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Aussies formally
apologise to Sharad Pawar |
November 10, 2006
 Ricky
Ponting has finally apologized to the BCCI
President Sharad Pawar for his actions during
the Prize Distribution Ceremony of the ICC
Champions Trophy. Cricket Australia has also
apologized on behalf of its team through a
formal letter to Mr.Pawar.
Mr.Pawar who initially downplayed the incidents
had later called the actions of Ponting and
Martyn as ‘uncivilized’. Captured live by
television cameras, Ricky Ponting was seen
gesturing to Mr.Pawar to hand away the Trophy
and later as the Aussies got together to lay
their hands on the trophy for the photographs,
Damien Martyn had rudely pushed aside Mr.Pawar
forcing him to clear off from the picture. The
Indian media had taken a serious note of this
and had accused the Aussies of being the worst
behaving Champs. Protests were taken out by
Mr.Pawar’s followers who even went to the extent
of painting Damien Martyn’s name on a donkey!
Sharad Pawar is not just the BCCI President but
also the Union Agricultural Minister and the
President of the Nationalist Congress Party.
The Australians have said that they didn’t mean
any offence to the BCCI President and it was
just in their excitement of having won the
Champions Trophy for the first time that such
things might have happened. According to the CEO
of Cricket Australia, James Sutherland "there
are things that happen in cricket from time to
time that you don’t necessarily agree with or
aren’t absolutely comfortable with. Life goes
on. It’s unfortunate that there has been an
interpretation of disrespect from that.”
According to the BCCI, the matter is now closed
forever.
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