Mr. Marman: Your excellent summary is marred by some obvious flaws. The Umpiring was biased from statistical point of view. If the umpire was unbised the bad decisions will favor both team equally. When 7 out of 8 bad decisons go against India, the probability of it being an innocent mistake goes down to less than 1%. In most scientific papers 95% confidence is good enough, here we reached 99%. Why do you think it is unbiased?
If Hartbhajan called Symonds a monkey he deserves to be punished. However, as Mr. Panicker points out only three people know what happened - Symonds, Harbhajan and Tendulkar. It is two against one. Since Australians are not known for playing fair, it appears to be a thinly veiled attempt to exclude Harbhajan who is in top form. Mr. Symonds admits that he made a "crack" at Singh. What was that crack? Australia invented sledging and they are proud of it. I have seen it described by Australians as mind game etc. Why are they crying when they get sledged? If Mr. Symmonds is particularly sensitive to being called a monkey, it seems to be an ideal way to sledge him. I find sledging disgusting and it should be totally banned. But Australians cannot complain when they are hoisted by their own petard.
