The Sydney Morning Herald ran an editorial saying that it could sense the bad aura around the Australian team. %u201CApparently it%u2019s fine for Australian players to question the masculinity of opposing players, the legitimacy of their birth, or the faithfulness of their wives, and for those who played in apartheid-era South Africa not to feel any embarrassment, but now Australia goes to the cricket court at the drop of a racist jibe,%u201D it says.
Australia%u2019s rebuilding process coincided with other teams realising that this was the right time to do the catching up. In turn, it has fuelled the current Australian team%u2019s desperation to keep winning. The first time the %u2018spirit of the game%u2019 was put to test in Sydney was when Harbhajan Singh and Sachin Tendulkar were leading an Indian revival which threatened their domination in the game, and it happened in the dying hours of the match as the Indians were fighting hard to stop the 16th consecutive win.
