Commentators just said...This is biggest ever TEST crowd in sydney.Mind it SCG has more 100 years of TEST match tradition.
total crowd more than 196000.
Serously? 196000 outside the sub-continent? This match and series has set all kinds of records. Only the Aussies and Indians can do this!
I don't know whether to pray for India to win or for the match to draw. I really don't want Steve's last match to be a series loser for him - isn't he the guy who does / did some good work in Kolkata for poor kids? If so, I'd prefer a draw to even an Indian win.
On the other hand...it'd be nice to win abroad ... it's been so long!
If only Steve would announce he'd stick around for another series with someone. Then it'd be so easy to just go beat the heck out of them.
Oh Okay this was this desi resturant when i was there last year. :) I thought may be i have played cricket with u and kicked ur butt. as i played crikcet with some indian students there.
Faisal, I also watched it on TV. Bucknor should retire from umpiring… he has given some ridiculous decisions in this series… including THREE today which could prove crucial in the end.
I considered Bucknor as a good Umpire but he has been amazingly incompetent in this series.
http://www.cricinfo.org/db/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS//2004/JAN/037793_AUSIND2003-04_06JAN2004.html
“Ajit Agarkar had got Justin Langer lbw twice, with balls that pitched on leg, straightened and were hitting middle stump. Both were plumb, both were given not out by Steve Bucknor. Later, Damien Martyn was plumb to Murali Kartik, and again Bucknor, who had made that shocking decision against Sachin Tendulkar at Brisbane, adjudged it not out. His decisions threatened to affect the outcome of a tense, even series. And it is surely unjust that the final result could be determined not by the excellence of the cricket, but the ineptness of the umpiring. It brought two key issues into the spotlight, which the ICC would do well to consider seriously: age; and technology”