A battle is heating up between Gavaskar and Ponting in regards to on field behaviour of the Australian's in particular Ponting as Captain.

So is this war of words a way for India to distract the Australian captain - if it is they are playing with fire, they only need to see what happened to England in the 2007 Ashes tournament when they started having a go at Ponting for losing the 2005 Ashes.

I find it quite sad that Gavaskar has defended his actions of trying to take India off the field after being given out LBW, by trying to blame the action on Australian abusive behavouir - rather than him being upset about being given out LBW.

Ponting is a "Hot Head" and has admitted on every occassion that he has over re-acted to the situation, I don't like him as a captain but at least he has the menatl strength to admit to his faults and take resonability for his actions.