A letter to Ricky Ponting


Mr Ponting,

You have lost all the respect you gained that you have earned in last few year, you might a fine batsmen but we do not need you in gentlemen’s game. A person, who can bully umpires, who can lie repeatedly in front of millions of fans, who can appealing for a catch which was on ground for more than 2 seconds and can still claim that the game was played in gamesmen sprit does not deserve to play this game again, we do not wish to see you on field again.

You have wrongly accused Harbhajan for racial comments and managed to get him punished by bullying Mark Proctor, Mark Benson and Steve Bucknor and I do not need to say who is on the receiving end of racial abuse. You should be penalized for the abuse.

You have forgotten about the sportsmen ship in the blind race of breaking the record, your media had already talked about street-fighter instincts and still you could not maintain the dignity on final day and worse you took it to a new depth. Even though we have lost this test match but Indians have emerged as heroes by fighting in a test match played against 14 players and technology.

- Cricket fan

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  • indhar

    i totally agree with you
    i am indian supporter living in australia and have nothing against australians, they played well, but their attitude and sportsmanship towards the game was disgusting.
    I beleive Harbajan is innocent and even if he did happen to say the word monkey, then its still no big deal. first of all its not racist at all in any way and second, the Australian are cry babies. If they dont want any sledging then maybe they should stop themselves. someone should teach them to treat others how u would like to be treated.
    Ponting should be sacked and replaced by Gillie.
    Harbajan should not be banned
    bucknor should be shot
    its just bad luck we got a chimpanzee for an umpire