Ishant fined 15% of match fee for indecent behaviour

Ishant and Symonds - A needless altercation!
India
February 25, 2008 2:15am CST
...And the Indian team management has requested the match-referee to speak to the Australian team and ask them to cut down on their provoking behaviour. Now is this not childish? Common India grow up and behave like adults! I saw the whole Symonds-Ishant incident on TV and there was nothing that suggested Symonds had provoked Ishant into a verbal volley. It is time the Indian players start behaving in a more matured fashion.
2 responses
@amitavroy (4819)
• India
25 Feb 08
I guess you were another Australian supporter or maybe you are blind because what we saw on television clearly showed that it was the monkey who started all the childish act. When we were kids we used to do such things after we got out when we used to play cricket but we don't repeat these things at this stage because we consider us have grown up. But the monkey I guess still thinks that he is playing with his friends in his backyard. He was the first person to start the indecent behaviour and we Indians believe in one thing we give you a treatment what you deserve. If you behave properly with us that his humanlike behaviour then we will behave with you like humans. But if you bring monkey than we won't change to a monkey definitely but we will give them the behaviour which it deserves to stop we will give them a banana to each show him some sympathy because we are animal lovers.
@hunar11 (14)
• India
25 Feb 08
I agree with you on the point of our players behaving on the field but the issue is not just ending there ....on a simmilar incident which took place between harbajan singh nd symonds where symonds had provoked bajji ..he wasnt penalised whereas here ishant was ...its the consistency in decision making of match refree s in decision making ..where it has always been found in the past that asian players have always been treated more severly then ohter nation players do you think this is fair....but i still agree with you on the point that we should maintain our class by behaving on the field and not reacting and giving examples on the field .