Shocking Turn to the Decider

Shocking ? Disgusting ? Suspicious ? Unforgivable ?
What exactly were your feelings when Aleem Dar raised
his finger on 8/9/2007 at the Lord’s - England ) first for
Rahul Dravid and then for Sachin Tendulkar in almost next
to no time ?
Was Andrew Flintoff, as a bowler, the beneficiary of an
honest human error or was England XI being guided towards
victory at the behest of abetting syndicate / cartel ?
Azaharuddin and Hansie Cronje were deemed guilty of having
brought the game into disrepute and banned. Does the game’s
reputation get enhanced by "false appeals" and such "blatantly
wrong decisions" ? Or will the Wisden records show "given out
wrongly" against the following :-
Rahul Dravid c Prior b. Flintoff 0 ( & other such entries)
Was Tendulkar any less deserving of a recall than Pietersen
earlier during the same tour ?
Or, have the umpires been given a brief by the I.C.C. about
entertaining such requests, indeed commands, from the home
team only ?
And then, we also have the totally blatant discriminatory
interpretations of various related laws. While Indian cricketers
get docked a percentage for any minor transgression,
a Collingwood can openly challange an umpire on the field -
everyone but the blind saw it !!
Perhaps, ICL is a good thing after all !!
If we can have three different entities sharing the World Boxing
revenues and Lawn Tennis supports its different "circuits" so well,
why should not Cricket expand its horizons to challange the
monopoly being exercised byI.C.C. and B.C.C.I. ?
After all, it will definitely be beneficial to the players, the spectators
and, above all, to the game of Cricket itself !!