The ongoing one-day cricket series between India and Australia is showing all signs of getting very interesting in coming days - not entirely for cricketing reasons. There has been lot of ‘friendly talk’ between players from both sides and it’s beginning to get ridiculous.

Symonds started it all with his stupid comments about how Indians celebrated their Twenty20 success. Others soon joined the party - Hayden, Harbhajan, Sreesanth. Australians have always made such grand talk part of their strategy, and often followed it up with matching on-field performance. That is the problem with Indian team. They have only learned to match their opponents in talking trash, but they aren’t always consistent in how they play the game. They blow hot one day, and cold the following.

I hate the way Australians start this trash-talking in the first place, and then paint it as if they are the only angels in the garden. And they still get away with it because of their cricketing genius. If not for that, they would just be a bunch of bad losers!