I Agree with an email sent to cricinfo that he shouldn’t be allowed to resign and should be sacked!!!
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And now the NO ball episode, God I love Aleem!!!!
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Errr ..
Aleem Dar is awesome
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Wow, what a jack @$$ Ponting is here, he is arguing like a gali/mohallah cricketer here. If 3rd umpire has turned it down then STFU and move on. He should be heavily fined for this argument by ICC and sacked by Aussie board.
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And now the NO ball episode, God I love Aleem!!!!
do you have YT of that? :D
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Ponting loses his cool as the match slips away
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December 27, 2010
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Ricky Ponting finally cracked under the strain of impending Ashes defeat when he picked a series of arguments with the umpires and Kevin Pietersen after the batsman correctly survived a caught-behind referral. Ponting is likely to gain some attention from Ranjan Madugalle, the match referee, for his angry discussions with an ice-cool Aleem Dar early in the second session.
The umpires were reviewing footage after play before determining whether to file a report to the ICC. Peter Siddle repeatedly refused to comment on the incident when he spoke an hour after stumps while Jonathan Trott, who was batting with Pietersen, insisted he didn’t hear anything.
Numerous replays and Hotspot graphics showed no inside edge from Pietersen’s push off Ryan Harris, but Ponting remained convinced there had been a mistake. Siddle, who was not bowling at either end, began the animated protest to Dar by pointing at the video screen in the stands, convinced a mark had been made on Hotspot when the ball passed the bat. No highlight existed near the trajectory of the ball and the Snickometer supported the decision of Marais Erasmus, the third official.
Ponting is struggling for runs, carrying a fractured finger and seems only a couple of days from becoming the second Australian captain to lose three Test series against England. Until today he had remained calm under searing scrutiny, but he broke for the first time in public as he backed up his bowler.
The pair surrounded Dar in a scene more likely to occur in a soccer game after a disputed foul, although there was no contact with the official. Ponting then took over from Siddle as the lead prosecutor, standing with hands on hips and then pointing and waving his arms in an exchange that lasted for more than a minute. Dar stayed calm and appeared to indicate that the ball had not brushed the bat where the fielders thought there was a mark. That was clear to all those watching on television, but not to the Australians on the field.
Ponting’s mostly one-way conversation carried on for so long that the crowd started to boo and Dar eventually ambled off to square leg to get into position for the next over. Pietersen, who was on 49, was then met by Ponting mid-pitch as the captain continued to vent. There was more booing when he stopped for another lengthy debrief with Tony Hill, the other on-field umpire.
Australia’s batsmen lost their discipline on the first day when they were dismissed for 98 and today the captain’s behaviour slipped. After the over Ponting, a man at the end of his tether and probably close to the end of his reign, sought out Dar again.
Initially the wicketkeeper Brad Haddin was the only one who thought Pietersen had edged behind, with Harris and Shane Watson, the first slip, not remotely interested. Ponting was swayed by Haddin’s claim and called for the replay. The decision wasn’t costly because of Ponting’s smart call to bring on Siddle, who got one to keep low and had Pietersen lbw for 51.
Ponting’s day grew worse when he thought his throw from deep midwicket resulted in the run-out of Jonathan Trott, but the replays forced the umpire to rule in favour of the batsman. After tea Matt Prior was given out caught behind off Mitchell Johnson on 6 and was saved when Dar asked for a replay that showed a no-ball.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2010-11/content/current/story/494231.html
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So he gets off with a measly fine of 40% deduction of the match fees. Shame on you ICC. This arrogant bully deserved a lot more. Imagine had it been the other way round, i.e. a coloured player with a white umpire, the fine and punishment would have been a lot more severe. This incident shows ICC has a long way to go when it comes to equal treatment of people of all races.
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^ ya, 40% doesn't look much, it would've been a match or 2 ban for a colored player.
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very bad behavior…well..not surprising really as Aussie players have always been spoil sports 
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Been a World Class Batsmen is nothing unless u dont have enough respect for umpires decision
i use to hate ponting but now i just hate this guy more 
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I love the technology and newly inducted laws using them!
Colored players have less to worry about and now the ‘Gora’ elements get the taste of their own pie.
People like Pontings can “loose it too” because they have little more patience than the subcontinent Lot. Hence no difference at all 
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wow…blatant baised decisions galore…had it been some other team and specially our one and only green shirts…the captain would have gotten slapped with a ban or something…and I guess they went easy on Putter punter cuz its the ASSSSHES..doh…
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^^ It is not only Green Shirts, remember they banned Dhoni and only reason was ( if i recall it right) over rate was slow!!! this will continue until the Asian nations learn to work together...
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Aleem Dar is a top notch umpire. You never see him lose his composure even when he's in the right side of an argument.
And relax people. There's no diabolical conspiracy behind the handing out of these fines.
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If it was a player from the sub continent he would have been banned and Lorgat would have been giving press conferences and lecturing on behaviour.
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^ true that.
@ ponting: cry baby
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If it was a player from the sub continent he would have been banned and Lorgat would have been giving press conferences and lecturing on behaviour.
Yeah of course. Like how Harbhajan was suspended for a lengthy time for his racial taunt at Symonds. (End sarcasm).
The conspiracy theories should stop. They're petty and quite childish.
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Yeah of course. Like how Harbhajan was suspended for a lengthy time for his racial taunt at Symonds. (End sarcasm).
The conspiracy theories should stop. They're petty and quite childish.
You should have watched sky sports last night and all the commentators on there said he should have been banned. Enough said. Reality is not conspiracy theory.
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Ehsan bhai, we disagree not on what the punishment should be ( I actually quite dislike Ponting for the way he becomes a brat when things go awry) but on the alleged reasoning behind what it is. To so brazenly declare that it's because he is white is pretty ignorant. Darrel Hair, anyone?
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^ No I didn't say because he was white, I said it because there is a bias against sub continent players. I didnt say west indian players either. All the commentators on sky sports were white. :)