Should Indian Team call off the Australia tour?

The question that is bothering the Indian Team and BCCI is weather to call off the Australian tour or not. After becoming the victims of such a poor umpiring and then the charges of racial abuse, will Indian Team be able to continue playing upcoming matches under such conditions.


BCCI risk paying a 2.3 million dollar fine for suspending its cricket tour of Australia,and this has probably led the board to order the Indian team to remain in Sydney, rather that travel to Canberra as scheduled. Under ICC rules, member countries are obliged to fulfil their tour contracts except when the security of the players is at risk or the touring team's government orders that the tour should not proceed.


The Indian players were incensed by the poor standard of umpiring, most of which favoured the Austrailians, and Indian captain Anil Kumble revived echoes of the Bodyline controversy when he accused the Australians of not playing in the spirit of the game. From the first Day of the match umpiring was in the favour of Australian Team and then the Australian Players lining up as witnesses against Harbhajan Singh for Racial Abuse. It seems that everything was against Indian Team in second test match.


ICC should take some action on the incidents that took place during second test insted of imposing charges on Indian Players. If these conditons remains during the third test also then i am highly in favour of calling out the tour by BCCI. Insted this decision should be made by ICC because this is not cricket and this is against the spirit of the game.