Head and shoulders above: Why Trav is the key to Australia's T20 World Cup success
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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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