India should be ready to get heckled too
Posted on Oct 20, 2007 at 14:09 | Updated Oct 21, 2007 at 17:04
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"It is very hard to do anything after the event because the crowd’s gone home and we don’t know who it was," Young had said then but the Australians sure expected more during their tour of India.
Indians getting under their skin
If Aussie players are waiting to sledge India, their spectators are planning to heckle them from the stands, and the media, which has been instrumental in highlighting each and every incident in India, is ready to have a go, does it mean that the Indians have actually got under the Australians’ skin?
One would think so. India and Australia had their fair share of needling each other over the years, but things definitely took a turn for the vigorous after the 2001 series that became famous for VVS Laxman’s knock of 281 in Kolkata.
Ganguly, a self-confessed admirer of Steve Waugh, frustrated his hero no end as he went in late for the toss time and again during that series. Around the same time, Michael Slater and Rahul Dravid as well as Ricky Ponting and Harbhajan Singh, too had episodes which went beyond mere banter.
Crying babies
The Australians are known to start sledging but cry foul when they get it back. They probably feel they have the prerogative of deciding where to draw the line.
Who can forget the Glenn McGrath-Ramnaresh Sarwan episode when the Aussie pace bowler started a verbal volley but could not digest it when it ended with a reply that was directed towards his wife.
When Steve Waugh was battling to save the match and series at Sydney in his last Test, Indian wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel asked for "one last slog-sweep" that the batsman was famous for. Waugh was quick to remind Patel of his seniority, saying that the glove-man was in diapers when Waugh had started playing international cricket.
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Posted By Steve+
I think Cricket has changed a lot...it is no more an Englishmans game, It is now in the hands of
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Posted By Alex
Truth to be told. India is most racist society in the world.500 million people live in poverty because caste politics.
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Posted By krishna
hay hay hay ask your self srk, ab,small b,ajy devgan, rani,kajol,ect are all colored do not discriminate yourself
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Posted By Jjaspal Patel
India may have had a society in which caste was, and probably still is, a consideration, but racism has not
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Posted By Amar
There is no point in playing like a good guy especially against Aussies. Just accept that you have to be
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