Howzzat Ump?

"Dude! We need to break this partnership" So said Vaughan to Collingwood when Sachin and Saurav looked like running away with the game.

"Err ..umm ..how? I am not really the best bowler you know!" - Collingwood

"But you look like the guy who could get the ump on ur side"

"Well .. ok ..if you insist!"

Which game is this you ask? The one in which the umpire gave a decision a blind man would have gotten away with - while Collingwood was bowling. Hmmm - but.... doesnt that like happen in every match now?

I suppose that Vaughan gets frustrated with seeing Sachin and Saurav bat - then he looks around and says that Colly seems like the only one whose pace will make the umpire sleep and then make the umpire slip in that attrocious decision. You got to forgive the umpire though - rudely waken up from a nap by the loud appealing - and then the immense pressure for him to make a decision. He probably sees Prior mouthing a mouthful at him and you have to forgive him for raising his finger.

Collingwood too has to be lauded for balancing his "wickets" and picking me Sachin and Saurav alternately. Atleast he is fair and equitable in his dealings.

On the other hand - the umpires seem to have decided that as a judgement giver - they are rightfully annointed by God to deal justice. So while God saved India in the form of rains at Lords - as annointed ambassadors of heavenly justice - the umpires have taken it upon them to "even things out".

That they cant tell even from odd is the real travesty