I suppose it worked for them once. In Australia when the India Cricket Board (BCCI) threatened to take their bat and ball and go home over the Harbharjan affair, the Aussies and the ICC were made to look ridiculous or worse - Andrew Symonds was completely undermined. So that the ICC held it's ground against the BCCI is a credit to them. Anything less would've rendered the process useless for future incidents.
Indian fans will cry foul, and come up with all these reasons why Gambhir should play, and that they're victimised yet again. The truth is, for all the Aussies bad behaviour, if you insist on calling it that, they have not crossed the line that Gambhir crossed.
He's out, the Indians are not happy, and a Test Match that could decide the fate of the Border-Gavaskar trophy starts today. What more could you want?
Sunil Gavaskar has been commentating on the coverage we get here, and has been very critical of the Aussies behaviour when taking wickets. Now I respect the man as a batsman, but he seriously needs to take a quick peek in his own backyard. India players have carried on far worse in this area on this tour, than any Aussie, and let's not bring his on field tantrums into this right now! Seriously there is a lot of hypocrisy going on at the moment. That's why I reckon, both sides should stop searching for some moral high ground, and just get out there and give it to one another. Like always, to the winner go the spoils (and bragging rites) and to the loser, well, there's always next time. If we laughed about some of this stuff a bit more, instead of getting so upset about it all, maybe it wouldn't be such a big deal.
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