CWG 2022: Are Indian players being cheated? After the long jumper Murali Sreeshankar, now there is a ruckus with the women’s hockey team

New Delhi: Commonwealth Games 2022 is being held in Birmingham, England. Five thousand players from about 72 countries have gathered in this great game of sports. For this multi-sport event, every four years, many countries participate in the race for the event, in which this time Birmingham has got a chance to host, but in the meantime some such incidents have also come to the fore due to which some controversy has arisen. Especially players have to bear the brunt of this, including Indian long jumper Murali Sreeshankar and India’s women’s hockey team.

On the eighth day of the Commonwealth Games, the Indian women’s hockey team suffered a 0-3 defeat against Australia in a controversial penalty shootout. Due to this defeat in the semi-finals, India is now out of the race for gold and silver medals. At the same time, Team India will take on New Zealand for the bronze medal. Although of course India had to bear the brunt of the wrong decision of the umpire, but Indian team captain Savita Poonia won hearts after the match. Savita is definitely disappointed after the gold and silver race is out but she is now preparing the team for the bronze medal.

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How did you miss the penalty shootout?

In the last minutes of the match, India equalized Australia with a goal from Vandana Katariya. After this, the penalty shootout Indian team trailed Australia. However, the fate of the team was not with him either. Actually Australia was given the first chance in the penalty shootout. During this, Ambrosia Malone’s attempt was stopped by goalkeeper Savita Poonia with her agility to create a great opportunity for the team, but during this time the clock was not started, due to which the umpire canceled that penalty shootout of Australia. He was given a second chance.

There was no fault of Team India in this. Here the responsibility of the organizers and the Hockey Federation was completely made, but despite this the decision was in Australia’s favor and Ambrosia Malone in the second chance ensured the team’s victory by converting it into a goal. In this way, after losing 0-3 in the semi-finals, they are out of the race for gold and silver medals. On the other hand, the Indian team will face New Zealand for the bronze medal.

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Indian team preparing for bronze

After the loss against Australia due to a time clock glitch during the penalty shootout in the match, Savita said, “It will take us some time to recover from this loss.” It was a close match. We worked hard but now we have the last chance for the bronze medal.

He said, ‘As a captain and a senior player, it is my responsibility to encourage the players. I now want to forget this defeat and prepare for the team against New Zealand. This match is very important for us for the bronze medal.

Well done Savita Poonia, well done daughters! Don’t shed tears on wrong decision, you have won medal for us
Mulri Sreeshankar also became a victim of controversial decision

This is not the first time that Indian players have suffered losses in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. Earlier, long jumper Murali Sreeshankar had also missed out on the gold medal. Murali Sreeshankar was declared foul twice due to the new take off system. Prior to this, the take-off board was manually monitored with an officer on board and a red or white flag was raised to declare whether a jumper had violated the rule.

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World Athletics recently introduced a digital take-off board, in which a laser beam acts as a take-off line. Thus crossing or breaking that laser beam may disqualify the jumper’s attempt. So, Murali Sreeshankar’s two jumps on Thursday were declared wrong by this new system, even as the athletes found themselves surprised by the margin by which they were shown crossing the line.

To this Sreeshankar said, ‘I was very surprised by the close margin by which I was shown crossing the border. It was too small.’ As per arrangement, Sreeshankar’s toe was one millimeter across the line and his jump, which would have been within 8.30, was declared illegal.