Two sides of elbowing at Lords

A lot of blogs around have been sympathetic to the so called young Pakistan team, who according to Pak bloggers can make history tonite. I don’t know if they can or cannot. If they had one of Inzy, Yo and Yo they could have thought of it, but with the current lineup and given their frail nature and assumed supremacy in T20, its huge to expect them to win this Test match. Patience is a virtue that does not ebb in the team from any quarter.  The captain is such a irresponsible jerk who knows just one way to play. He might be a good man manager or a very good motivator, but if he doesnot show richness in his scorecards, he would go out soon.

 

His ugly hoists in the first innings when time and situation needed a strong vigil on the crease, the man went for biggies and while few of them landed out of the boundary, one of them was bad enough to get him back to the pavilion.

 

Aamer has been reprimanded by Chris Broad for running into Ponting and then supposedly elbowed by Ricky Ponting.

 

Ricky Ponting is not the most famous man in India after what he did in Sydney 2008. A lot of blog posts are dedicated advising him better behavior and trashing Chris Broad’s advice to Aamer.  My point is whatever Ponting did was not correct, but was Aamer right in doing what he did ? And he has done in 2^nd consecutive game against Australia. Was it deliberate? Was it instant blood boil reaction after having dismissed one of the modern great? Whatever it was, Aamer’s running close to Ponting was not very welcome.

 

Ponting elbowed Aamer asking him to stay out of his personal space. Tendulkar and Sehwag have pointed a bit meekly to Sreesanth to stay away in wild celebrations from them after taking wickets in different domestic games (Challengers and all).

 

Sreesanth is not the most noble man around when it comes to antics and show-offs. Neither is Harbhajan Singh or any other modern day bowler.

 

Its also true that Ponting is often got away after showing not so desired behavior as a captain and his gestures on the field. Its also true that Pakistani players are no saints either.  They are subdued, comical and evoke pity and laughter (thanks to Butt) is another issue altogether.  

 

Some of the criticism directed at Ponting is a bit too much and other thing baffles me is none of my fellow Indian bloggers have written a word on Aamer’s continued tendency to run into batsmen knowingly. What if he would have run into say a Sehwag or a Gambhir or even Rahul Dravid?   Fabs would have dead played him, but he would have received similar piece of mind as Ponting from other men like Gambhir or Yuvraj or any other young Indian cricketer. 

 

If Ponting was at fault, then so was Aamer. And most of bloggers have seen just one side of picture, not the other one.