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.

Boxing Day Test Match

As the first test match between Australia and India starts on the boxing day of the Australian history, the question arrives with which opening batting pair will the Indian team go in at the Melbourne cricket ground. With Virender Sehwag not included in the Indian team for Australia tour there is a question on who will be joining Wasim Jaffer as the opening batsman. Will it be Rahul Dravid? With no other options left with indian team either Rahul Dravid or Dinesh Karthik on the expense of Yuvraj Singh will be the other opening batsman.

Regarding Australian side it is much balanced with Phil Jacques, Matthew Hayden an Ricky Ponting in form. For them pitch that will be used for the first test remains something of an enigma. The unbeatable warriors are confident and ready to win yet another series. They won an incredible series against New Zealand earlier this month boosting there performance.

Indian team is also in high spirits after a confident Test series win over Pakistan earlier this month and is looking forward to give a tough competition to world champions.