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As I’ve told already, I hate Oz. Now, after seeing the outcome of second test match, I can tell that I found a reason to hate it even more. Thinking from their perspective, they always had a problem with India. It became visible when they lost to India in the T20 World Cup. With that trophy, they wanted to complete their cabinet and name themselves ‘true’ world-champions. But, India has shattered their dream and sent them home without that trophy. After that, they have seen a whole country celebrating the victory their team and making their team damn rich and super heroes.

Now, from their perspective, one can easily tell that, if - Indians perform like Oz, they are anyway now treated as sample-Gods, they would have been treated like real-Gods. On the other hand, Oz, even with their fantabulous performance, only 59% of their Aussie population is interested in cricket. Infact, ‘Footy’ is ‘most’ watched sport in Australia and more Australians tend to participate in Swimming than Cricket. These reasons are enough for Australian Cricket Players to hate be jealous of ‘Indian’ Cricketers. The outcome of that jealousy is nothing but their desperate attempts to win the game.

Well, yeah. Australian cricket team + 3 Umpires, managed to convert a losing-game into a draw-game and later into a winning-game today. Hats off to Indian players for their patience. I became sick after just watching those replays in news. I’m sure that many Indians who watched match would have been even more pissed off. Indian team proved that they have very good patience at the end of the match by not hitting any of the umpires of Oz players.

Well, yeah, just another fact before ending this post. This post is not to support bad game of Indian team. This is just to make note of bad attitude of Australian team. Indians indeed played badly, but not as bad as to lose the match. For Umpires, Steve Bucknor Fucknor, this is the time for you to retire and Mark Benson, what the heck were you doing on a cricket ground ???

Number 42 is going perfectly wrong with Sachin. He missed yet another century today in his 90s. Sachin looked at his best in today’s match playing all over the field but couldn’t convert it into a century.

He missed a century for the 6th time in last 21 innings while he was on his nineties. Three of them, he was out for 99. He is dismissed in nineties for the 14th time in his career today.

Sachin’s last century was against West Indies (exactly 100) back this year in January. Well, to be frank, I don’t care whether he gets a century or not as long as he is playing as good as ever. But, missing century for six times while being on nineties in the same year is certainly bad luck.

Tendulkar’s dismissals in the 90s this year: [1]
99 (143 balls) South Africa Belfast 26-Jun-2007 run-out
93 (106 balls) South Africa Belfast 29-Jun-2007 bowled
99 (112 balls) England Bristol 24-Aug-2007 caught (wk)
94 (81 balls) England The Oval 05-Sep-2007 caught
99 (91 balls) Pakistan Mohali 08-Nov-2007 caught (wk)
97 (102 balls) Pakistan Gwalior 15-Nov-2007 bowled

Hope Sachin will get his 42nd century next match itself.

PS: According to rediff, it’s 6th time in last 19 innings and 16th time his career. If you know correct number, let me know.