Monkey Business

Let me just categorically state that it was wrong for Harbajhan Singh to call Andrew Symonds a monkey.  No, not because this could be construed as racist but because Andrew Symonds is not a monkey, everyone knows that Andrew Symonds is in fact the Nik Nak man.

 And after all the furore down under and some horrific umpiring India have achieved what they did in 2001 and beat the Aussies when they were on 16 consecutive Test wins, this time it was in Australia’s own back yard, which for every other Test playing nation tired of Australian dominance is a sweet result.  Australia would have set a new record for consecutive Test wins had they won in Perth.  The fact that it was their own record they were trying to beat and that the nearest challenger is the Windies on 11 back in the early eighties speaks volumes about the gap between the nations in the last 2 decades of Test cricket.  But we wont worry about that now, and just enjoy the Aussie press slaughtering their own team for a while.  With one Test to go, India can level the series and wont that make me giggle in my corn flakes. 

Speaking of monumental wins (tongue inserted fimly in cheek), did you see the evergreen Polly rescue the woeful Proteas in the 2nd 20/20 match against the Windies last night? Good old Polly, we gonna miss him.   If Boucher continues to wicket keep like he did last night there might be another South African middle order stalwart following Polly to the ICL.