One of friends wrote in this column regarding Symonds response to questions put by Rameez Raja.The answers from Symonds were so cold from a players of his calibre and talent. ICC should take note of this and also the taunts the Indians and Sri Lankan players have to face during their visit to Australia. Iam really surprised at the behaviour of ICC officials not to reprimand and suspand a few of the Australian players so that learn on field as well as off field behaviour. Australians think that they are the boss. Let me say that the times have changed and the Australians will have to face this or else have to come in line with the mannarism including IAN CHAPPLE, the elder brother of Greg Chapple who tried his best to destroy the INDIAN Cricket. Where was Mr. Ponting when Monty Panesar, the born Indian, was being continuously taunted during Englands last visit to Australia. Ponting should be taken to the Discplinary committee room and taught in a rightful manner. Whenever a boundary was hit by the Indian players in the Future Cup, most of the Australians threw the remarks on the Indian batsmen. Chris Broad should take note of this while submitting his report to ICC. Keep up India and hit boudaries allround the wickets to counter this taunt behaviour of the Australians.
RE:Symonds behaviour alongwith rest of Australian Cricketers
by raviprolu rajasekhar Sarma on Oct 18, 2007 01:37 PM Permalink
I fully agree with your views. Why should the asian teams feel lower to any other white skinned country players in cricket. It is not the taunting alone, even the umpires are scared of these teams. Look at umpiring decison in many recent mathces between india or any other asian team with england / australia / south africa / newzealand. The number of faults they find with asian player in uncomparable to their observation of asian players. Even a small issue of declaring a ball going down the leg side in one day internationals cannot be called a wide inspite of clear replays showing the nature and direction of the ball.
What can BCCI or PCb or SCB do when we do not have unity among our countries. Inspite of being the countries that draw maximumcrowds for these matches we do not have the guts to put our foot down and ask the ICC to go to dogs in such instances.
