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The Australia v India Test at Sydney in January 2008 was overshadowed by non-cricketing issues: a string of poor umpiring decisions, largely at India's expense; allegations of gamesmanship against Australia and their captain; and a charge of racism against India's Harbhajan Singh. The fallout saw Steve Bucknor, one of the field umpires, being withdrawn from standing in the next Test in the series.
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Oct 25, 2008

'Nowhere did I accuse Sachin of lying'

News: Adam Gilchrist has insisted that he did not accuse Sachin Tendulkar of lying while presenting evidence in the racism hearing after the controversial Sydney Test

Oct 25, 2008

Angry Harbhajan lashes out at Gilchrist

News: Harbhajan Singh has hit back at Adam Gilchrist's comments on Sachin Tendulkar and said that Gilchrist was not respected anyway due to his own on-field behaviour

Oct 24, 2008

Gilchrist's comments were taken out of context - Tendulkar

News: Adam Gilchrist has told Sachin Tendulkar that his comments in the media were taken out of context

Oct 24, 2008

Gilchrist slams Tendulkar in autobiography

News: Memories of the controversial Sydney Test that threatened to derail India's tour of Australia earlier this year have been revived with Adam Gilchrist questioning Sachin Tendulkar's evidence in the Harbhajan Singh racism case in his soon-to-be-published au

Feb 14, 2008

'Cricket should talk'

Interviews: India's captain has always been an old-school player, firm in the belief that actions speak louder than words. How does he deal with a side where, increasingly, the players feel the need to wear their attitude on their sleeves?

Sambit Bal

Jan 31, 2008

ICC accepts blame for 'human and database errors'

News: Malcolm Speed has said that the ICC accepts the blame for the errors which played a part in Harbhajan Singh escaping a more severe penalty

Jan 11, 2008

Benson should have consulted Bucknor - Ganguly

News: Sourav Ganguly feels that the umpires should realise their responsibilities more

Jan 11, 2008

Ponting was not 'willing to listen'

News: Anil Kumble has revealed that Ricky Ponting, the Australian captain, was not willing to "listen" when he offered to diffuse the situation with an apology

Jan 11, 2008

Catching agreement in doubt after Sydney

News: Anil Kumble believes Australia's behaviour will play a big role in the continuation of the catching agreement he had with Ricky Ponting

Jan 11, 2008

Symonds broke 'pact', which led to incident - Chauhan

News: Chetan Chauhan did not reveal the details of the pact, which he said had been made after the one-day series in India

Jan 10, 2008

Madugalle confident of defusing crisis

News: Ranjan Madugalle, the ICC match referee who has been appointed as a mediator to ensure good on-field relations between Australia and India, is confident he will succeed in his brief

Jan 10, 2008

Ponting wants team to be loved

News: "I don't think anyone wants the way Australia plays cricket to change," Ricky Ponting says

Jan 9, 2008

ICC defends Bucknor decision

News: Malcolm Speed, the ICC chief executive, has defended the decision to replace Steve Bucknor with Billy Bowden for the third Test in Perth, saying it was done for the better of the game and not to please India

Jan 9, 2008

New Zealand judge to chair Harbhajan appeal

News: New Zealand judge John Hansen has been appointed as commissioner Harbhajan Singh's appeal

Jan 9, 2008

Cricket Australia chief defends team against critics

News: Cricket Australia (CA) today threw its weight behind Ricky Ponting and his team-mates against accusations of unsporting behaviour and said sparks are bound to fly when the game is Test cricket and not "tiddlywinks"

Jan 9, 2008

Questions from Sydney

Sambit Bal: The SCG saga has thrown up all sorts of thorny questions - to do with the removal of umpires and the way hearings are conducted, among other things - with no easy answers in sight

Sambit Bal

Jan 9, 2008

Sporting greats upset by Australia's behaviour

News: The criticism of Australia's behaviour at the SCG has spread to other sports

Jan 9, 2008

Some balance, please

Guest Column: True, India were sinned against in the Sydney Test, but they're no innocents, and the reaction of the media back home has been consummately over the top

Suresh Menon

Jan 8, 2008

Ponting turned down request - Kumble

News: Anil Kumble has revealed that he had approached Australian captain Ricky Ponting, after the third play's day of the Sydney Test, requesting him to not press the charge of racism against offspinner Harbhajan Singh

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan in Canberra

Jan 8, 2008

'Tour will continue for the present' - BCCI

News: The crisis surrounding the Indian tour of Australia seems to have blown over, if temporarily, with the Indian board, whose top brass met in New Delhi on Tuesday night, saying the tour would continue "for the present"

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