Excess of passion, lack of moderation, absence of balance--cricket in Australia, over the last two months, has been marred by too many causes that really should notaffect the game.
And on a thriller of a Tuesday evening, cricket became almost incidental--despite the fact that it was the best game of the CB Series, ensuring a famous trophy for the young Indians.
For a game India and Australia wanted to win desperately, curiously, it became more about personalities. Harbhajan Singh, in the eye of a storm, mainly raised by the local media,had been demonised into a hate figure--the crowds, even the aged and the infirm, tiny tots andgreybeards, seemed to take a perverse pleasure in spitting invective at him.