That's a rich stance to adopt, particularly with Michael Clarke's catch that never was against Sourav Ganguly, being one of the more volatile moments of the Sydney Test. Immediately after that game, Kumble had vowed a review of that agreement, and the consensus arrived at on Monday on going back to the umpires on such calls was no more than expected, given the Indian captain's strong feeling of having been betrayed.

"It's been scrapped as of yesterday," Ponting admitted on Tuesday when asked if the agreement was off. "That wasn't the way I wanted to play. But the feeling through the Indian team, and probably not just Anil's thoughts on it, were that they would like it to go back and be in the hands of the umpires. I've had a chat with the umpires about the whole thing and they'll be endeavouring to make the call between themselves on the field rather than referring everything. That's the way it's going to be for the rest of the series."

Informed of Ponting's reaction on the issue, the Indian captain then said, "We have been playing with the old system all throughout, referring it to the third umpire. It's best to leave it to the judgement of the umpires, and to use the technology available."

Asked by an Aussie journalist if that wasn't putting more pressure on the umpires, Kumble could so easily have said, 'Then why don't you ask your players walk on nicking?' Instead, he replied, "This is professional sport, and everyone is under equal pressure. In that sense, the players are under tremendous pressure to perform. As it is, I had said after the last Test that the agreement will be reviewed. That's the way it is going to be, going forward.