Cricket-Monkey play between Indians and the Aussies

The Aussies have been the worst sledgers in recent cricket matches and now they seem to have got some back. And they don't like it.
The match was played in a very bad atmosphere continuing on from the acrimony generated during the Aussie's recent tour of India.
Symonds has been on the receiving end for a while and may be the Aussie authorities wanted to make an example of Harbhajan and used the match referee.
But what was the clinching proof of Harbhajan's guilt?It would be interesting to find that out.
If the punishment has been decided only on the words of Symonds, then it is not enough proof of guilt.
The Indians are equally passionate about their players and they did not like the bad umpiring which probably lost them the match.
But all said and done, on the field it looks like the Aussies are the better team and one has to accept that, as evidenced by their all-round performance in batting and bowling. But fielding and catching, that is a different story.
And finally the message to the Players should be-'Quit the Monkey-play and Please play Cricket'


Update on 19/01/2008

Looks like they played cricket properly at Perth.

Congrats to India on the win.
They showed the Aussies, didn't they.
Well done boys.

However I am surprised that the Aussies did not win this one, though history was against them. Seems no team had gone on to get more that 400 in the last innings to win a test in a long time.
But if there was any team that could have done it, in my view, it would have to the the Old Pakistani Team lead by Javed Miandad and the present Aussie Team led by Ricky Ponting. I hope they get the challenge again soon to show that World what they are capable of. Best of Luck.