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Devgupt,
It is hard enough to keep up with a flood of self-righteous & deluded comments, let alone when they are put in multiple posts.
I'm glad you brought up Darren Lehman, as it is a classic example of the sort of double standard I am talking about.
His comments were not made on the field & were not directed at anyone specifically. He immediately apologised & accepted his punishment like a man. He did not deny or pretend he didn't say it. Australians did not claim some 'KGB-like' conspiracy. The ACB did not throw a tantrum. In fact, they made him go to counselling to make sure he understood why what he had done was wrong.
Personally I think he got off lightly, but that was up to the officials. Other than that it sounds like a good example of Australia taking the issue seriously. Pity India can't grow up & do the same.
As for my comments on skill, that is very much what this is about. India is losing & they don't like it. Instrad of getting on with the game they are making excuses for their own failings. It is the loser's way.
And Latif, how on earth am I supposed to comment on something I haven't even seen? According to the description he dropped the ball & regathered it. When did this happen during the Sydney test?
In Melbourne Ponting refused to claim a catch he felt had not carried. There are numerous examples of Australians having done this over the past decade, often in situations where they could have claimed the catch & no one would have been the wiser. In 1987 the career of Australian keeper Greg Dyer ended when he claimed a catch that he clearly knew had not carried. If you think you have a point here I can assure you there isn't one.
One thing strikes me, however. Mike Proctor was the match referee then as he is now. There have been clear implacations in the comments of many posters here that Proctor is biased in his ruling in Sydney. If so, why would you use one of his judgements as an example? If he was biased against Harbhajan, why not Latif? This is the problem, you see, when logic is abandoned in favour of fevered conspiracy theories.
As I said before, a bunch of whining hypocrites. When Australia sledges it is a threat to the game, when India does it it is 'schoolboyish'. When an Indian gets a bad decision it is a conspiracy, when an Aussie gets one it didn't even happen.
And just in case you feel I am picking on India, I'm not. Sth Africa are even worse. it took us beating them 6-0 for them to stop complaining about umpiring, sledging etc. (though they sledge as much as us). They too are losers, and will remain so while ever they keep making excuses for not being good enough.
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