Baji, meaning Harbajan Singh the Indian cricketer, has a habit of creating news it appears! The poor Aussie team views him as a real trouble maker nowadays. Isn’t this surprising, coming from, you know whom!
A few years back some teams could get away with whatever they did on the field. Sledging was the pet name used to describe this sort of impeccable behavior. Most of the Asian teams, supposedly containing gentleman players, had to bear the brunt of this ‘orderly’ conduct. Now that the others are retaliating in the same manner, these teams are seeing red allover.
The present Aussie team has one non Caucasian player, and he is being used to get back at other teams, stating that the opposing teams are making snide racial remarks against this six foot three inch giant. What a turn about! The matters have come to such a pass that another mammoth Aussie, Mathew Hayden a great friend of Symonds, again the insulted player in another such incident has openly challenged Ishant Sharma the Indian pacer for a “bout” in the boxing ring. The pacifistic Indians have really come a long way I must say to have irked the sedate Aussie into proposing mortal combat!
Mr. Hayden is said to have described Baji as a weed of some sort. The ICC, true to form, mildly reprimanded him for using such endearing terms in public. The Cricket Australia was better. They soundly admonished him to keep his thoughts to himself in future. The culprit looked distraught too, with stubble of two days on his very sensitive face!
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