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Peter Roebuck was right on target when he accused Ponting of "turning a group of professional cricketers into a pack of wild dogs".
It seemed as if everybody was against Team India, including the match referee Mike Procter, who severely punished Harbhajan by banning him from as many as three Tests.
Coming as he does from South Africa, and having played in an era when apartheid was at its worst in the land of rand, he should know what racism is all about. Someone should have told Procter that India is more concerned about racism because of its ancient, disgusting casteism.
India may have achieved a moral victory when the ICC decided, after a lot of hullabaloo from the BCCI and the Indian media, to appoint a new pair of umpires for the next two Tests. The ICC may have come down from its high horse after the BCCI challenged the verdict against Harbhajan and allowed him to play till the hearing. But a lot of damage had been to done to cricket and its fair name by then.
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