Where did you go???

Well that's the end of India's winning streak while chasing. They lost the match by just one run. Kudos to the West Indies, not a single person gave them a chance of winning even a single game against the mighty Indians... Lest we forget the are the current ICC Champions trophy winners. Well it just goes to say how unpredictable this game is... Anyone can win a One day Match.. But!!! This blog is not about the outcome of the game persay... It is about a really interesting incident that took place during the West Indian innings...

Irfan Pathan is running and bowls to Ramnaresh Sarwan who taps the ball into the onside and goes for a run, the ball is beautifully fielded by the Indian youngster Suresh Raina who proceeds to throw the stumps down. Sarwan had his nerves about him and tried to get back to his crease.. Well it's a close run thing... All the players including Virender Sehwag who was standing at square leg turn to Square Leg umpire to appeal...Only to find to their surprise that he is not there... The Umpire Billy Doctrove was instead at the far end the ground literally facing the umpire at the stumps... Our West Indian umpire had gone down to the boundary ropes at the end of the previous over to say something to the groundsmen and the umpire at the bowlers end Arshad Rauf called for the next over to start without noticing that his partner was not on the field... Well, even though Sarwan was in as shown by T.V. replays, Rauf called the ball dead and asked the bowlers to restart the over...Sarwan was in so there was too much controversy over the ball being called dead, but what if he was out of his crease, ans the ball had been declared dead, would the Indian team have agreed to the decision...

But the rest of the over was very interesting to see Sehwag standing in his position at square leg shoulder to shoulder with Doctrove to macke sure he does not run away again somewhere I guess.. And in the next over when Doctrove was at the bowler's end and the batsmen pinced a leg bye, he as so confused by the incidents that had just transpired that he lifted one leg as a signal and then he lifted his other leg... When an appeal was made against the batsman he still looked a little confused... But he got his wits about himself soon enough and business as usual resumed....

This must be one of the funniest moments in cricket in the recent past after Sreesanth dancing efforts on taking his first wicket in a one day game....

Cheers,
Rahul....