The Clock and the Compass!

My new found bunny, Ricky Ponting, has to learn how to think beyond his selfish record and his team's ruthless behaviour. Aussies play hard but fair. This seems to be the standard statement given by everyone from Cricket Australia's CEO to the toilet cleaner at SCG. I dont know if they actually know what they mean here.

In many ways, Ponting has become the man riding the donkey of arrogance, in indian parlance. He used to be regarded as a great captain until this match. Things will never be the same again. This is yet another situation after the Jade Goody-Shilpa Shetty incident, when an Indian has been at the receiving end. We all know what has happened to Jade after that show.

Ponting on the other hand, has a chance to redeem himself - if he resigns very quickly and quietly. He might be a good player, but certainly not a honest one. Cheats can come and go, but players at the international level and that too the captain, claiming a catch when he grounded it, is literally unheard of in the annals of world cricket.

Peter Roebuck has hit the nails on the head of Ponting and his pack of wild dogs. Its even perfect a statement as Peter is Australian as well. BCCI and his muscles have been put to test, yet again. This is one test which the BCCI can never lose as long as you and I follow the game as intenty as we do now. But lets not forget that till this point, no action has been taken by Cricket Australia on any of its players or indeed the arrogant captain.

I suspect it will be a matter of time before CA takes a quick action. Cricket Australia calling the Sydney match 'fantastic' is just PR stuff. BS you can say. If CA sticks to this line, the day is not far off, when Australia would be banned from international cricket for not adhering to international cricket standards of gamemanship. After all, abusing the oppositions' parents or wives is hardly the way to go about playing a game of cricket.

The buck of sledging will finally stop here. Ponting and his team wont be sleeping well. They have been disowned by their own fans. Some thing drastic will happen soon. Some very appreciable change will be put in by CA to rectify this image of the team. Maybe Ponting is counting his last few games as captain. One can never say!!

The honest hearts in CA should awake and once this incident has died down, lay the track for some fresh minds to run the team. Its going to be all about how quickly they react and which direction they are aligning themselves to.

The clock and the compass dont wait for anyone!