How Umpires rob the Money Paying Public

It is with mounting anger, frustration that I writing this note. So pardon the French!

It is a Sunday. I am watching a cricket test match between India and Australia. Like many idiots in this great land of ours, I too got up at 5ish to see India battle it out down under. The first bummer was that India was not batting when I woke up. That was because the Aussie captain thought it was worthwhile to bat on. He had a plan. He did not want to lose. And how could he lose? He had a good bowling group and more importantly he had two complete jack-asses being umpires.

I cannot imagine in the recent times when you are watching a match and the Umpires taking it away from you literally. It is the days of the neutral umpires. So there is no nationality or jingoism that is clouding the decision. It is just plain bias, incompetence that comes into play. How many times do we endure this? In the old times, when people watched and we were all jobless and in a poor market third world country this was okay. We had to say the Gods were not kind. But not today! We are still a poor country but the market is not small. There is money involved in advertisement. When incompetence rules the roost, it is robbing the public a good contest. If the Indians lose because of a bad performance, we will watch the next match because of the proverbial curse called hope. But if it is the same umpires continue to officiate, why would I watch something other than cricket....why would I watch two selectively blind man do their thing? Why would I advertise in a set-up and useless contest?