Would you have upheld the appeal?

[Furball]

Yeah Praveen's reaction made it look like it was 4 but he had not signalled it. And tbf to him,don't think he was acting but he had no idea where the ball was and whether it stayed in or out.

Akram, Atherton, Shastri, Gavaskar all ex-captains saying they wouldn't have called him back. That's the only big gripe i have with the decision.

It's all good and dandy that Dhoni was upholding the spirit and all, but how many captains would reciprocate that?
Being the nice guy may get you the applause right now, but others would be more ruthless and take advantage of that and not have any remorse about it.

Dravid on Sky has just said it was a unanimous team decision.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

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[Cevno]

Dravid on Sky has just said it was a unanimous team decision.

And Bell saying on Star Cricket " It was naive on my part, and i was out according to the rules, except for spirit of game and all"

Bhimani asked him what would you have done had you been captain he said a bit meekly "i don't know, honestly. No point going on about it and speculating too much know. Both teams reached the decision"

Dravid saying Laxman was given out stumped in the West Indies in a not good manner and they were a bit unimpressed with the West Indians appealing.

 

[Jacknife]

And Bell saying on Star Cricket " It was naive on my part, and i was out according to the rules, except for spirit of game and all"

Bhimani asked him what would you have done had you been captain he said a bit meekly "i don't know, honestly. No point going on about it and speculating too much know. Both teams reached the decision"

Dravid saying Laxman was given out stumped in the West Indies in a not good manner and they were a bit unimpressed with the West Indians appealing.

What goes round come around and the Indians may get the favour back,if anything like this happens again.

 

[Xuhaib]

gosh! thats ****ish from Collingwood.

 

[ankitj]

Dravid on Sky has just said it was a unanimous team decision.

Hmm, the whole Indian team is class then, not just Dhoni.

 

[Cevno]

Can add Manjrekar and Nasser Hussain to those who wouldn't have recalled.

 

[honestbharani]

I like it that Dhoni did this.. A simple gesture like this generally goes a long way.. We have avoided a potential Sydnet 2007/08 here and that is BIG. I know we are gonna lose now but look, we were gonna lose even with that wicket and we would have looked even ****ter in the process... At least we got some dignity to our loss now.

 

[Pothas]

Would like to think I would not have appealed in the first place, that is not to totally exonerate Bell from any fault but I personally agree with Bumble in finding in uncomfortable for wickets to fall in that way.

Having said that would not have necessary blamed Dhoni for turning down England’s request but pleased that he did.

 

[Howe_zat]

On reflection, I don't think I would have recalled Bell. As I said before, weird **** happens and sometimes you're on the unlucky side.

I like that Dhoni did, not just as an England supporter but as a cricket fan too. Shows that they don't have to work through the fine print of law-whatever-subsection-blah-paragraph-who-cares every time there's a dispute, they can talk about it like reasonable people. Good to know.

And I'm grateful he was recalled, just because otherwise this place would have turned into an absolute ****storm.

 

[Cevno]

On reflection, I don't think I would have recalled Bell. As I said before, weird **** happens and sometimes you're on the unlucky side.

I like that Dhoni did, not just as an England supporter but as a cricket fan too. Shows that they don't have to work through the fine print of law-whatever-subsection-blah-paragraph-who-cares every time there's a dispute, they can talk about it like reasonable people. Good to know.

And I'm grateful he was recalled, just because otherwise this place would have turned into an absolute ****storm.

Bell was asked himself on star cricket what he would have done and he did not say anything clear cut himself. As i said here-

And Bell saying on Star Cricket " It was naive on my part, and i was out according to the rules, except for spirit of game and all"

Bhimani asked him what would you have done had you been captain he said a bit meekly "i don't know, honestly. No point going on about it and speculating too much know. Both teams reached the decision"

Dravid saying Laxman was given out stumped in the West Indies in a not good manner and they were a bit unimpressed with the West Indians appealing.

 

[ankitj]

On reflection, I don't think I would have recalled Bell. As I said before, weird **** happens and sometimes you're on the unlucky side.

I like that Dhoni did, not just as an England supporter but as a cricket fan too. Shows that they don't have to work through the fine print of law-whatever-subsection-blah-paragraph-who-cares every time there's a dispute, they can talk about it like reasonable people. Good to know.

And I'm grateful he was recalled, just because otherwise this place would have turned into an absolute ****storm.

Agree.

And I am also confident that if an Indian batsman was run out in a similar fashion by English team, the posters here would have been in exact opposite camp. 100% confident...!!

 

[MW1304]

Agree.

And I am also confident that if an Indian batsman was run out in a similar fashion by English team, the posters here would have been in exact opposite camp. 100% confident...!!

But there's no split between Indian and English posters, as far as I'm concerned. Plenty of English posters are saying they wouldn't have recinded the appeal, plenty of Indian posters saying they would. There's actually been pretty good reaction on the forum from both sets of fans - could have been a storm.

 

[NasserFan207]

On reflection, I don't think I would have recalled Bell. As I said before, weird **** happens and sometimes you're on the unlucky side.

I like that Dhoni did, not just as an England supporter but as a cricket fan too. Shows that they don't have to work through the fine print of law-whatever-subsection-blah-paragraph-who-cares every time there's a dispute, they can talk about it like reasonable people. Good to know.

And I'm grateful he was recalled, just because otherwise this place would have turned into an absolute ****storm.

Yeah, things here were about to get really nasty, you could smell it

 

[Cevno]

Former England all-rounder Ian Botham felt the spirit of the game held 'no relevance' in this situation.

'My attitude is it was the right decision by the umpires, they did everything spot-on. The man at short leg was screaming at the players to get the ball in because Bell had wandered off, it was just one of those parts of a learning curve. He was out and he should have stayed out, in my opinion.'

Read more: Ian Bell: Run-out was 'naive' from me | Mail Online

So it is now Shastri, Atherton, Gavaskar, Manjrekar, Kumble, Botham, Hussain, Akram who wouldn't have overturned.

 

[Neil Pickup]

gosh! thats ****ish from Collingwood.

Yep, it was. IIRC it was pretty unanimous on here that the appeal should have been withdrawn and I know I wasn't the only one to be grateful that NZ beat us in that one.

As for this, well, haven't seen it yet, but I'd like to think I'd not have appealed in the first place.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Agree.

And I am also confident that if an Indian batsman was run out in a similar fashion by English team, the posters here would have been in exact opposite camp. 100% confident...!!

Classy.

 

[M0rphin3]

Probably Dhoni was trying to save his face after the UDRS fiasco. Had they lost the match after denying to overturn the decision, it would've been worse. I can't think of any other reason tbh.

Edit: Yet to see the match, so I might well be talking out of my arse.

 

[fredfertang]

Dhoni was absolutely right to appeal in the first place and equally correct to withdraw the appeal.

If Bell had been out England would have believed, with every reason to do so, that Kumar had conned them - not that I'm suggesting that's what he was actually trying to do - but that's the way his actions would have been interpreted

Against that backdrop Tests between England and India would have descended into absolute farce - neither side would trust the other and would look for every technical niggle they could - do we really want the game played like that?

No of course we don't so just like Tony Greig and Mike Denness did in the same situation back in 1974 they reinstated the batsman

 

[grecian]

Classy.

Indeed, and as you said before, practically every English poster said it was a terrible decision by Colly. So the basic point being made here by 8anjitk is twaddle.