
> >BCCI -
> >
> >I have no revert for action against ICC staff who are misusing thier
> >position to ensure that Indians appear inferior to "Select" teams, not
> >even a will reply in ... days.
> >
> >What is worse, his staff have continued their "Hit India" ways with an
> >unreasonably large volume of one-sided "human errors" (as they would
> >like Indians to believe, though knowing otherwise).
> >The paid match referee remembers cricketing behaviour when Sree Santh of
> >India can be blamed.
> >Cricketing decorum is not broken when
> >Matt Prior the entire English slip cordon are obviously saints, Jelly
> >Beans which were meant to disturb the equilibrium of Indian batsmen grew
> >on the cricket pitch.
> >There was no visible dissent in Englishmen sending a message back to
> >Simon Tauffel basis which he asked for a TV replay & reversed what I
> >consider the only genuine human error in this series, allowing KP to
> >continue batting (I wonder if the match referee would have gone to sleep
> >the way he did if KP was replaced with Sachin / Ganguly).
> >
> >Leaves me thinking that
> >
> >a) ICC are suffering Indians only for our money.
> >b) Umpires & match referees have probably been ordered to pitch in
> >against
> >     "bloody brown Indians" if Indians start playing well enough to beat
> >"select teams".
> >      Remember - Bowden at Bangalore, he single-handedly won the test
> >match for an ICC
> >      favoured Australia, 4 "human errors" all against India.
> >      Only Rahul Dravid of India was "unfortunate" to be declared out
> >twice at Durban & SA won the
> >      test match.
> >      During the current series, there have been 4 / 5 alleged human
> >errors from ICC's umpires.
> >      No prizes for guessing - all batsmen "unfortunate" to be declared
> >out are Indians.  All
> >      batsmen "Fortunate" to survive close decisions are Englishmen.
> >
> >After all, Bloody Brown Indians should not be seen better than even
> >incompetent "select" teams.
> >
> >ICC is obviously treating your refusal to pick a public fight with them
> >in response to this kind of anti-Indian discriminatory behaviour from
> >their staff as a weakness they can exploit to loot Indians AND show us
> >as gutless fools.
> >
> >Remember - ICC's track record -
> >Sri Lanka suffered a lot of human errors & harrasment from ICC's umpires
> >till Arjuna Ranatunga brought in a couple of lawyers when the
> >Australians tried to mis-use their umpires to get rid of Murali.  Once
> >Sri Lanka picked a fight, Murali was suddenly fine.
> >Similarly - Shoaib Akhtar's bouncer was a faulty action till PCB
> >produced TV replays proving that his action was identical to Brett Lee
> >of Australia.
> >Once this was proved, the law governing bowling action was rectified.
> >Virender Sehwag of India taking 2 / 3 steps in the general direction of
> >an Umpire was considered "threatening" & he was awarded a 1 testmatch
> >ban.
> >Please remind us of any action taken by ICC's allegedly neutral match
> >referee against Brian Charles Lara of WI who clearly walked upto the
> >umpire, abusing him & snatched the ball from him.
> >Threat & dissent were both visible to all normal human beings, but
> >remind us of any action taken by ICC against Lara.
> >
> >If you have any sense of self-respect left you should resign your ICC
> >membership on grounds of discrimination & mistreatment of Indian
> >participants by ICC staff.
> >
> >Do not spoil India's name & image just for some money that you will be
> >able to control as an ICC member.
> >
> >In fact, there is so much love for Cricket in India that if you resign
> >your ICC membership & get into managing domestic cricket, you will
> >probably have all the money you want to control from Domestic cricket
> >alone.
> >
> >Also - we Indian cricket lovers would respect you more for standing-up
> >for India & Indians rather than taking visibly discriminatory treatment
> >against Indians by ICC lying down.
> >
> >Thanks in advance for being Indian.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Chetan Asher.
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >--------------------------------------------------------
> >Hello David,
> >
> >I have sent the below mails to your attention on 8th & 9th August.
> >Would appreciate a revert on these.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Chetan Asher
> >Indian Cricket Lover.
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >----------------------------------------------------------------
> >Hello David,
> >
> >I have no response from you to the below mail.
> >
> >What is worse - your umpires continue to help England.  The same man has
> >already given 2 Indians out "erraneously" - Dinesh Karthik & Saurav
> >Ganguly's wickets were gifted to incompetent English bowlers by ICC's
> >umpires.
> >
> >That makes a count of 5 human errors from your umpires against India in
> >this series alone.
> >
> >The only error against England invited an argument from the English
> >dressing room, in response to which the umpire promptly called for a TV
> >replay & reversed that error.
> >
> >We are yet to hear of the match referee taking any action against the
> >Englishmen for what they did.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Chetan.
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >---------------------------------------------------------
> >Hello David,
> >
> >Below examples that come to mind off the cuff:
> >
> >1. Virender Sehwag of India was levied a 1 test match ban when he took 3
> >/ 4 steps in the general direction of the umpire a few years ago, the
> >allegation
> >- he is threatening the umpire.
> >BCCI's appeal for review was also turned down, clearly laying a
> >standard.
> >Same standard was not followed in a recent incident - I am unable to
> >find any action by ICC's umpires / match referees against Brian Lara
> >when WI appealed for Dhoni's wicket recently & the umpires gave Dhoni 6
> >!  Lara visibly walked upto the umpires in rage, abused them & snatched
> >the ball from their hand.
> >2. I recollect several Indian fielders charged with violation of varios
> >ICC laws when they celebrated the fall of a wicket, but am unable to
> >find any record of action taken against Glen McGrath for the abuse &
> >visible pointing to the dressing room he did on the field of play after
> >getting Sachin's wicket a few years ago.
> >3. I recollect a whole host of Indian cricketers penalised for showing
> >dissent - Sehwag at Bangalore for pointing to his bat when he had
> >actually nicked the ball & Bowden gave him out LBW, Harbhajan in one of
> >the Sharjah series because somebody saw a look of dissent in his eyes !
> >the list could go on
> >
> >I am unable to find anything action against
> >a) Lara for walking upto the on-field umpires in visible anger &
> >snatching the ball from the umpire
> >b) Kevin Peterson & the English cricket management in the recent
> >incident when Simon Tauffel gave Kevin out caught behind & a message
> >came in from the english dressing room basis which Simon Tauffel asked
> >for a replay & revised his decision.
> >c) Fleming (I think) from Australia who actually stamped his feet on the
> >ground like a kid throwing a tantrum when he appealed for LBW against
> >Sachin & the umpire ruled Sachin Not out.  This was during the same
> >tournament where Harbhajan Singh of India was accused for dissent for
> >looking at the umpire !  In fact, during the post-match conference, the
> >match referee had cheekily asked media reporters "what dissent" when
> >they asked him what action he intended to take against Fleming for
> >showing dissent.
> >d) The guilty Englishmen for Visible harrasment of Indian batsmen
> >through- Matt Prior's lip service & Jelly beans on the field of play
> >with a view to harrassing the Indian Batsmen, all discussed very widely
> >in the media.
> >e) The unfair use of Squash balls / graphite bats by Australian batsmen
> >to win World Cup finals.  I know this is not disallowed explicitly.
> >However, given the fact that this kind of tactics are not in keeping
> >with the spirit of cricket, ICC should have taken action against the
> >offenders under Clause
> >C1 "Conduct Contrary to the Spirit of the Game", instead of allowing the
> >beneficiaries to claim a World Cup title.
> >f) Keppler Wessels of SA who actually hit Kapil Dev of India with his
> >bat on the field of play.  The match referee openly refused to take any
> >action against the offender since the SACB was unable to provide a
> >replay tapes (as reported in the media).
> >
> >What we have sighted is a sledge-hammer when cricketers of Indian /
> >Pakistani origin are at fault to the extent of blatantly re-defining
> >technicalities - Sachin Tendulkar of India was accused of ball-tampering
> >when all he had done was clean the ball, even after the ball showed no
> >evidence of being tampered with on one of India's tours of SA.
> >
> >AND Negligible / no action when cricketers from other teams are
> >involved.
> >
> >There might be more than meets the eye in incidents where match referees
> >have chosen to go soft, but there is no public explaination along the
> >lines.
> >This leaves us to draw our own conclusions.  My assumption of
> >discrimination is based on the fact that all cricketers on whom match
> >referees have gone soft are either white OR WI.  All cricketers hit hard
> >by ICC match referees are Indians / Pakistanis.
> >
> >When this is added to the below observations -
> >
> >1.  4 human errors from Billy Bowden in an India Vs Australia test match
> >at Bangalore all favouring Australia & Australia won that match.
> >2. Rahul Dravid of India declared incorrectly out twice at Durban & SA
> >won the test match to level the series.
> >3. Rahul Dravid of India again declared incorrectly out at Lord's on the
> >4th day..fortunately for India, rain intervened on the 5th day when
> >England had all but won the test match.
> >4. Sachin Tendulkar & Saurav Ganguly of India given out incorrectly in
> >the 2nd test match between India & England, which did not matter in the
> >overall result thanks to Zaheer Khan's exceptional bowling in the
> >English 2nd innings.
> >
> >Across a more than 2 year window, I am unable to locate the even-out in
> >terms of match-defining human errors from umpires that resulted in
> >victories for India against Australia / SA / England.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Chetan Asher.
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >---------------------------------------------------
> > >From: "Enquiry" <enquiry@...>
> > >To: "Chetan Asher" <asherca@...>
> > >Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> > >Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:31:29 +0400
> > >
> > >Dear Chetan
> > >
> > >I refer to your email which has been referred to me for my attention
> > >and reply.
> > >
> > >All decisions made by the umpires and referees are independently
> > >assessed and noted. At the conclusion of every match the captains from
> > >both teams have the opportunity to report on the match officials. I
> > >also regularly meet with the captains of all teams. One of the matters
> > >discussed is the standard of officiating. Should any allegations of
> > >bias be reported they will be investigated and dealt with.
> > >
> > >You are welcome to submit any examples of alleged bias.
> > >
> > >Regards
> > >
> > >David Richardson
> > >General Manager - Cricket
> > >
> > >
> > >Kind regards
> > >
> > >Sheila R. Razdan
> > >Administration Officer - Media & Communications International Cricket
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> > >FAX: +971 4 3688080
> > >MOB:  +971 50 636 1734
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Chetan Asher [mailto:asherca@...]
> > >Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:06 PM
> > >To: icc-feedback@...
> > >Subject: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> > >
> > >Name: Chetan Asher
> > >Email address: asherca@...
> > >Subject: Umpiring & Match Refereeing
> > >
> > >Comments:
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >
> > >I would appreciate if you can let me have the email address of the ICC
> > >officer who is supposed to manage the performance of Umpires & Match
> > >Referees.
> > >
> > >
> > >Thanks in advance & best regards,
> > >Chetan A Asher,
> > >Chennai - India.
> > >
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Hi,

I am resending this message to Yahoo Cricket Lovers groups in India since
the original post bounced.

Regards,
Chetan Asher.
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Kiran,

As discussed, ICC's match referees & their "Emirates Umpires" seem to be
blatantly misusing their authority on the field of play to discriminate
against Indians.

There is no response from ICC to my pleas for action against their staff who
are abusing their authority to discriminate against Indians.

Als - no revert from Emirates in terms of what (if anything) they will do as
sponsors for the umpires.
(We'll give them a few more days, probably they have not had enough time to
decide how they should handle something like this).

The entire mail chain including the last one I sent out on 16th August is
appended below.

Please forward this request to as many Indians as you can, requesting all to
back my appeal to ICC - directly & through major ICC sponsors:

All Indians to request ICC to take public action against those of their
staff members who have misused their authority to discriminate against
cricketers from India.

In case you have contacts with Pepsi, Tata Indicom, ESPNStar etc. (major
sponsors of ICC events), please educate them to the fact that ICC staff is
discriminating against Indians & ICC are unwilling to take appropriate
action against the discriminators.
We Indians therefore understand that Discrimination against Indians is an
ICC policy.
It would therefore be inappropriate for us Indians to patronise their
products / services if they continue to spend on advertisement during ICC
events.

Regards,
Chetan.
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Upen,

Thanks for the support.  Interestingly, ICC still appear unwilling to
respond to my pleas to :

a) advise what was different about the Indian & non-Indian's action in the
events highlighted below,
     as a result of which they have chosen to penalise the Indian & let the
non-Indian go scott-free.
b) initiate action against their staff who are discriminating against
Indians.
c) how it is that almost all their umpires manage to err in such a way that
Indians have to suffer the
     brunt of the human errors & England / Australia / SA / WI (in matches
involving India) always
     benefit from Umpiring Errors.

Given the fact that Emirates is one of the key sponsors for ICC Umpires, I
have copied this mail to
Radhika Markan who is in charge of the Indian Sub-continent & Africa for
Emirates Airways in the hope that she can use her good-offices to get
justice for Indians from ICC.

All,

If any of you have contacts with Pepsi, Hero Honda, ESPN Star, Tata Indicom
etc. (corporates who sponsor ICC events in a big way OR participate funding
for ICC by giving them ads) with major interests in India, please forward
this message to them, requesting them to use their good offices to ensure
that ICC staff treats Indians fairly, also ICC penalises those of its staff
members who misuse their authority to discriminate against Indians.

I repeat - We are not asking ICC for any special treatment.  All we are
saying is - ICC has to treat Indian Cricketers at par with Australians /
West Indians / English / South African Cricketers.

Also - ICC should publicly penalise its staff members who are guilty of
indulging in visibly discriminatory
behaviour.

Regards,
Chetan.
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>From: "upen" <upen@...>
>Reply-To: bhatiasofchennai@yahoogroups.com
>To:
><upen_ashar@...>,<upen_ashar@...>,<sandhya_upen@...>
>CC:
><bcci@...>,<letters@...>,<harishdutia@...>,<hemangj@vsnl.\
com>,<yatrik.jhala@...>,<palejap@...>,<kaushikpalicha@...\
g>,<jayesh-patel@...>,<andypats@...>,<bhatiasofchennai@yahoogroups.com>\
,<manoj.goa@...>,"'Manish
>Danani'" <manishd_2000@...>,"'virendra Mishra'"
><virumishra@...>,<vaibhavbagde@...>,"'srikanth iyer'"
><srikanthiyer@...>
>Subject: [bhatiasofchennai] RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
>Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:58:54 +0530
>
>Dear Mr Chetan,
>
>We appreciate your spirit to take this up with ICC and can clearly see the
>effort you are taking to take up the issue at the right level. We can
>understand your LOVE for the GAME and emotions you have for partial
>treatment the players of India and Indian sub-continent gets.
>
>I agree with you that let this chain grow to its size and the people not
>treating our countrymen properly cannot just take it so lightly.
>
>So we request every Indian , cricket lover or not, to get the pride to the
>nation and support our friend to reach the masses and get desired attention
>in interest of our dignity and self -respect. Please circulate to as many
>known contacts you have.
>
>
>
>Upen
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chetan Asher [mailto:asherca@...]
>Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:37 PM
>To: enquiry@...
>Cc: upen@...; bcci@...; gandhipaleja@...;
>letters@...; harishdutia@...; hemangj@...;
>yatrik.jhala@...; palejap@...; kaushikpalicha@...;
>jayesh-patel@...; andypats@...; bhatiasofchennai@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
>
>Hello ICC,
>
>I have no response from you to any of the mails below, including the last
>one dated 13th August.
>
>In case you are looking for evidence of double-standards against Indians
>from your staff,
>here are URL's clearly documenting accurate occurances.
>
>1. http://www.hindu.com/2006/06/13/stories/2006061307111800.htm
>2. http://ia.rediff.com/cricket/2003/dec/09flash.htm
>
>A request from an Indian to all my Indian friends who are copied here -
>
>Some of you are advocates / know advocates.
>In case there is no visible action from ICC against their staff who have
>discriminated against Indians, please start exploring the possibility of
>filing a public interest litigation in an Indian High Court to -
>
>a) Restrict Indian Passport holders from travelling abroad to participate
>in
>
>any ICC-managed events.
>b) Ensure that corporates doing business in India are not allowed to fund
>ICC in any way.
>     (Including, but not limited to payment for TV Rights, advertising
>during
>
>ICC-managed events et al)
>
>We should also look at filing a PIL against BCCI and pray for a court order
>to dismiss all BCCI's office bearers who have not fulfilled their basic
>ethical responsibility - "ensure fair treatment to Indians by ICC".
>
>Chetan Asher.
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>------------------------------------------------------------
>Sheila,
>
>We are not looking for ICC to just "note" our views - In case this
>discriminatory misbehaviour of your umpires & match referees is not on ICC
>orders, we expect public action against them.
>
>I see no reason why somebody who has abused his position for non-cricketing
>reasons should be given the benefit of quietly moving out.  He should be
>questioned / penalised in keeping with ICC standards set by public
>penalties
>
>against Indian / Pakistani players.
>
>Please let us Indians know what action ICC has intends to take against
>those
>
>of their paid staff members (Umpires & Match Referees) who have been found
>blatantly abusing their authority to discriminate against Indians /
>Pakistanis.
>
>Clarifying for ICC -
>
>Discrimination is
>
>a) application of a law against Indian offenders when the same Law is not
>applied against an offender from another country.
>
>b) Making consistent allegedly human errors that only go against Indians on
>the field of play.
>      Human errors from your umpires would be treated as human errors & not
>commented upon if the
>      impact of such errors evens out over a period of time.
>      What we Indians have been observing over the last few years is that
>almost as a rule, if
>       an ICC umpire can err against India at a match-defining moment, he
>will err.
>      The near 100% success-rate with which umpires manage to ensure that
>only India suffers
>       from their "human errors" leaves us reasonably certain that those
>were
>
>not human errors.
>
>All my Indian Friends,
>
>Please support my request to ICC for public action against their staff who
>misuse their authority
>to discriminate against Indians.
>
>Start by sending emails to ICC whom I have addressed this mail to.  Also
>spread the word among
>your contacts to support our "Be Fair to Indians" demand.
>
>Regards,
>Chetan Asher.
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------------------------------------------
> >From: "Enquiry" <enquiry@...>
> >To: "Chetan Asher" <asherca@...>
> >Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> >Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:04:17 +0400
> >
> >Dear Chetan
> >
> >Thank you for your email. Your comments are duly noted.
> >
> >Kind regards
> >
> >Sheila R. Razdan
> >Administration Officer - Media & Communications
> >International Cricket Council
> >TEL: +971 4 3688315
> >FAX: +971 4 3688080
> >MOB:  +971 50 636 1734
> >
> >Al Thuraya Tower 1.
> >Dubai Media City.
> >P. O .Box - 500070.
> >Dubai - U.A.E.
> >Email: sheila.razdan@...
> >www.icc-cricket.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Chetan Asher [mailto:asherca@...]
> >Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 7:11 PM
> >To: Enquiry
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> >Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> >
> >David,
> >
> >Ian Howell continues to play for England in this test match.  Paul
> >Collingwood of England was out plumb LBW to such an extent that if that
> >cannot be given out, the LBW law should be scrapped.
> >
> >Howell has abused his authority to give Collingwood 2nd batting
> >yesterday.
> >Subsequently he has
> >today given Wasim Jaffer of India out LBW again when the ball was
> >missing the top of the stumps by at least 6 inches.  The ball had hit
> >Jaffer way over the Knee roll.
> >
> >In case we do not see you coming out publicly against 1. Mr Madugalle
> >your match referee who was at berst lethargic on his paid job -
> >Hooliganly Englishmen have not been penalised for behaviour that is
> >blatantly not in keeping with the spirit of cricket AND 2. Ian Howell
> >who seems to be the star of the English side.
> >
> >All my Indian Friends -
> >
> >We have not seen ICC even attempting to take any action against their
> >paid staff who are abusing their authority to show Indians inferior to
> >than what they actually are.
> >
> >Allegedly neutral umpire, Ian Howell is doing his best to win the Oval
> >Test for England.  He has till date made 5 errors at the Oval, all
> >favouring England.  I do not believe these are human errors.
> >
> >Match Referee Ranjan Madugalle has chosen to take action against an
> >Indian for "bringing the game to disrepute", but is not seen levying the
> >same charge on Englishmen whose behaviour on the field of play was
> >visibly worse.
> >
> >I appeal to all of you, stop patronising products of any corporate that
> >sponsors ICC events.
> >I see no reason why we Indians should do anything that results in money
> >for an organisation that keeps discriminating against Indians.
> >
> >Please pass on this request to all Indian cricket lovers that you know.
> >
> >Hindu,
> >
> >I would appreciate if you could publish this appeal on behalf of an
> >Indian who is pained by ICC's consistent discrimination against Indians
> >& BCCI's unwillingness / inability to take action against ICC.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Chetan Asher.
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >--------------------------------------------------
> >Hello David,
> >
> >Even as we are discussing the blatant discrimination against Indians by
> >your staff, Ian Howe has continued his brilliant performance for
> >England.
> >
> >Sourav Ganguly was not out for everyone except Ian Howe.
> >To compensate one human error favouring a bowler, Howe declared James
> >Anderson, an Englishman NOT OUT when he was out to the whole world.
> >
> >I repeat something I have stated earlier - Indians may be expected to
> >suffer the odd human error from umpires.  However, genuine human errors
> >over a period of time level out.
> >
> >I do not see any level out & the volume of errors against Indian
> >cricketers from your umpires as well as match referees only continues to
> >grow.
> >
> >BCCI -
> >
> >I have no revert for action against ICC staff who are misusing thier
> >position to ensure that Indians appear inferior to "Select" teams, not
> >even a will reply in ... days.
> >
> >What is worse, his staff have continued their "Hit India" ways with an
> >unreasonably large volume of one-sided "human errors" (as they would
> >like Indians to believe, though knowing otherwise).
> >The paid match referee remembers cricketing behaviour when Sree Santh of
> >India can be blamed.
> >Cricketing decorum is not broken when
> >Matt Prior the entire English slip cordon are obviously saints, Jelly
> >Beans which were meant to disturb the equilibrium of Indian batsmen grew
> >on the cricket pitch.
> >There was no visible dissent in Englishmen sending a message back to
> >Simon Tauffel basis which he asked for a TV replay & reversed what I
> >consider the only genuine human error in this series, allowing KP to
> >continue batting (I wonder if the match referee would have gone to sleep
> >the way he did if KP was replaced with Sachin / Ganguly).
> >
> >Leaves me thinking that
> >
> >a) ICC are suffering Indians only for our money.
> >b) Umpires & match referees have probably been ordered to pitch in
> >against
> >     "bloody brown Indians" if Indians start playing well enough to beat
> >"select teams".
> >      Remember - Bowden at Bangalore, he single-handedly won the test
> >match for an ICC
> >      favoured Australia, 4 "human errors" all against India.
> >      Only Rahul Dravid of India was "unfortunate" to be declared out
> >twice at Durban & SA won the
> >      test match.
> >      During the current series, there have been 4 / 5 alleged human
> >errors from ICC's umpires.
> >      No prizes for guessing - all batsmen "unfortunate" to be declared
> >out are Indians.  All
> >      batsmen "Fortunate" to survive close decisions are Englishmen.
> >
> >After all, Bloody Brown Indians should not be seen better than even
> >incompetent "select" teams.
> >
> >ICC is obviously treating your refusal to pick a public fight with them
> >in response to this kind of anti-Indian discriminatory behaviour from
> >their staff as a weakness they can exploit to loot Indians AND show us
> >as gutless fools.
> >
> >Remember - ICC's track record -
> >Sri Lanka suffered a lot of human errors & harrasment from ICC's umpires
> >till Arjuna Ranatunga brought in a couple of lawyers when the
> >Australians tried to mis-use their umpires to get rid of Murali.  Once
> >Sri Lanka picked a fight, Murali was suddenly fine.
> >Similarly - Shoaib Akhtar's bouncer was a faulty action till PCB
> >produced TV replays proving that his action was identical to Brett Lee
> >of Australia.
> >Once this was proved, the law governing bowling action was rectified.
> >Virender Sehwag of India taking 2 / 3 steps in the general direction of
> >an Umpire was considered "threatening" & he was awarded a 1 testmatch
> >ban.
> >Please remind us of any action taken by ICC's allegedly neutral match
> >referee against Brian Charles Lara of WI who clearly walked upto the
> >umpire, abusing him & snatched the ball from him.
> >Threat & dissent were both visible to all normal human beings, but
> >remind us of any action taken by ICC against Lara.
> >
> >If you have any sense of self-respect left you should resign your ICC
> >membership on grounds of discrimination & mistreatment of Indian
> >participants by ICC staff.
> >
> >Do not spoil India's name & image just for some money that you will be
> >able to control as an ICC member.
> >
> >In fact, there is so much love for Cricket in India that if you resign
> >your ICC membership & get into managing domestic cricket, you will
> >probably have all the money you want to control from Domestic cricket
> >alone.
> >
> >Also - we Indian cricket lovers would respect you more for standing-up
> >for India & Indians rather than taking visibly discriminatory treatment
> >against Indians by ICC lying down.
> >
> >Thanks in advance for being Indian.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Chetan Asher.
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >--------------------------------------------------------
> >Hello David,
> >
> >I have sent the below mails to your attention on 8th & 9th August.
> >Would appreciate a revert on these.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Chetan Asher
> >Indian Cricket Lover.
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >----------------------------------------------------------------
> >Hello David,
> >
> >I have no response from you to the below mail.
> >
> >What is worse - your umpires continue to help England.  The same man has
> >already given 2 Indians out "erraneously" - Dinesh Karthik & Saurav
> >Ganguly's wickets were gifted to incompetent English bowlers by ICC's
> >umpires.
> >
> >That makes a count of 5 human errors from your umpires against India in
> >this series alone.
> >
> >The only error against England invited an argument from the English
> >dressing room, in response to which the umpire promptly called for a TV
> >replay & reversed that error.
> >
> >We are yet to hear of the match referee taking any action against the
> >Englishmen for what they did.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Chetan.
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >---------------------------------------------------------
> >Hello David,
> >
> >Below examples that come to mind off the cuff:
> >
> >1. Virender Sehwag of India was levied a 1 test match ban when he took 3
> >/ 4 steps in the general direction of the umpire a few years ago, the
> >allegation
> >- he is threatening the umpire.
> >BCCI's appeal for review was also turned down, clearly laying a
> >standard.
> >Same standard was not followed in a recent incident - I am unable to
> >find any action by ICC's umpires / match referees against Brian Lara
> >when WI appealed for Dhoni's wicket recently & the umpires gave Dhoni 6
> >!  Lara visibly walked upto the umpires in rage, abused them & snatched
> >the ball from their hand.
> >2. I recollect several Indian fielders charged with violation of varios
> >ICC laws when they celebrated the fall of a wicket, but am unable to
> >find any record of action taken against Glen McGrath for the abuse &
> >visible pointing to the dressing room he did on the field of play after
> >getting Sachin's wicket a few years ago.
> >3. I recollect a whole host of Indian cricketers penalised for showing
> >dissent - Sehwag at Bangalore for pointing to his bat when he had
> >actually nicked the ball & Bowden gave him out LBW, Harbhajan in one of
> >the Sharjah series because somebody saw a look of dissent in his eyes !
> >the list could go on
> >
> >I am unable to find anything action against
> >a) Lara for walking upto the on-field umpires in visible anger &
> >snatching the ball from the umpire
> >b) Kevin Peterson & the English cricket management in the recent
> >incident when Simon Tauffel gave Kevin out caught behind & a message
> >came in from the english dressing room basis which Simon Tauffel asked
> >for a replay & revised his decision.
> >c) Fleming (I think) from Australia who actually stamped his feet on the
> >ground like a kid throwing a tantrum when he appealed for LBW against
> >Sachin & the umpire ruled Sachin Not out.  This was during the same
> >tournament where Harbhajan Singh of India was accused for dissent for
> >looking at the umpire !  In fact, during the post-match conference, the
> >match referee had cheekily asked media reporters "what dissent" when
> >they asked him what action he intended to take against Fleming for
> >showing dissent.
> >d) The guilty Englishmen for Visible harrasment of Indian batsmen
> >through- Matt Prior's lip service & Jelly beans on the field of play
> >with a view to harrassing the Indian Batsmen, all discussed very widely
> >in the media.
> >e) The unfair use of Squash balls / graphite bats by Australian batsmen
> >to win World Cup finals.  I know this is not disallowed explicitly.
> >However, given the fact that this kind of tactics are not in keeping
> >with the spirit of cricket, ICC should have taken action against the
> >offenders under Clause
> >C1 "Conduct Contrary to the Spirit of the Game", instead of allowing the
> >beneficiaries to claim a World Cup title.
> >f) Keppler Wessels of SA who actually hit Kapil Dev of India with his
> >bat on the field of play.  The match referee openly refused to take any
> >action against the offender since the SACB was unable to provide a
> >replay tapes (as reported in the media).
> >
> >What we have sighted is a sledge-hammer when cricketers of Indian /
> >Pakistani origin are at fault to the extent of blatantly re-defining
> >technicalities - Sachin Tendulkar of India was accused of ball-tampering
> >when all he had done was clean the ball, even after the ball showed no
> >evidence of being tampered with on one of India's tours of SA.
> >
> >AND Negligible / no action when cricketers from other teams are
> >involved.
> >
> >There might be more than meets the eye in incidents where match referees
> >have chosen to go soft, but there is no public explaination along the
> >lines.
> >This leaves us to draw our own conclusions.  My assumption of
> >discrimination is based on the fact that all cricketers on whom match
> >referees have gone soft are either white OR WI.  All cricketers hit hard
> >by ICC match referees are Indians / Pakistanis.
> >
> >When this is added to the below observations -
> >
> >1.  4 human errors from Billy Bowden in an India Vs Australia test match
> >at Bangalore all favouring Australia & Australia won that match.
> >2. Rahul Dravid of India declared incorrectly out twice at Durban & SA
> >won the test match to level the series.
> >3. Rahul Dravid of India again declared incorrectly out at Lord's on the
> >4th day..fortunately for India, rain intervened on the 5th day when
> >England had all but won the test match.
> >4. Sachin Tendulkar & Saurav Ganguly of India given out incorrectly in
> >the 2nd test match between India & England, which did not matter in the
> >overall result thanks to Zaheer Khan's exceptional bowling in the
> >English 2nd innings.
> >
> >Across a more than 2 year window, I am unable to locate the even-out in
> >terms of match-defining human errors from umpires that resulted in
> >victories for India against Australia / SA / England.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Chetan Asher.
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >---------------------------------------------------
> > >From: "Enquiry" <enquiry@...>
> > >To: "Chetan Asher" <asherca@...>
> > >Subject: RE: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> > >Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:31:29 +0400
> > >
> > >Dear Chetan
> > >
> > >I refer to your email which has been referred to me for my attention
> > >and reply.
> > >
> > >All decisions made by the umpires and referees are independently
> > >assessed and noted. At the conclusion of every match the captains from
> > >both teams have the opportunity to report on the match officials. I
> > >also regularly meet with the captains of all teams. One of the matters
> > >discussed is the standard of officiating. Should any allegations of
> > >bias be reported they will be investigated and dealt with.
> > >
> > >You are welcome to submit any examples of alleged bias.
> > >
> > >Regards
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Chetan Asher [mailto:asherca@...]
> > >Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:06 PM
> > >To: icc-feedback@...
> > >Subject: ICC Feedback: (Umpiring & Match Refereeing)
> > >
> > >Name: Chetan Asher
> > >Email address: asherca@...
> > >Subject: Umpiring & Match Refereeing
> > >
> > >Comments:
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >
> > >I would appreciate if you can let me have the email address of the ICC
> > >officer who is supposed to manage the performance of Umpires & Match
> > >Referees.
> > >
> > >
> > >Thanks in advance & best regards,
> > >Chetan A Asher,
> > >Chennai - India.
> > >
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> >
> > Dravid confident ahead of Eng series
> >
> >
> >
> > India skipper Rahul Dravid on Sunday said his team is confident
> of winning the upcoming first series in England in 20 years.
> >
> > "If there is any tour that you want to take a compliment of young
> bowlers, it is probably this one," Dravid said as the team ended
its
> three-day training session at the National Cricket Academy in
> Bangalore.
> >
> > "There are at least some practice games for them to get an
> opportunity and to learn in conditions that might help them."
> >
> > "Most of our bowlers are seam and swing bowlers and there might
be
> situations in England when this might help us," Dravid said.
> >
> > The appointment of Chandu Borde as a cricket manager, Dravid can
> focus on leading his team in the challenging summer conditions of
> Ireland and England this summer - something his inexperienced pace
> battery is not used to.
> >
> > "I am sure this is a short term arrangement but I am sure they
will
> be looking to fulfil the role. whatever you may like to call it,
over
> a longer period of time," Dravid said.
> >
> > Taking the burden off Dravid's shoulders in the one dayers would
be
> his new deputy MS Dhoni. He has been rewarded for his consistent
> performance and is looking foward to the new role.
> >
> > "Definitely, you get more responsible when given such a
> responsibility. I am excited on becoming the vice captain and will
> try my best," Dhoni said.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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