India should cancel Australia tour: Farooq
Jammu, Jan 6 (UNI) Suggesting team India to call off Australian tour against biased umpiring, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah today said team India should return.
Expressing anger over the attitude of the Australian cricket team and criticising the umpiring decisions in the second Test at Sydney, Dr Farooq Abdullah, who is also the president of Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) while speaking at the sidelines of the function here, said team India should not play the series and return home.
''The umpires absolutely played a negative role in the second Test, which is not appreciating. I think that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) should protest against the negative umpiring," Dr Farooq added.
The umpiring in the first Test had already indicated the troubles ahead for team India, Senior Abdullah said adding, ''Despite indications in the first Test, team India played in Sydney but it was unexpected in the second Test. Umpires remained biased throughout the five-day long match.
Dr
Abdullah,
also
a
member
of
BCCI,
said,
''I
will
personally
talk
to
BCCI
president
Sharad
Pawar
and
appeal
him
to
call
back
the
Indian
team
from
the
Australian
tour.
We
should
not
play
at
all.
The
wrong
judgements
are
not
acceptable
to
us
and
I
think
cancellation
of
tour
is
the
only
option
left."
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