If this is a crisis for Indian cricket, so it is for the Australians. They play hard, they talk rude, they fight for every run, every wicket — and we admired them for it. The Sydney Test was especially electrified by their determination to equal their own record of 16 consecutive Test wins. On the days after that achievement they are visibly constrained to be defensive about the way they won. Ricky Ponting and his men must wonder, did they pull out one stop too many? For a team known for unabashed rudeness, to hope to explain every appeal and protestation on the field as being born of integrity and politeness is, frankly, very rich.
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