Harbajan Singh innocent - India still thrashed by Australia so who cares?

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - World cricket authorities have caved in to the game's financial superpower, India, and Cricket Australia has incurred the wrath of its own Test players by pressuring them to drop a racial slur charge against Harbhajan Singh.


The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had even chartered a plane to take its players home tomorrow if the Indian player's three-Test suspension - for calling Australia's Andrew Symonds a monkey during the Sydney Test - had not been overturned at yesterday's appeal in the Federal Court in Adelaide.

"What people have to realise is how ludicrous this all is," said a Cricket Australia spokesperson," you've got the black Australia player that hardly anyone realised was black being called a racist term for a black man by an Indian, who, let's face it, is probably blacker than our guy anyway. Surely you can see why that's funny. C'mon, you've gotta' admit it."

A plane is also being kept available for the Indian team if they decide to throw their toys in the air if any of their batsmen are legitimately given out or their bowlers deliver a bowl that does not take a wicket.

"You could say we are taking it a bit too far," said a BCCI spokesperson, "but I feel we have that right. We have more money than any other cricket playing team (which isn't that hard when you look at the competition) and well, if we don't want to play because you won't do what we say, then we won't play. Oh, and how dare that person from Cricket Australia say that Indians are black. Indians are far superior than blacks and we take that as a racist comment."