Ponting-The Nelson Mandela of Cricket

Ricky Ponting, the champion of racism.

"Cricket columnist Malcolm Conn, of The
Australian newspaper, said Ponting should be championed as a national hero for
exposing racism in cricket.
“Ponting deserves to be feted, not condemned,”
Conn wrote."

Seriously, I have no quarrels with Conn's opinion.

However, I doubt whether Ponting did it for altruistic reasons. The act was intended to put pressure on the Indians and maybe get the racism bogey (Lehmann) off their (Australia's) back.

Fete him for exposing 'racism' but condemn him for changing a team which prided itself 'for playing hard but playing fair' into to a pack of yapping dogs.