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Andrew Symonds on monkey-gate

By Will 2 years ago, mid-November Add your comment below

Hello. Sorry for lack of posts. More important things called.

Compared to their last series, India and Australia’s current tussle has been seriously dull. I suppose I should publicly welcome that fact, but the cynic in me loves nothing more than a furore. Happily, or something, Andrew Symonds has retraced the steps which led Harbhajan Singh to call him a monkey. Here it is from Cricinfo:

“One of our off-field team couldn’t hide his disbelief at this…The frustration levels in the camp were rising and I was conscious of contributing to the pressure on the team. It was another turbulent match. I was out for a first-ball duck. I trudged off, getting darker at the world by the second as monkey chants boomed out around Wankhede Stadium. Finally in the rooms, I said to myself: ‘Well, what the f— happened there?’ I wasn’t referring to the dismissal, more to the events that had led up to the game. It had become impossible to escape and I only hoped things might start to improve.”

Symonds said things just got worse in the Indian innings. “Harbhajan and I locked horns briefly in the 35th over and that’s when he chucked the ‘monkey’ word at me. I didn’t have to be Einstein to work out what he was referring to. The word got around the team, but I had decided I really didn’t want to go any further with it. Frankly, I was sick of it and just wanted it all to go away.

“India won the game, and afterwards the team had a brief discussion about whether a formal charge should be laid against Harbhajan. But I was keen to try to deal with it there and then and went along to their dressing-room and asked to speak with Harbhajan. I basically told him: ‘Look, the name-calling is fine with me, it doesn’t particularly worry me what you call me, but you know what is going to happen. One thing will lead to another and you blokes will end up going to an umpire and it will get out of hand’. I said that the word he used was offensive and hurtful and he apologised and said it wouldn’t happen again.

“We shook hands and I said: ‘That’s the end of it’. As it turned out, Harbhajan would later deny this conversation took place, but my recollection is about as clear as I can be on the event.”

The quotations come from Symonds’ latest autobiography, Roy on the Rise, which is seemingly available from no good newsagents or booksellers. Or Amazon.

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3 Responses to “Andrew Symonds on monkey-gate”

  • Vir wrote:
    November 14th, 2008 at 7.21 am

    Just what you can expect from the little cry baby Aussies. They do everything apart from playing in the right spirit and when India thrashes them, they go running to their ICC mommies who frankly nobody gives a damn about (they’re quite a joke).

    And when they can’t make good money in cricket, they try writing biographies filled with crap so they can make a few sales. Laughable. Symonds, what are you writing about? Play a few games, and establish some credibility before doing so, you wanker.

  • mike duberry wrote:
    November 24th, 2008 at 11.21 pm

    Andrew Symonds! Why is he such hot snot? It must be the PC brigade got him a place. Yes, he looks cool, not a bad player…. but bad, bad attitude and a cricketer unfit to be on the world stage due to self-obsession and zero discipline.

  • Harbhajan Singh wrote:
    February 10th, 2010 at 11.32 am

    YEAH!!! Bhajji was expelled from ICC for abusing the andrew symbols.But it might have happened due to some frustrations or aggression.Bhajji be careful to control your emotion as u have to stand to be a terrific performer,probably that u are.

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