After more than four year of the infamous monkeygate controversy involving Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh and Australian Andrew Symonds at Sydney in 2008, here is an audio record of the spat that took place.
The Sydney test match of January 2008 remains one of the most infamous and controversial Test matches in teh history of cricket for more than one reason.
Apart from some horrendous umpiring by Steve Bucknor and Mark Benson, that promted many critics to say that Australia is playing with 13 players in the field.
Aussies ungentlemanly spirit of not walking off after nicking the ball and appealing for a wicket when there was no edge prompted the then Indian skipper Anil Kumble to make the famous comment, "Only one team played in the spirit of the game"
The monkeygate controversy took a wild angle in the test that made the fans in India demanding the cricket team to boycott the test and come back.
The wild celebration by the Australian team after winning the match proved to be the final nail in the coffin for the cricket lovers who followed the game with its spiri.t
The Sydney test match of January 2008 remains one of the most infamous and controversial Test matches in teh history of cricket for more than one reason.
Apart from some horrendous umpiring by Steve Bucknor and Mark Benson, that promted many critics to say that Australia is playing with 13 players in the field.
Aussies ungentlemanly spirit of not walking off after nicking the ball and appealing for a wicket when there was no edge prompted the then Indian skipper Anil Kumble to make the famous comment, "Only one team played in the spirit of the game"
The monkeygate controversy took a wild angle in the test that made the fans in India demanding the cricket team to boycott the test and come back.
The wild celebration by the Australian team after winning the match proved to be the final nail in the coffin for the cricket lovers who followed the game with its spiri.t
