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Gautam GAmbhir was today handed a one match suspension over alleged inidence of elbowing of Shane Watson. I have no problems with that but the sad part is Shane Watson was only fined 10% of his match fee. We all saw how Watson flung his elbow out when Gambhir was running past him. When Gambhir retaliated Watson was as surprised as anything. Indians were not supposed to retaliate he always thought.

Sledging and mental disintegration was an Australian thing around a year back. When Australia won the one day championship in India in September 2007, Ricky Ponting said that the attitude of Indian Players will change When they tour Australia in Dec 2007 and then they would find out how tough these Indians really were. They found that out all right. They won the test series 2-1 narrowly (If you count the Sydney test) lost their reputation and the One day series after that.

If any of us watched the IPL matches, Watson always had a word to say to even the lesser batsmen, He would get hit for a four, put in a bouncer next ball and would feel happy about it. But when Gambhir and Laxman were flaying him all over the park he had nothing but his hand to stick out.

ICC is now worried that the game is going too arrogant and they must shell out punishments. Again I agree with it but why the double standards.

Australian bowlers were having verbals with even VVS Laxman, the mildest guy in the Indian team, he had to silence them with his bat remaining unbeaten in both the innings; but Gambhir made a gesture both with his bat and elbow. Next time every bowler would think twice before sticking his hand out to a batsman attempting a run.