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Racism charge against Bhajji was dropped by Justice John Hansen he was charged with a Level 2.8 offence - abuse and insult so and was fined 50 per cent of his match fees.

The immediate future of the Indian tour lifted; the Indian team, which had gathered in Adelaide in a show of support instead of proceeding to Melbourne for Friday's Twenty20 match, has now decided to continue with the original arrangements.Back door strategies have worked really well and this helped the issue to calm down and end in the tour to continue further than ending after the fantastic Test match series. Meanwhile BCCI has welcomed the decision and were pleased with the ACB's way of handling the issues.

Fantastic from Indian perspective I mean the way the budda brigade (sachin, Ganguly, Dravid,Lakshman) usually called by many had done wonders and made it quiet a memorable tour for themselves in one way or the other.At the same time the young and inexperienced bowling attack has performed very well and made sure that they backed their batting attack. It is the young batting attack that needs to pick up and show to the world that they were the best.

With the one day series starting and a 20-20 match every one is excited and looking forward for an series which is memorable one....

Sourav Ganguly has said that umpire Benson should have consulted Steve Bucknor in adjudicating on the controversial catch which led to his dismissal in the second innings of the second Test against Australia in Sydney. Ganguly, convinced that the catch hadn't carried, waited at the crease. Benson opted not to consult Bucknor at square leg and instead took Ricky Ponting's word that the catch was legitimate.It was among several decisions that went against India through the Test and played a big part in their defeat.He [Benson] could have done a better job speaking to Steve Bucknor..... I think the umpires should interfere if they feel it's a 50-50.

The umpiring aside, the Test ended in acrimony after offspinner Harbhajan Singh was charged with making an alleged racist remark to Andrew Symonds. Kumble, speaking after the game, said the Australians were guilty of not playing with the right spirit. His feelings were shared by several Australians, including former players who weren't impressed by Ponting's conduct.

Australia retains the Gavaskar/Border Series and with it the record for 16 straight wins in a row, another record in their kitty.Congrats to Australia....but do they deserve the win??? may be if you are an Australian or one of the three umpires(thanks to some wonderful umpiring including the third umpire who couldn't spot a stumping chance when referred to him).

This is the most controversial test match, thanks to the most esteemed umpires that are standing in the middle who needs to check themselves whether they deserve to be in the fit to be at this level, may be ICC can take a look at beauty of decisions by their elite panel, not one..one after other they kept on doing the mistakes. Anyways a team with 13 players(including the umpires) will definetly have the advantage.

Most ridiculous of the decisions that were made to mention a few....

Ponting caught by wicket keeper but wasn't given out, he went on to made 50 odd runs and to add fuel to the fire his testimony was taken into consideration while giving Ganguly out :)
Symonds was out thrice for sure if not fourth time(once leg- before, once caught and once stumped most ridiculous of things is that he was not given out by third umpire this time)
Jaffer poor guy was bowled by Brett Lee of a no-ball
Dravid given out which he has not nicked....
Replay's showed that the leg before decision of Hussey was not given and he went on to make a century...well played buddy
Ganguly given out which clark has clearly grounded the ball..to add to the controversy the stand in umpire took the words of fielders(ponting and clark's who stood their ground when they are clearly out and umpire has no minimum common sense to consult the leg umpire or the third umpire and and gave ganguly out as he got the approval from fifth umpire Mr.Ponting????
Decision on Harbhajan singh's contoversy with Symonds hope he will not be banned from tests or one days by taking the words of players with out proper proofs... hope ICC will not take the decision by considering the words of fellow players and ban bhajji....

All in all a good fight by Indian's and all the best for the rest of the tournament..