Sunny Boy Vs. Monkey Boy

Matthew Hayden's pain medication is keeping him sane so Icky Ponting is taking up the slack. As most of you know by now, Sunny has spoken out against the tyranny of the Aussies calling for a massive uprising all around the world to put an end to their oppressive and cruel ways (sorry, we got a little carried away). Let's try this again: Sunil Gavaskar recently said that though Australia is a great team, they are not liked nor loved because they are such boors. He contrasted them with the Windies of the 70's and the 80's who, he said, were very well liked even as they were kicking everyone's arse.

Well, monkey boy got all hot and bothered about it. He said: "you suck"; "we good"; "we not perfect"; "you not perfect"; "me hungry"; "Australian for beer"; "need bananas, now!".

He also said: "We all know the way he (Gavaskar) played his cricket, don't we?" That's interesting because we actually do know how Sunny played his cricket: With a very straight bat and a lot of class.

Another thing that struck us was his comment about how badly India was doing in recent times. To beat you on the head with a very obvious observation: India doing badly and the Australian cricket team being boors has nothing to do with each other. So, where did that come from?

Sunny, right or wrong, has always been very consistent about his views on sledging. He is on record saying that : "Banter is alright, it makes the game interesting and fun but abuse is not". Not many people know this but we will let you in on a secret: banter is not Ponting's strong suit. He is not smart enough to banter.

We could dissect each of Icky's statements but will instead offer up the floor to others. Since Sanjay felt strongly enough to leave us a comment on an completely unrelated post about this issue, we will let him be the contributing editor of this post:

(ed. talking about Gavaskar's attempted walk-off incident at the MCG in 1980-81) Perhaps Monkey Boy is not, but I am old enough to remember that series. In those days of "not-impartial" umpiring, Australia played with 13 people on the field, including the umpires of course. Sunny Gavaskar got bum decisions practically every other match by an umpire called Whitehead. In the first match, both innings he was given out caught behind twice controversially. Monkey boy is not old enough to remember that Gavaskar was a guy who throughout his career walked when he was out. It was a rare occasion when he awaited an umpire's decision (for LBW typically). That series was also terrible for sledging.
Oh...and by the way, we kicked Oz's ass at MCG in 1980-81. Got them out under 90 runs, if I correctly recall.
Monkey boy should leave the likes of Gavaskar alone. They were people with class. He isn't.

We await with bated breath for the next Ponting's press conference.