Sunday, January 06, 2008

Another Naughty Sikh



India is playing Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground:

"India spinner Harbhajan Singh faces being banned for the remainder of the Test series against Australia after being reported for racially abusing Andrew Symonds at the SCG.

In a sensational development that has completely overshadowed a brilliant century from Sachin Tendulkar on the third day of the second Test in Sydney, Harbhajan allegedly revived the terrible crowd abuse Symonds suffered during the recent one-day tour of India.

During the tour Symonds, the only black player in the Australia side, was abused with monkey chants.

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Nobody will say what the wicked words were but the Indian denies that it was racist. India is scoring well (a cricket match can last several days) and the Indian media think this accusation is just sour grapes on the part of the Australians.

Sikhs are a proud people with a distinguished warrior tradition and Harbhajan does often make disdainful remarks about the Australian cricketers generally -- but insulting whites is OK, of course.

Update:

Harbhajan is alleged to have called the black a "monkey". But the black guy abused him first.