Re: Breaking news: Harbhajan banned for 3 tests!
Watch out for indian players giving it back to aussies word for word next 2 test.Alas there r too many soft players in indian side.indian team will surely be missing bhajji and sreeshant in next 2 test.:D
even if india lose matces atleast these two guys provide entertainment to viewers with their antics:D:D
Re: Breaking news: Harbhajan banned for 3 tests!
That's alright. It wasn't racist.
Re: Breaking news: Harbhajan banned for 3 tests!
thank God that Asad Rauf or Aleem Dar was not involved in the game ...warna tu Indian media main eik qayamat aa jatee with new dimension of criticism ! :)
Re: Breaking news: Harbhajan banned for 3 tests!
Well, Asad Rauf will be in the next game :)
Re: Breaking news: Harbhajan banned for 3 tests!
the BJP would have probably forced the Indian parliament to declare war on Pakistan 
Re: Breaking news: Harbhajan banned for 3 tests!
Anyways, the Indians are making Pathetic excuses to defend this racist Sardar
Harbhajan’s monkey taunt ‘not racist’
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23018045-5001505,00.html
THE group representing Indian Australians is surprised the term “monkey” directed at Australia’s Andrew Symonds is considered racist.
The Sydney-based United Indian Association (UIA) says it is deeply concerned at a three-match ban imposed on Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh for using the word.
UIA president Raj Natarajan said the group condemned racism in sport, but it was surprising Singh’s comments were viewed as racist.
“Considering that the Monkey God is one of the revered idols of Hindu mythology and worshipped by millions, it is surprising it was considered a racist term,” Mr Natarajan said in a statement.
“Even more surprising is that the word ‘monkey’ is considered by the match referee serious enough to slap a three-match ban on Harbhajan Singh.”
Mr Natarajan said many other more unsavoury words exchanged on the field went unnoticed.
He said UIA members felt the Australian team behaved in an unsporting way during Australia’s 122-run win over India in the second test at the SCG yesterday.
“It has to be said that in the Sydney Test their behaviour was unbecoming of a World Champion Cricket Team when they aimed to win at any cost,” he said.
“On the day, records seemed more important than sportsmanship and fair play. We see this as a sour victory for the Aussies.”
The remarks made to Symonds follow extensive vilification of him by Indian crowds during the Australian team’s tour of the country last year.
Indian spectators heckled Symonds, making monkey noises and holding up insulting placards, at least one of which blatantly referred to him as a monkey.
The UIA represents various migrant community groups of Indian origin in Australia.
Re: Breaking news: Harbhajan banned for 3 tests!
That is indeed pathetic.
But now that the BCCI has just learnt how to play the game hard and fair, it has supended the tour until the outcome of Bhajji’s case. There is no evidence proving Bhajji’s guilt.
Re: Breaking news: Harbhajan banned for 3 tests!
And here is Proof that the Monkey taunt is Racist and Indians are the worst spectators for Cricket
Good thing this whole episode happened against Australia and not against Sri Lanka or Pakistan or the the nature of Indian fans and their players would have never been exposed. :hehe:
Too bad the Caste system has gone to their heads
Ugliness of racism will not go away quietly
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23014716-5001505,00.html
THE sore is running again. The racism and cultural hostilities that marred Australia’s one-day series in India last October have infected the Test series and taken the focus from what was a great sporting contest.
This won’t go away easily.
Racism is always a difficult issue, but this case is exacerbated by the nationality of the accusers.
This, India will say, is the pot calling the kettle you know what.
How galling can it be for people who have suffered from racist and imperious attitudes from westerners throughout their history to suddenly see their fans and players so piously denounced?
Any denial or outrage from the Indian team, media or society at the apparent injustice is completely understandable.
Australians calling us racist? You must be kidding, baba. Weren’t you the mob that ran Dr Mohamed Haneef out of town? Or, if you want to get right down to it, what do the Tasmanian Aborigines think of the debate?
Jump into a Melbourne cab and ask an Indian taxi driver his thoughts.
Australia, of late, has gone through a rigorous education program at the university of political correctness. Sport has attempted to be proactive. The AFL leads the way, but it wasn’t until players such as Michael Long and Nicky Winmar took a stand that anything was done. It wasn’t that long ago.
Ask the Aborigines who played before then what it was like when racial abuse was considered a legitimate part of the game. Especially if you could get them to bite.
India has not addressed racism in its sport or society in the same way and is still milling in the mounting yard where Australia stood for most of its white history. Most Indians will deny it exists, especially if it is a westerner making accusations.
The whole monkey taunt crisis would never have happened if it wasn’t for a former NSW policeman, a South African journalist and an overheated group of fans at a one-day match in the back blocks of Vadodara (formerly Baroda) on October 11, 2007.
It was stinking hot. Fans were so desperate for a view of the game two had climbed a nearby communication tower and hung there on the needle spire, a good 30m in the air, all morning.
Andrew Symonds didn’t bat or bowl. He didn’t take a catch or make a run out. He fielded near the fence in front of a particularly hostile section of the crowd, who began to make monkey chants.
A solitary Australian fan - the former policeman - was in that part of the crowd when they started to chant. He called a South African journalist in the press box to ask why Symonds would be treated this way.
The fan, Tim - he does not want to be identified - then asked the crowd why they were doing it. One replied: “He looks like a monkey”.
Symonds had irritated Indian crowds by being involved in a number of on-field clashes with Sree Santh and Harbhajan Singh in early matches and the crowd had decided he was the enemy.
In the press box the South African journalist told a member of the Australian media and the story was out. Racism is a big story in Australian sport.
Cricket Australia officials were contacted immediately after the match and asked if a complaint had been filed, but this was the first they had heard of it.
Symonds was sought out and asked if the crowd had abused him, he appeared to have forgotten about it, but when reminded, he agreed there had been monkey chants and again shrugged it off.
He had not been too concerned during the match. In fact, he had made light of it and tried to win the crowd over.
The Australian media contacted match referee Chris Broad to see if a complaint had been made. It hadn’t. When the stories came out the match referee included it in his match report to the ICC and suddenly it was official.
All hell broke loose.
Indian cricket officials denied that anything happened, which was the general position taken by everybody concerned, including representatives of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
And, they said, if it did happen, it was a cultural misunderstanding. The local police chief suggested it was a religious thing. Indians do pray animatedly at the cricket but this was a poor excuse on many counts. Officials accused Symonds of lying.
The circus moved to Nagpur for the next match and the same thing happened in a small section of the stands. Symonds didn’t see it, the Australians didn’t complain, but The Australian wrote about it. The denials persisted.
And the denials continued into the cauldron of chaos that is the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai, a place some locals concede is among the more racist on the subcontinent.
** It is here that dark-skinned local cricketers were pilloried as khaliya (darkie) by the fairer-skinned elite.
When Symonds walked out to bat in Mumbai, Getty photographer Hamish Blair lifted his lens to the far stand and the first thing he saw was a group of adults scratching their armpits and hooting like primates.
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Elsewhere in the crowd people chanted “Aussies suck” and “Aussies are arseholes”, which was unpleasant, but no great drama. Others had signs that referred to monkeys, which clearly did overstep the mark.
Blair emailed the image up to the press box and there could be no more denials.
Officials saw the image and people in the crowd were arrested and charged.
What nobody knew at the time was that what was happening in the stands was apparently happening on the field.
According to people close to the team, Harbhajan used the “monkey” term on the field. The matter was dealt with behind closed doors after the match and should have stayed there.
If he has repeated the term, he deserves no sympathy at all. He was given one chance but, when push came to shove, when antagonist and protagonist bickered again on day three, he allegedly went there again.
He could have used all sorts of expletives, he could have even ignored Symonds, but, according to a number of the Australian players, he went to the poison well to dish out the most toxic thing he could think of.
The denials started straight away. Again. Symonds was accused of being the provocateur, but he is not the one who has breached one of the most serious laws of the game.
Others claimed Australians only complain when they are losing.
** Indian commentators disingenuously suggested “monkey” was a normal term of abuse for somebody misbehaving, somehow erasing the whole dismal history of this episode and taking it all back to where we started.
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** Strange that the only person labelled monkey in the Australian team is the only black person.**
During the Indian episode Symonds quietly went about his business. It was a storm he did not enjoy being in the eye of.
“Over the past couple of weeks, I have felt as though I have been put in a situation that is not of my making,” Symonds said.
"Anyone who knows me will understand that being the focus of this particular story is something I’m not comfortable with.
"I never made a complaint at any venue, but I did answer media questions asking whether I had heard the chants aimed at me in Baroda. I said at the time I wasn’t particularly bothered by it as I tried to defuse the original situation by interacting with the crowd.
"I feel that the print and TV media have badly misrepresented my views at times over the past three matches. I understand that racism, in all sports, is a sensitive, serious and a global issue and it is pleasing to see the authorities here in Mumbai tackling the issue following the seventh one-day match.
“I would much prefer the focus be on the cricket and for the cricket to be played in an atmosphere where players and spectators can enjoy a good day out, full of excitement and go home having had a great day of sport.”
Wouldn’t we all.