And by that I mean that they are uncouth, uncivilized, jealous, envious, sore losers, poor sportsmen. Ricky Ponting says that India have got carried away with the Twenty20 win. If he believes that the tournament wasn’t that important why the bloody hell was a full strength Australian squad sent to participate. That was my first point. Second point, he says that some of the youngsters will have to make way for the seniors and that its unfortunate. Well when was the last time an 18-20 year old Australian played an international game. Let me think…. Not in the last decade.

Andrew Symonds says, “I think we have been pretty humble in the way we have gone about it and personally I think they have got far too carried away with their celebrations. It has definitely sparked passion inside of us.” Well you have not really been humble, Andrew, rather you have been humbled by a bunch of youngsters whose total combined experience is less than Adam Gilchrist and Ponting.

Ponting goes on to say that its easy for the Australians now as they are going to play Sachin, Saurav and Dravid as they have played them before. What he fails to mention is that the Australian support staff would be working overtime to plan their strategies against these very three. Oh, and did he forget that these three are among the top 5 highest scoring ODI batsmen.

To see the “World Champions” stoop to such low levels time and again makes me wonder if they really deserve to be champions at all. Yes, they play hard, aggressive cricket. But to interfere and/or pass comments on how another country celebrates its own victories plainly speaks of jealousy and envy. To think that the total combined salary of these Australian cricketers would be less than what the BCCI awarded 15 players would also not have gone down well with the “World Champions”.

I have never heard any Indian skipper, barring perhaps Saurav Ganguly, to say stuff like this ever. But Ganguly was a shrewd diplomat and he never used to say anything that would hurt/insult another person’s sentiments. I am just waiting for the Big 3’s bats to do the talking and let’s see if Ponting’s men can walk the talk this time as with comments like these, his team better be prepared for an extra hostile crowd and an extra determined Indian team.

As the Australian saying goes, “Ricky Ponting - You bloody idiot”.

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