Sorry bring this thread again but...

here is one interesting paragraph written by Mukul Kesavan, sport journalist

"Indians don't think much of Ponting for several reasons. His first tour was dogged
by rumours of bad behaviour, his second tour was an embarrassment (he scored less
than a dozen runs in three Test matches), his onfield aggression struck Indians as


offensive, his unlovely habit of spitting into his palms and rubbing them together
left desis wondering how he got people to shake hands with him and not only did he
look remarkably like George Bush, he behaved like him too.

 

Bush invaded Iraq and then managed to get the invasion ratified by the United Nations
after the fact. Anglo-American rhetoric about the legitimacy of pre-emptive war is
similar to Australian cricket's argument that bullying (so long as it wins matches)
can be justified as robustness. 'Hard and Fair' in the world defined by Bush, begins
to read like 'Shock and Awe'. "