A great cricketer like Rahul Dravid was treated extremely shabbily by the BCCI...inspite of the fact that he has rendered yeoman service to Indian cricket...but he did not take it personally!!
Symonds is stretching this a bit too far and is not being professional!! As a professional, he should take it more dispassionately and get on with his cricketing career!!
I personally think this is the way the Aussies try to put their opponents on the backfoot....it might just be a ploy to make the Indians lose their focus before the 4 test series in October!!
Go India Go...crush Aussie pride once and for all!!
Re: Symonds is being a bit too precious here!!
by Bhavik Babaria on Sep 05, 2008 10:26 AM
yeah,symonds' absence should be taken advantage at apex by indian team.
Re: Symonds is a disgrace
by anil babladi on Sep 05, 2008 12:51 AM
Rogue is not bhajji. It is Symonds. Because one, Symo instigated him. Because he did not understand bhajji's words was the main problem. Let us not forget Sachin is a man of honor and the ambassador of cricket. He said bhajji never said symo as monkey. So please stop blaming our heros.
What was bhajji's role in symmo not attending his team meeting. I cannot understand this link.andrew symmonds has been a bad boy of australian cricket even before and this may be a publicity campaign on his part to get some sympathy and support for his dubious behavior.
Re: Absolute rubbish
by anil babladi on Sep 05, 2008 12:52 AM
Naach naa nahi aayaa tho aangan theda varun bhayya. Every situation needs an excuse. So CA and Symo are taking this excuse.
If Symonds is outraged by the CA's decision to downgrade the level of charges against Bhajji then he is justified. In Australia Harbhajan has been saved by Tendulkar and in IPL when he slapped Sreeshanth , he was saved by Farook Engineer. It is not correct that a player behaves like a insane man on or off the field and gets away with it. Indain Board has erred in not banning him for life.
Re: Harbhajan singh- behaviour attitude
by anil babladi on Sep 05, 2008 12:55 AM
Venkat pardon my language, would you keep quite if someone misbehaves with you? No. Symo should not keep quite if Bhajji did it. But first, who did it? Symo did it. So it is him who should be banned for life. Bhajji is a character but not as much crooked like Symo.
Re: Harbhajan singh- behaviour attitude
by Guest on Sep 04, 2008 09:41 PM
What in the world are you talking about, banning harbhajan for life? Symonds episode is just an aligation, and is not proven, and there is no evidence either. As far as sreesnth's episode goes, it is not farook engineer that saved him, it was sreesanth him self backing off, and compromising with harbhajan. I do not see why harbhajan should be banned in the first place. Symonds has got issues, and he has to deal with them. he must have got badly hurt, when things didn't go per his liking during the sydney test episode and is carrying a chip on his shoulder, and it is as simple as that. as some one rightly brought up, if it has any thing to do with integrity, he wouldn't have participated in a bcci sponsored tournament
Re: Harbhajan singh- behaviour attitude
by Effortless on Sep 05, 2008 03:25 AM
You are wrong, Even if Sreesanth backs off (which he did not), slapping someone in front of millions of TV fans on cricket field is unacceptable behavior and needs to be condemned. For this act alone Bhajji should have been banned for at least 1 year. He was saved from the long ban, not by Sreesanth but by Kumble and Bindra. So Bhajji should feel himself lucky. On the other issue, if Symonds instigated Bhajji, then he was foolish to fall into the trap by uttering insanities (whatever they be).The Aussies knew Bhajji is vulnerable and short tempered so they instigated him into this and he foolishly fell into the trap.
