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India worst-behaved team: Australian media

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Posted online: Sunday , January 13, 2008 at 1225 hrs IST

Melbourne, January 13:: While Ricky Ponting and his teammates continue to cop criticism for their abrasive demeanour on the field, the indomitable Australian media went on a counter-attack and compiled a rap chart to claim that India is the worst-behaved team under the sun.

The Sunday Telegraph painstakingly collected and collated official ICC data, which shows India having faced more sanctions than any other Test playing nation in the past 10 years.

The daily also took a jibe at former India captain Sourav Ganguly, dubbing him "the game's undisputed problem child, being hauled over the coals by cricket's governing body a record 12 times in his international career."

"Overall, Indian players have been charged for 43 infringements since 1997, for offences including intimidating umpires, abusing rival players, ball tampering, time wasting and widespread dissent," it said.

The report pointed out that of the current touring party, five Indians players -- Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh -- have either been fined or suspended in the past.

"The rap sheet is evidence the Indians are anything but cricketing choirboys as they continue to deny spinner Harbhajan is guilty of racially abusing all-rounder Andrew Symonds," it said.

The newspaper also made an in-depth analysis of the ICC's code of conduct breaches, which shows Pakistan coming close to "India's ill-discipline" with 39 offences, led by former skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq, who has 11 reprimands against his name.

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by satish on 2008-01-15 13:43:23.915405+05:30
It's better for Australia to have a look into their own records they can go to any extent for wining the match as their on field records suggest.
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White man mentality
by Abheet on 2008-01-14 20:30:08.09436+05:30
Of course Indian and Pakistani teams are the worst since they never complained whereas Aussies,British etc always ran like school boys to the umpires. Umpires and the ICC all owned by these white teams punished our teams and that was the colonial way. Even if our tems did nothing wrong, like Hair at Oval, they were still punished. Now the Aussie media can't cope with our boys complaining and still want the white man rule they have come up with this invalid argument. They should understand that only 10 years ago it was still white man rule. So shut up and face the facts that Asian teams have a clout now and the white man has to learn to accept fairness.
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thugs and robbers as referees and umpires
by Indi on 2008-01-14 11:45:40.138111+05:30
When thugs and robbers become match referees and umpires, it is obvious that they will support robbers and thugs ie aussie players and other non asian teams like newzealand, SA, england etc. So these thugs and robbers are targeting gentlemen of cricket that is Indians.
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To Indi
by Peter on 2008-01-14 14:39:18.978263+05:30
The world is laughing at you India.
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Discrimination against Asian Teams
by Ajay on 2008-01-14 11:40:31.034727+05:30
Asian teams at the top of list, clearly shows the discrimination against Asian teams by umpires and refrees
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India worst-behaved team: Australian media
by Kaukab Nadeem on 2008-01-14 11:13:50.633793+05:30
This may be true statistically but when you analyze intense issues[under arm bowl,pushing a highest member of a board for photographs,
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