What you won’t hear from Ponting
Roar Rookie By Daryl, 23 Oct 2008 Daryl is a Roar Rookie
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You won’t hear Ricky Ponting talk about Rudi Koertzen failing to call for the third umpire when Brad Haddin stumped Sourav Ganguly well prior to him scoring a century. Nor will you hear him talk about M.S. Dhoni appealing for a catch that had clearly bounced when trying to bowl Australia out on the last day.
You won’t hear him complain about Zaheer Kahn’s ridiculous send-off of Matthew Hayden.
And you definitely won’t hear him talk about Virender Sehwag standing his ground in both innings when he had smashed the cover off the ball and been caught.
Unlike India after the 2008 Sydney Test Match, Ponting has been humble and taken this defeat on the chin. He knows that India were the better team over the five days and completely outplayed Australia.
After the Sydney Test match India were bad losers, they complained, and complained and complained when subjected to similar events to what we have seen this week.
Unlike Australia, they were not good losers.
I’m not familiar with the culture of sportsmanship in India, but in Australia “winners are grinners” and to be a bad loser is an embarrassment that you may never live down.
That is why you won’t hear complaints about the umpires or India’s behaviour from Ricky Ponting.
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October 25th 2008 @ 3:06pm
damos_x said | October 25th 2008 @ 3:06pm | Report comment
the Indians whinged like babies when they were here & acted improperly given the ‘spirit’ that is inherent in cricket. the Australians were trashed in the name of political correctness. my impression at the time was one of a team ( the Indians) which appeared to be very full of themselves when on top but lacked the character to stick together when the chips are down. they may well prove me wrong but the first Test was an escape for the home team, & the drubbing is now in the past & i don’t believe we will see a repeat. India have such an excellent team that it is hard not to like them, & hopefully the ‘spirit’ of cricket will triumph but if the weather turns nasty i wouldn’t think for one second that the Australians would react in the manner that the tourists did last year.
October 31st 2008 @ 10:58pm
david said | October 31st 2008 @ 10:58pm | Report comment
There is no concept of sportsmanship india – as we know it. I live in Bangalore and went to the test match here and have watched most of the games.
Indians never applaud when an Australian scores a run, 50 or a century. There is dead silence in the stadium.
In contrast, the mildest good play by an Indian will receive the most rapturous ovation you will ever see.
I might add that the media are incredibly biased and insular. Most Indians receive a constant stream of nonsense from their media that would make any credible journalist blush.
For instance, they ran a ‘spirit of the game’ contest where you had to choose between Tendulkar and Ponting in the second test. Tendulkar won (what a joke – he is the sorest loser of all time!) because he ‘went down the pitch to congratulate his teammate on scoring runs’.
Truly – it is second nature in this country to cheat and lie to get anything done. Cricket is no exception and when you point out obvious examples of cheating to Indians they just get this little smirk on their face. They know they cheat and lie, what they cant understand is why we dont!