Down and Under!

The controversies simply never fail to raise our eyebrows when it comes to a cricket series played Down Under! The series between India and Australia has just begun and once again,they are the controversies that are filling up the Sports pages[Front pages,in India’s case!] of newspapers!
It was only the second test match and the Indian team recovered remarkably from that horrific first test to perform,if not better,then atleast at par with the Aussies.But then,you can never trust the Aussies to play fair.Since they had realized that they had no chance of winning by playing fair,they did all that was in their might.From blaming Harbhajan for making racial comments to Ponting playing the umpire on the field by ruling Ganguly out,they did almost everything.
What I fail to understand is that is a nation so obsessed with winning that it has lost its sense of right and wrong? Was making a world record of 16 successive victories in test cricket so important that players forgot the rules as well as the code of conduct?
They say,Bhajji made a racial slur at Symonds by calling him a “big monkey”.I say,what did a certain Aussie umpire do when he referred to the entire Indian team as “you Blacks” and later on clarified that he had said “you blokes”?!And even now,when Hogg has referred to Kumble and Dhoni as "bastards".I suppose,"bastard" is much more offensive than "monkey"?!
12 wrong decisions against a single team in a single test match is not a joke.And still it's not for the first time.I don’t think any cricket fan will ever forget the infamous “shoulder before wicket” decision against Sachin.Well,that decision had also come Australia!
I feel it's about time we refused to let people to take us for granted.And,for the richest Cricket board,it,certainly is not difficult.I do not say that the team should refuse to play the rest of the series.But then,let the team register its protest.Let the team play the series under protest.