Monkey menace hits Adelaide

[IndianRenegade]

Monkey menace hits Adelaide Adelaide: The "monkey" has come back to haunt India-Australian cricketing ties yet again. An intruder, an Australian wearing a black monkey mask not only evaded so-called strict security surveillance on the ground but managed to reach the pitch before he was brought down by the security staff. It happened in the post tea session when Andrew Symonds was batting on 30 with Brad Hogg in company. It came at the same time when Australia levelled India’s first innings total. Irfan Pathan was the bowler. When the Indian left-arm seamer was asked about the intrusion, he joked about it saying, "I don’t know whether t was due to a bet or just a joke. It was a bit funny," he said. Indian crowds and Team India, especially Harbhajan Singh, has been pilloried by Australian press and the team over the "monkey" issue. The press had picked on monkey chants when Australia toured India last October for the One-Day series. The matter was turned into an issue by the Australian team with much help from touring reporters from Down Under, saying that it was racist and targetted at Andrew Symonds who is the only player of Afro-Caribbean origin. Indian team manager Chetan Chauhan gave a measured response to the incident saying that, "it seems just as Indians back home treat it like a joke, so do Australians." Channel Nine, the official broadcaster here, did not show images of the intruder. Interestingly, Australian reporters in the post match conference did not raise the issue with Pathan either. Meanwhile, sources in the Indian team management say that they will bring this issue up during Harbhajan Singh’s appeal hearing scheduled for January 29. Judge Paul Hansen of New Zealand has arrived in Adelaide for the appeal hearing. The Australian team had brought up incidents of monkey chants and racist abuse during the last tour when they went to India, especially the incidents during the Baroda and Mumbai One-Dayers.

[aussiefan]

http://www.indiancricketfans.com/showthread.php?t=88492

[IndianRenegade]

sorry for that delay.... but why doesn't the aussie media protest this racial activity? When it is the Indian crowd it is racial, when it is Australian, it is just a prank! LOL

[beetle]

Double standards run deep....

[aussiefan]

no, he is getting maximum fine and banning from ground i understand

[IndianRenegade]

no' date=' he is getting maximum fine and banning from ground i understand[/quote'] Yet, he wasn't termed racist but a prankster. Channel 9 didn't even show it on TV. :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: