Kumble too showed his ire at the spirit shown by the Australian team. “We’d like to play hard on the field and expect that from Australia as well. We had decided before the series that we would be honest. I’ve played my cricket very sincerely and honestly, that’s the approach my team takes, and we expect that from Australia as well.

“I don’t want to say anything more at the moment, we have to wait and see on that. Sometimes it happens that in the heat of the moment you take those chances and then probably don’t say anything on that. It’s a part of the game,” he said.

Ponting himself openly declared on the second day that Rahul Dravid was not out after he admitted to not collecting it cleanly, but changed his stance on the final day when he first claimed a catch off Dhoni that he had clearly grounded, and then declared Sourav Ganguly out when going by Michael Clarke’s word, who had taken the catch off the ground and the batsman and umpire had doubts over it.

Adam Gilchrist too claimed a dubious catch when the ball had clearly brushed Dravid’s pads. Andrew Symonds didn’t show his honesty on the field and failed to walk off after he got an edge off Ishant Sharma and later realised the honesty clause after the close of play.