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Awful Aussies
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 These Aussie cricketers really get my goat. Not only are they too bloody good for the rest of the world, they are also a bunch of hypocrites.World records galore and double standards galore - that's what they specialise in. Here are just three examples. Listing the whole lot would fill up a book! Ever since the days of Ian Chappell's captaincy in the 70s, the team has earned the tag of 'Ugly Australians'. Sure, it's true other cricket playing nations are certainly not angels, but what is gets my goat is the way the Aussies seek to justify their appalling behavior and point fingers at others in order to deflect the attention from their own offensiveness. One of the worst culprits over the last 10 years has been pace bowler Glenn McGrath who brought the game down to a new low with his ugly spat in the West Indies last year. The language and tone he used against batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan was something no international sportsperson would tolerate and when Sarwan gave as good as he got, McGrath had the gall to take offence. To quote the exact exchange of 'pleasantries': McGrath to Sarwan: "How does your captain's [Lara] ..taste? Sarwan: "I don't know. Why don't you ask your wife?" McGrath: [hurt tone]" Don't' bring my wife into it."  And what about McGrath's expressions of shock at Harbhajan Singh's behaviour in the recently concluded series? As an Australian cricket magazine itself aptly put it, the three best words to describe his put-on act are "pot, kettle and black". There is also the matter of pitches and Cricket Australia's threat to take their complaint about the Mumbai wicket on which they could not even reach three figures in their second innings, to the International Cricket Council. This is nothing short of squealing. Visiting teams always has a tough time when they play on the Perth wicket, the fastest in the world. And recently New Zealand were skittled out for 76 at Brisbane, another fiery track. Yet, you do not find sides complaining about the way these wickets play into the hands of the fast bowlers. Former Australian captain Bobby Simpson recently asked a pertinent question in his column-why is it perfectly acceptable to have green-tops in England [and New Zealand] which assist medium pacers from day one but not turning tracks that help the spinners? The same goes for hard, bouncy tracks in Australia, South Africa and the West Indies that are a fast bowler's dream and a batsman's nightmare. After all, spinners too are an integral part of cricket. Why should wickets prepared to suit them be condemned as unsporting and sub-standard? Finally, this whole business of one man's sanctimoniousness over the issue of 'walking' is threatening to get out of hand. Adam Gilchrist should come to his senses and realize that while the world admires a man of principle, it abhors someone who sits on his moral high horse and preaches to others-especially when his own teammates would only walk if their car ran out of petrol in the middle of the road or if they were heading to the nearest bar for a cold beer. And how come this same Gilchrist appeals when he is not certain a batsman has actually nicked the ball? Remember, the saying about people in glass houses?
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