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Kannan Venugopal in yesterday’s Australian –

RICKY Ponting could have resolved the issue in a much more amicable way. than by going to the umpires. Can we get on with the cricket, please?

My sentiments exactly. I played cricket as a kid, and coached as a young teacher, and if any of the kids in my team had behaved the way our Australian players have in the last test in Sydney, they would have been booted out. This behaviour, of course, is not confined to our national team, but they have made it an art form.

The term that would have been used back then was ‘Mug Lairs”.