Symonds subjected to 'monkey chants'
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Andrew Symonds was apparently the target of racist abuse during the fifth ODI against India in Vadodara on Thursday after being subjected to monkey chants while fielding on the boundary. According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, the incident occurred during the second half of India's innings at the IPCL Sports Complex, but the police and the state cricket administration denied the allegation.
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Harbhajan Singh has been cleared of making racist comments and, as a result, has had his three-match ban rescinded. However, after an appeal at the Federal Court in Adelaide the charge was downgraded to one of using abusive language and Harbhajan has been fined 50 per cent of his match fee as a lesser punishment.
India captain Anil Kumble has insisted for the first time that Harbhajan Singh did not make a racist comment towards Andrew Symonds during the second Test. It later emerged Kumble asked Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting not to report the incident, but he said: "I offered to apologise only to smooth things over.
"I am convinced that a racist remark was neither made nor intended."