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'Umps give Oz 2-0 lead'

Cricket AFP, New Delhi
India media on Monday panned umpires Steve Bucknor and Mark Benson for their decision-making in the crucial Sydney Test, accusing them of gifting the match to Australia.
"Umpires give Oz 2-0 lead," screamed a headline in the Times of India, squarely blaming the officials for India's 122-run defeat to Australia in the second Test at Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Sunday.
The daily said had the rules allowed, the man of the match award would have taken into
account the performance of the umpires.
"If the rule were more fair, Benson would have won it in a close race against Bucknor. Aussie captain Ricky Ponting would surely concede to his mates that the two umpires did more than any of them to win this match for the home team," it said in a leading front page story.
The Hindustan Times was equally severe in its condemnation, detailing each of the umpiring decisions in the Test that gave Australia a record-equalling- 16th consecutive Test win under the headline "Fingers that killed India."
The newspaper said the win did no credit to Australia, "for what
happened over this Test was not a good advertisement for the world champions. It was just not cricket."
"Team India c Benson b Bucknor," read the headline in the Indian Express, which also lambasted the umpires.
"In a match where Venkatsai Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar kept their tryst with the Sydney Cricket Ground, umpire Steve Bucknor too managed to maintain his record," the paper said.
"After some very poor umpiring by Bucknor and Benson saw India go down by 122 runs and 0-2 in the series, skipper Anil Kumble, sources said, gave Bucknor a zero in his captain s report -- just what Sourav Ganguly did in the last
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meeting at the SCG four years ago," it said.
Terming the umpiring "sinful," the Express also said Benson and Bucknor had won the match for Australia.
The Test was marred by several contentious decisions, especially those involving Andrew Symonds who went on to score an unbeaten 162 and bag the man of the match award.
Bucknor ruled Symonds not out on 30 although TV replays showed the batsman getting a thick edge off paceman Ishant Sharma.
Symonds was also ruled not out by third umpire Bruce Oxenford after he failed to read several .replays of his stumping by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Indian team management said the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) would also lodge a formal complaint with the International Cricket Council over what they described as the" incompetent" umpiring of the Sydney Test.