January 02, 2008

Ravi Shastri: 'Umpiring errors hurt India'

Yes, but while credit must go to the way Symonds and Hogg played, one cannot take away from the fact that India just did not have luck going their way. You know a couple of decisions, which on any other given day would have gone in favour of the touring side, might well have had Australia bowled out for under 200. One was Symonds when he was on 30 - a big outside edge and you could literally hear it from plenty of areas on the ground and that didn't go India's way - and the dismissal of Ponting. But there it evened out because Ponting was adjudged leg-before when he actually inside-edged the ball. But I thought the Symonds dismissal, first the caught behind and then a stumping which went to the third umpire, would have hurt the Indians even more.

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