My respect for a lot of Australia members here has fallen greatly. I used to think they are nice fellas. Some Aussies (About a handful) have posted well, others have just really dissapointed me that this is how they genuinely feel and that they have to flame others to get thier point across.
And many of the Indians were no better, also resorting to posting nothing but flame and hate filled posts, and even to the extent of leaving the site in protest. What good would that do?
But it would be foolish to say the Aussies did nothing wrong. As it seeems, they are the only ones to think so. These articles can be very enlightining:
http://gulf.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/current/story/329708.html
http://gulf.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/current/story/329711.html
http://gulf.cricinfo.com/ci/content/current/url/232010.html
http://gulf.cricinfo.com/talk/content/current/multimedia/329472.html (Podcast)
Now, we don't hate the Aussies. First off, we expressed that if Harbhajan did say something offensive to you and can stand to get banned, then Hogg should recieve the same punishment for saying something offensive to us. The Aussies didn't (And shouldn't) have had anything to do with this. If anything, our greiviances were with the match refree and the ICC for thinking that Symonds, Ponting and Clarke's word was better than Harbhajan, Tendulkar and Kumble's word without any proof.
But why we do hate the Aussies is summed up beautifully here:
In his column in the same paper titled "I did the right thing by the game", Ponting said everyone in the Australian team knows how important the spirit of cricket is to the way they play. Not on the evidence of the Sydney Test, with the contentious catching rulings, sledging, poor sportsmanship, persistent appeals on flagging umpires, and ungracious celebrations.
Not to mention insulting our religion in your newspaper.
And then the Aussie members here actually have the gall to say that India are being whinging crybabies? I mean, c'mon. That is just weak.
