
There is something about Sreesanth that always seems to get onto Aussie nerves, never mind if he isn’t even among the eleven on the ground that day. He wasn’t playing in the fourth one-dayer here, but managed to get the attention from the sidelines.
Probably keeping in line with the latest Team India policy of meeting fire with fire, verbal mumblings with theatrics, Sreesanth ‘got the better of’ old rival Andrew Symonds.
Symonds, bowled by RP Singh, was returning to the dressing room as the local crowd cheered the Indian bowler. Sreesanth had come into the field with drinks and, while returning, went up and clapped animatedly into Symonds’ face. An agitated Symonds waved his bat at the Indian pacer, attempting to shoo him away. Mitchell Johnson intervened and settled matters. Michael Clarke, sitting in the vicinity, nodded his head disapprovingly. “This is not fair,” he said.
Earlier Symonds had got into a verbal altercation with Sachin Tendulkar during India’s innings that forced Tendulkar to lose his cool and reply back briefly, quite unusual for him.


