As you said, I never intend to beat up all Australians as "evil-bad" etc at the outset. Those days of ill-informed judgements are past.
Your post is completely at odds with the man's words themselves. And again, if you want to draw that bow, then you must concede on the same rationale that Sehwag's comments pre-1st test were saying Australia cheated in Sydney. When that was suggested on these forums, it was quickly dispelled because he didn't use the words "cheat".
Maybe, but I think if people really want to read something as an attack on Tendulkar, they will anyway, unless all he says is "by golly, isn't that Sachin Tendulkar a top guy". Keep in mind that we don't know what he says in the rest of even that paragraph, or the context in the book as a whole. That's why I said earlier that I wouldn't pass judgement on his intent. The fact that it seems to read quite differently to different people should indicate that there's not a lot of clarity in what's quoted.
Quite likely thats what happened. It was what immediately came to my mind but would that be something you would bother about mentioning in your autobiography? I haven't read the book and do not know the context but it is pretty odd on the face of it.
Was merely pointing out the ridiculousness of it all. As Faaip & Burgey said, it seems unless Sachin is being overwhelmed with praise, you can't say a thing about him. I love the bloke, and think he's most certainly a legend, and a true gentleman of the game. But the way people carry on when another player/critic etc. dares utter what could possibly be construed as a negative comment about him, it's really quite pathetic.
Do recall Ponting saying "we were out played" after the last test. But do agree they generally don't take losing well (not that the team has had much experience of that over the last decade).
Haha, nice.
Actually it is pretty damn hard to believe that Tendulkar will lie to defend any kind of abuse let alone a racial abuse and trust me I am not really a fanatic Tendulkar fan.
Until that part your post was superb. What makes you think Tendulkar would lie? And Harby's career was not on the hook as you say. Darren Lehmann was banned for some games for calling Murali some really bad word, yet he continued to play and became a legend in the eyes of Australian supporters. I don't think Tendulkar would have sacrificed his reputation to lie, esp when other evidence like the stump-mic etc were there, and TEndulkar would've no idea what those things recorded, until the testimony.
If we take this excerpt to be an accurate relection of what Gilchrist believes to be true (and nothing in his record suggests that this wouldnt be the case), then the only "cynical" aspect is the timing of the release and the passage chosen for serialisation
Don't buy that nonsense one bit. One of the peeves of the Indian team after that game was the Aussies schoolgirl celebration and not bothering to shake hands with Kumble and Ishant on the field after the last wicket fell.
The point still stands, it wasn't a definitive 'a' as in singular...Gilchrist actually said nothing like any of the headlines. The closest being The Australian headline...which is to be expected really as it is probably the paper with the most integrity.
Quite. That's what I meant by this:
Slap bang in the middle of the rematch series and, obviously, whichever paper serialises it is going to pounce on the bits that can be spun into something juicy. Sells papers &, probably, a few more copies of Gilly's tome.
