By IANS
Melbourne : If Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh has been fined for abuse, why not Andrew Symonds, asks an Australian columnist.
Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt in his blog on the website of the newspaper said that Harbhajan, on the evidence of a formal hearing, has done nothing that Symonds didn’t do first — and worse.
“But such is our boorish love of the oi-oi-oi macho that few Australians want to believe we’re no better than the Indians we’re so keen to condemn. Sure enough, Singh is no angel, and India’s cricket administrators have acted like thugs against the umpires and the game’s administrators,” wrote Bolt.
He added that the 8,000-word judgment of Justice John Hansen, the New Zealand judge who revoked Harbhajan’s three-Test suspension for his alleged racial abuse of Symonds during the second Test, was excellent and gave a clear insight to what happened in Sydney.
“See there how the swaggering aggression and foul language of our team has at last caught up with it, and learn that before Australians lecture Indians on manners, we might go find our own,” said Bolt.