So India beat Australia at Perth and stopped them attaining a record seventeenth win. Naturally the players were overjoyed as no one has beaten the Aussies at home for a long time. The commentators were fulsome in their praise and Gavaskar was generous enough to say that this was the best win in forty years thus discounting the victories India achieved when he was playing. This was indeed a great victory after the disastrous Sidney test and the controversy that followed. This win does not end the supremacy of the Australians in cricket and one expects that they will try whatever to win the next one at Adelaide. That the Aussies are a great side is not in doubt. Even after the retirement of great players such as Glen McGrath and Shane Warne they have pulverised all opposition. Unfortunately their way of winning makes everyone feel that they are unworthy winners. Refusing to walk when the umpire has mistakenly given a batsman not out may seem like cheating but the umpire is there to do a job and the it is not the duty of the batsman to correct the umpire. Also the opposite team can adopt the same attitude and in time the mistakes will probably even out. Abusing batsmen to spoil their concentration is pure cheating. It is like tripping a batsman and then running him out. The allegation of racial abuse against Harbhajan was also a tactic to upset the Indian team. How is 'monkey' a racial abuse? It is much better than calling someone a ****ing bastard thus abusing their innocent parents. Just because Symonds says it is racial abuse does not make it so unless Symonds actually thinks he and his people have simian characteristics. Harbhajan says that he actually said 'teri ma ki' which, in fact, is much worse abuse but not to Australians. I suppose being a bastard is alright with them.