Two wrongs have never made a right and never will. The aftermath of the Sydney Test has shown a few things which puts a lot in perspective. And it certainly is not a pretty picture.

I would put the sum total of what has happened in the last week in the following analogy. Take a primary school where the school bully beats up other kids for their lunch money. One day he beats up a kid who happens to be the child of the biggest benefactor of the school.

The benefactor is outraged and threatens to stop donating. The head teacher goes into a panic, the bully is made to apologise to the benefactor's son and is to be severely punished. The benefactor is a little calmer. But is the schoolyard any safer? Absolutely not. No prizes for guessing who the bully, the school and the benefactor represent.

'If the BCCI had asked to suspend Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden, Andrew Symonds and Adam Gilchrist for the remainder of the series, that would have happened too'

I can imagine a conference call made after the Sydney Test debacle. Sharad Pawar the head honcho of BCCI, the head of ACP and the ICC were on the other two ends of the conference call. I can imagine Pawar expressing his dissatisfaction with way this has been handled. “We are going to fire Steve Bucknor and we are going to let Harbhajan Singh play, pending appeal, and then you at the ICC will dismiss the appeal.

"Then I need some Australian to skewer as well. Who is the player also bad-mouthing. Brad Hogg is it? Yes? Then charge him with the same thing. Tell him not to contest it, will you? You guys need to know who pays your bills.”

This is an imaginary conversation. But I bet if the BCCI had asked to suspend Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden, Andrew Symonds and Adam Gilchrist for the remainder of the series, you had better believe that would have happened too.