Is Steve Roy's daddy

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Australia lead 2 nil.

No amount of histrionics will change that.

India can rightfully think they were hard done by.

But will it change the score line?

If India get too caught up in this they will lose the series 4 nil. They got shafted, it has happened to all sporting teams in the world. This one was pretty full on, no doubt, but sh1t happens.

India are the closest team on pure ability to Australia, but if they think they lost just cause of umpiring decisions they would be making a huge mistake.

Blaming the umpires sells a lot of papers, but it doesn’t win you the next test, and that is all India can do.

You don’t win respect in the media, you win it on the turf.

India should look at this game critically, because they made mistakes, mistakes you can’t afford against Australia.

Roy should have been given out, but India’s mistake was letting a batsmen of Brad Hogg’s ability take the momentum away from them.

They bowled horribly to him, and he turned around the innings.

In their innings Sachin played a brilliant innings, but his work with the tailenders was defensive and looked selfish.

I’m not saying it was selfish, but when you are that on top of a team as India was, your champion batsmen not out, and batting with below par batsmen surely he should take over and guide the game, not let the tail enders flow along until the inevitably go out.

Indias bowling in the second innings, Harbhajan aside, wasn’t of a great standard. Anil was horrible, worse than I have ever seen him before.

But now they know they can make Australia bleed.

Mind you a wounded beast gets even angrier.

Now the test is over, Steve's umpiring career is also over. His umpiring is about 5 years past its use by date.

At his prime he was a damn good umpire, but Elvis got fat and Steve got deaf and blind.

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