I admit I had my tongue in my cheek as I wrote this piece!

However, chris, you are welcome to your head-in-the-sand approach when you say, “We, or Ponting, Hayden and Symonds have not been the same since Sydney after being forced by our own board to bend over to appease India…. and the money.”

You need to wake up and smell the roses.

Let’s deal with facts:

F1- Mike Proctor is kicked out. Nowhere to be seen. Conclusion: Proctor conducted a kangaroo court; a sham and a disgrace.
F2- Steve Bucknor is gone. Conclusion: He stuffed up Sydney and robbed the Indians in Sydney.
F3- A proper judge conducted a proper appeal hearing in Adelaide and exonerated Harbhajan Singh. Conclusion: There was no evidence to support a claim from Symonds that he was abused.
F4- The catch-treaty was junked. Conclusion: The Indians do not trust the Australians to be honest and above-board when the pressure is on them.

The above are facts and the conclusions are not mere hand-waves and assertions.

You are welcome to your wild conspiracy theories. But if you stop burying your head in the sand, you will look at the verifiable facts and work off them. The facts point to a highly plausible conclusion that although India was robbed in Sydney in terms of the result, luckily, the appeals process ensured that India wasn’t robbed twice.

And here’s what Peter Roebuck writes in todays’ Age: “India’s great players have outlasted their counterparts, besides which Australia had not defeated these opponents legitimately since the Boxing Day Test match. Betrayed at the SCG, India has won one and drawn two of the ensuing Tests. Moreover, they had grown stronger even as the visitors faded. India’s opening batsmen and new ball bowlers dominated this contest. None of them played in Melbourne. Defeat has been coming.”

And before you knock Roebuck, he has been already been quoted today by Greg Baum in The Age!

Boy !! Keep watching..

Keep watching mate…
Its simply cricket and Passion for cricket..

there is nothing like new world cricket.. I’m afraid OZs are focussing too much this new world stuff and leaving their cricket behind.

Opinions are opinions.

I am Australian and we woz murdered.

But you Indian guys! Now you want it both ways.

Aussies need to shut up when out and head straight to the pavilion.

But after crying wolf now want to focus on what should happen to Australians and officials but not on what the obvious transgressions by Indians were.

Too good and by someway India. But not both ways.

It’s lonely at the top, if you can get there….. and stay there.

Lose the chip on your shoulder.

…and Aussies! Cop it in the neck. They never, ever last long these blokes and money wont change anything.

We, or Ponting, Hayden and Symonds have not been the same since Sydney after being forced by our own board to bend over to appease India…. and the money.

Let’s play the game hard and just see who is the real evil in the brave new cricket world.

I agree with Mohan and I am neither anti-Australian nor am I a prick!

I assume you are Australian.

You are the first Aussie to say, “Lets let the cricket do the talking.” Wonder why? Oh wait. I had a look at the scoreboard. It reads India-1, Australia-0!

Is that when the moral-cops come out of the woodwork in Australia? Up until now, every hole was doing the talking in the Australian team. Now you want the cricket to do the talking? Its too late mate. You got to let the shit that you flung stick to ya before we all let the cricket do the talking. Enjoy it for a while!

I’ll leave it at that. Lets let the cricket do the talking. I thnk from indias point of view kumble should be left out as mishra is much more of a wicket taking bowler who spins the ball sharply thus much more likely to trouble the opposition. But with Kumble having 600+ test wickets under his belt and being ‘captain’ of the side this will not be easy leave him out. Both spinners have been named in the squad.

For Australia i think drop Camreon White…hes not ready for international cricket simple. And the same applies for Peter Siddle. I think if u dont have a good spinner fit then atleast play a quick that will pick up wickets than having a pretend spinner on paper. I say the aussies should go with Lee, Johnson, Tait and Hilffenhouse. See how the indians handle that pace! I was also VERY SUPRISED that katich didnt get a bowl. Hez a more than useful wrist spinner who has taken many wickets in first class cricket, why he didnt get a bowl has got me ‘stumped’. The accuracy and presistence of stuart clark was greatly missed by the aussies.

Broad should have just called him in for censure and nothing more – Charging him is a bit over the broad, I mean board