Procter bowled off the wrong foot

Aussies always like to vilify others...their so called way of playing the game consists if taunting others by their skin color, race and country...I am sure that if an aussie were reported to Proctor you would have done same analysis that the coumnsit has done here....So stop this typical white_skin and white_ass finger pointing...If you are an aussie you shuld be ashamed to even born in that part of the world....Bloody disgrace on human kind, yeah that''s what you clowns are... ( Posted by CounterOz on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 12:41 )  

Dear Paul,

We are making a mountain out of a molehill.International Cricket fans feel Australian Cricketers have been high on Gamesmanship and low on Sportsmanship.They have been sledging for years now and got away with it.Harbhajan did not act in a vacuum and must have been provoked.Rightly both should have been banned.
( Posted by Goldchest on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 22:18 )  

The Australian team are master sledges and that is not something to necessarily be proud of. However there is a clear line between sledging (including swearing)and racially vilifying someone. Racism has no place in sport because it has ramifications far beyond the field. It promotes predjudices and ignorance (see CounterOz above). Noone wants to label Harbijan as a racist person or ruin his career but if he was found to have made a racist remark, he should face the consequences.

Aussie Darren Lehmann was banned for racially vilifying the Sri Lankans in 2003. Cricket Australia let the process follow it''s course and when he was suspended they condemned his comments & racism in general. That is the least we can ask from BCCI as opposed to holding the series to ransom unless Harbijan is cleared. It reeks of using power to dictate terms to less influential cricketing nations.
( Posted by Paul Silksy on Thursday , January 10, 2008 at 04:28 )  

The Australian team are master sledges and that is not something to necessarily be proud of. However there is a clear line between sledging (including swearing)and racially vilifying someone. Racism has no place in sport because it has ramifications far beyond the field. It promotes predjudices and ignorance (see CounterOz above). Noone wants to label Harbijan as a racist person or ruin his career but if he was found to have made a racist remark, he should face the consequences.

Aussie Darren Lehmann was banned for racially vilifying the Sri Lankans in 2003. Cricket Australia let the process follow it''s course and when he was suspended they condemned his comments & racism in general. That is the least we can ask from BCCI as opposed to holding the series to ransom unless Harbijan is cleared. It reeks of using power to dictate terms to less influential cricketing nations.
( Posted by Paul Silksy on Thursday , January 10, 2008 at 04:28 )  

Aussies always like to vilify others...their so called way of playing the game consists if taunting others by their skin color, race and country...I am sure that if an aussie were reported to Proctor you would have done same analysis that the coumnsit has done here....So stop this typical white_skin and white_ass finger pointing...If you are an aussie you shuld be ashamed to even born in that part of the world....Bloody disgrace on human kind, yeah that''s what you clowns are... ( Posted by CounterOz on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 12:41 )  

Dear Paul,

We are making a mountain out of a molehill.International Cricket fans feel Australian Cricketers have been high on Gamesmanship and low on Sportsmanship.They have been sledging for years now and got away with it.Harbhajan did not act in a vacuum and must have been provoked.Rightly both should have been banned.
( Posted by Goldchest on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 22:18 )  

The Australian team are master sledges and that is not something to necessarily be proud of. However there is a clear line between sledging (including swearing)and racially vilifying someone. Racism has no place in sport because it has ramifications far beyond the field. It promotes predjudices and ignorance (see CounterOz above). Noone wants to label Harbijan as a racist person or ruin his career but if he was found to have made a racist remark, he should face the consequences.

Aussie Darren Lehmann was banned for racially vilifying the Sri Lankans in 2003. Cricket Australia let the process follow it''s course and when he was suspended they condemned his comments & racism in general. That is the least we can ask from BCCI as opposed to holding the series to ransom unless Harbijan is cleared. It reeks of using power to dictate terms to less influential cricketing nations.
( Posted by Paul Silksy on Thursday , January 10, 2008 at 04:28 )  

The Australian team are master sledges and that is not something to necessarily be proud of. However there is a clear line between sledging (including swearing)and racially vilifying someone. Racism has no place in sport because it has ramifications far beyond the field. It promotes predjudices and ignorance (see CounterOz above). Noone wants to label Harbijan as a racist person or ruin his career but if he was found to have made a racist remark, he should face the consequences.

Aussie Darren Lehmann was banned for racially vilifying the Sri Lankans in 2003. Cricket Australia let the process follow it''s course and when he was suspended they condemned his comments & racism in general. That is the least we can ask from BCCI as opposed to holding the series to ransom unless Harbijan is cleared. It reeks of using power to dictate terms to less influential cricketing nations.
( Posted by Paul Silksy on Thursday , January 10, 2008 at 04:28 )  

Yes Scott you are right, Aussie team stays put and play hard even if they are out and that sounds like a good sporting spirit as in case of Clark, Symonds and ponting, not to mention that he was the one who was crying on wankede stadium when Aussies lost the match and complain the pitch and that was like a 5 year old baby crying.
And if you can convince that it was a mere co-incidence that poor decisions were made 9 times against India in the sydney test, then i will go by your words as an INdian ( Posted by Kiran on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 11:55 )  

You cann''t make judgement on what Harbajan told.. You people dint know how to come out of the pits..blaming Harbajan wont help you.. I like Aussies aggressive cricket and not their arrogance.. Its definitely not sporitng to claim claim catches that were not.. Its disgracing to see the two Aussies- Ponting and Clarke - telling they were 100% sure of the catches.. This way you can win any number of matches!! ( Posted by Raj on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 12:25 )  

Dear Scott, Does it hurt the sentiments of Australian players when one of their mates is ALLEGEDLY called Monkey? How quickly they forgot that the great Glenn McGrath called Sanath Jaisurya a "BLACK MONKEY" after being hit for four. Is Jaisurya not human? Wouldn''t it have hurt his feelings? The fact is Australians have been dishing it out to other teams for years under the garb of "MENTAL DISINTEGRATION". Now players like Sreesanth and Harbhajan Singh are giving it back to them and they don''t know how to handle it because it''s never happened to them before. It seems their minds have been disintegrated This whole thing wouldn''t have escalated to this point if Ponting had accepted Kumble''s apology offer and advice of not pressing charges against Harbhajan after the third day of match. Instead he ran to big daddy Mike to complain. So you see my friend, it''s the Aussies who acted worse than 10yr old boys. Even school boys wouldn''t complain about something as insignificant as Monkey-calling. ( Posted by Vicky on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 15:49 )  

My dear Scott,in your words,Australia is doing the right thing?
In recent one day series in India,which catches ,Indian fielders have claimed which are similar ,as claimed by Ponting of Dhoni & Clarke of Ganguly.You are conceding that You are fighting,but not by right means,just by influencing & pressurising the UMPIRES.You people have a bad history,for a win,you can go to any extent,example is underarm bowling,taking the name of rules of game,killing the spirit of game.My dear ,it is game,it is not war.Sensible people in your country are realising that Australian cricketers are wrong.So,in every opinion poll in Australia,it is clear that Aussies cricketers are not playing the game in a fair way,echoing the words of Kumble ( Posted by Sanjay on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 15:31 )  

Yes Scott you are right, Aussie team stays put and play hard even if they are out and that sounds like a good sporting spirit as in case of Clark, Symonds and ponting, not to mention that he was the one who was crying on wankede stadium when Aussies lost the match and complain the pitch and that was like a 5 year old baby crying.
And if you can convince that it was a mere co-incidence that poor decisions were made 9 times against India in the sydney test, then i will go by your words as an INdian ( Posted by Kiran on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 11:55 )  

You cann''t make judgement on what Harbajan told.. You people dint know how to come out of the pits..blaming Harbajan wont help you.. I like Aussies aggressive cricket and not their arrogance.. Its definitely not sporitng to claim claim catches that were not.. Its disgracing to see the two Aussies- Ponting and Clarke - telling they were 100% sure of the catches.. This way you can win any number of matches!! ( Posted by Raj on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 12:25 )  

Dear Scott, Does it hurt the sentiments of Australian players when one of their mates is ALLEGEDLY called Monkey? How quickly they forgot that the great Glenn McGrath called Sanath Jaisurya a "BLACK MONKEY" after being hit for four. Is Jaisurya not human? Wouldn''t it have hurt his feelings? The fact is Australians have been dishing it out to other teams for years under the garb of "MENTAL DISINTEGRATION". Now players like Sreesanth and Harbhajan Singh are giving it back to them and they don''t know how to handle it because it''s never happened to them before. It seems their minds have been disintegrated This whole thing wouldn''t have escalated to this point if Ponting had accepted Kumble''s apology offer and advice of not pressing charges against Harbhajan after the third day of match. Instead he ran to big daddy Mike to complain. So you see my friend, it''s the Aussies who acted worse than 10yr old boys. Even school boys wouldn''t complain about something as insignificant as Monkey-calling. ( Posted by Vicky on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 15:49 )  

My dear Scott,in your words,Australia is doing the right thing?
In recent one day series in India,which catches ,Indian fielders have claimed which are similar ,as claimed by Ponting of Dhoni & Clarke of Ganguly.You are conceding that You are fighting,but not by right means,just by influencing & pressurising the UMPIRES.You people have a bad history,for a win,you can go to any extent,example is underarm bowling,taking the name of rules of game,killing the spirit of game.My dear ,it is game,it is not war.Sensible people in your country are realising that Australian cricketers are wrong.So,in every opinion poll in Australia,it is clear that Aussies cricketers are not playing the game in a fair way,echoing the words of Kumble ( Posted by Sanjay on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 15:31 )