When Sunil Gavaskar lost his cool and SLAMMED Ricky Pointing heavily LIVE on air

India got the ‘raw end of umpiring decisions’: Ricky Ponting on 2008 Sydney Test
Anil Kumble, India’s captain on the 2007-08 tour of Australia, had famously said in the post match press conference of the Sydney Test that ”Only one team was playing with the spirit of the game.”

More than twelve years since the infamous Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground, former Australian captain Ricky Ponting has spoken about what transpired between India and Australia during that match. Ponting, who spoke about the ‘Monkeygate’ episode in detail in a podcast on Sky Cricket, accepted that India had been hard done by during the match as some key umpiring decisions went against them.

Anil Kumble, India’s captain on the tour, had famously said in the post match press conference that ”Only one team was playing with the spirit of the game.”On being asked about Kumble’s comment and how he coped with the pressure after the media targetted the Australian team for being ‘arrongant’ after the Sydney Test, Ponting said he was surprised.

India lost the Sydney Test match by 122 runs despite taking a sizeable first innings lead. The Indian team had complained against the umpiring in the match as several key errors were made, which went against the touring Indian side.

Ponting also shared his experience in which he has confessed that the sequence of events which followed was the lowest point of his captaincy stint.

“We all felt let down by the end result (of the Monkeygate controversy). The fact that it got in the way of the way we played our cricket for the next Test match was probably the most disappointing thing,” he said.

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[ved]

DRS is important for this .and that's why we won back to back two series in Australia

[koushikkoujalagi]

Sandpaper was nothing when compared to ponting and Clarke those days. Symonds was Picasso of cheating and made sure they sledge anyone in the team to put mental pressure.

[rahul.r]

This is why kohli was born to give back the Aussies every penny.

[krishnaannapragada]

Sunil Gavaskar was brutal... Absolutely brutal...And rightly so. Even during his playing days, he had guts to standup to what he believed strongly...Deep respect...

[aneeshsharma]

Every Australian is a gentleman once he gets retired....

[sreeyeshs]

Time has changed and now Australians started complaining against Indians for Sledging 😂😂😂😂

[ugrasenpatel]

This is why kohli is good because he always give aussies what they diserve

[surajeetsingh]

Trust me..it's not possible today..for sure..they don't dare to do such things..that's the power of BCCI..👊👊

[suhassachdeva]

These bold words could only be said by Sunil Gavaskar...none other him can be so fearless while putting forward the opinion on such platform....

[wakeuppakistan]

I Remember when i was kid i saw the aussies intentionly mocking asian teams . and i always thought why our players always manage to be polite . then thanks to virat kohli and co they made my dreams come true love from pakistan

[ZOOMED]

I don't know how australian become gentlemen after retirement 😂😂

[pradeepmunuswamy]

Mr. sunil got no chill he was on point but these days commentaries team got no balls to critics like this ...

[AmithV]

Just imagine virat kohli captaining India back then, he would've probably killed the umpire 😂

[rakeysharya]

This is where player like kohli gambhir harbhajan yuvraj was required....

[subhasishsingh]

"only one team played the spirit of the game" iconic lines....🔥🔥🔥

[prabuvastrad]

Gavaskar may give up the commentary,
But he never give up supporting Indian players.👍

[mriganka]

Ricky Ponting had been always a cheater of cricket...

[sumitturambekar]

Thats why after introducing DRS review system, Australia could not win last two series played in Australia. 😂

[adarsh]

That was when India wasn't the superpower in cricket, now I love it when these same players come and lick boots of BCCI and Indian players for Money

[surendargs]

I can only imagine ponting laughing at this if he listen to this. Aussies never feel ashamed of cheating. If Sand paper incident was not caught on camera they would have continued that strategy