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Eden Gardens… one of the largest cricketing stadium in the world. One of the most beautiful too. It is often compared with MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) situated in Australia.

An Account Of A 1996 World Cup Semi-final Match:-

People in the cricketing world knows the name or the ground very well. For the wrong reasons though. In 1996 cricket world cup, which was held in Indian subcontinent, India and Sri Lanka had played a semi-final match here.

So whats the big deal here?

Only that the match had to be stopped due to public anger spilling over to the ground! Spectators threw bottles at the Sri Lankan players because India lost wickets in quick sessions.

Even Sri Lanka had lost wickets in that way. The problem was with the pitch. Here a world cup semi final match was being played in a such a unplayable wicket. It had no pace, no bounce. It was dusty and big cracks could be seen everywhere! The curator was Kalyan Mitra.

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Hey guys, the Indian team sured pulled the australian team`s tail today. Isnt it?

The way our tail-enders played today, really brought the kangaroo team down to their knees.

Sachin Tendulkar :

Sachin Tendulkar played an awesome knock today. This test is also going to be his last test match in Australia. But he made it a memorable one. He scored 153! He really showed to the world, what he is capable of doing till now. He hammered every bowlers around the park. That was an blazing innings.

Harbhajan :

When he was gone ultimately, Kumble took it over from him, to play a captain`s innings. He and Harbhajan made a partnership of 103 runs for the 8th wicket stand!

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So finally IPL started rolling out. The winning bidders of the different city teams were declared. These bidders will own the teams and manage them.

IPL?

Well for those of you who dont know about it will now, or have never heard about it, let me tell you what is this all about.

IPL or Indian Premier League, is a Twenty20 international tournament. Its being controlled or managed by BCCI, the Indian cricket board. in this tournament, the teams will come from different cities of India and will play against each other.

In the same way there are different particating countries will conduct the matches between their city teams. Finally there will be a clash between these winning teams from different countries!

Ya it all sounds very interesting, specially for a cricket nation like India!

It also sounds interesting for the richest cricket board in the world BCCI- lots of money to be made!

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After watching the test match, someone has written some rules have to be incorporated by ICC to give the other teams a perfect clarification

1. Ricky Ponting – (THE TRULY GENUINE CRICKETER OF THE CRICKET ERA AND WHOSE INTEGRITY SHOULD NOT BE DOUBTED) should be considered as the FOURTH UMPIRE. As per the new rules, FOURTH UMPIRE decision is final and will over ride any decisions taken by any other umpires. ON-FIELD umpires can seek the assistance of RICKY PONTING even if he is not on the field. This rule is to be made, so that every team should understand the importance of the FOURTH UMPIRE.

2. While AUSTRALIAN TEAM is bowling, If the ball flies anywhere close to the AUSTRALIAN FIELDER(WITHIN 5 metre distance), the batsman is to be considered OUT irrelevant of whether the catch was taken cleanly or grassed. Any decision for further clarification should be seeked from the FOURTH UMPIRE. This is made to ensure that the cricket is played with SPORTIVE SPIRIT by all the teams.

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One more blow has been served to the Indian cricket team in Australia. Harbhajan has been banned from playing from 3 tests. In a combined protest from Indian team and the cricket BCCI, have decided to hold the tour until final decisions have been taken by the cricket gorverning body ICC on the Harbhajan and umpiring issue.

Harbhajan was called for hearing by the match referee. He was accompanied by Sachin, Kumble, the team manager and the media manager. After hearing the allegations from Symonds, Ponting, Gilchrist,etc, it was decided by the panel that Harbhajan has done Level 3.3 offence. Thus he was banned from playing from 3 test matches with immediate effect.

The hearing panel did not pay any heed to Sachin`s words or Harbhajan`s words who kept insisting that he did not make any racial comments against Symonds. It only heard the allegations from the Australian side and decided on the course of the action.

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Such a horrible test match it was. Such idiotic it was. Such a biased test it was. Such a hopeless game of cricket it was. Such a ridiculous game it was. A nonsense game of cricket it was…

Please tell me some more adjectives in those lines which I can put up there.

Did you see the test? I had seen it. And after a long time that I had seen or followed a test so closely. And ultimately what a test I had seen…

For those of you who are thinking whats going on here or which test I am talking about, then here it is. The test match was played between India and Australia. It was the second test match of the India tour to Australia. Dated 2-01-08 to 6-01-08.

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