Sachin Tendulkar and Adam Gilchrist..

‘Sorry mate, you are still better than me’.

I made the comment that Sachin and Harbhajan were sometimes not around to shake hands. Whether that is right or wrong is not my point. It was more the cultural differences I was trying to highlight.

Retired Australian vice captain Adam Gilchrist has questioned India’s sportsmanship and has singled out their greatest player Sachin Tendulkar for special criticism.

The match-winning wicketkeeper-batsman, who retired from the game earlier this year, claims in a new book that the biggest difference between Australia and India is that his former teammates left hostilities on the field while many of their antagonists often snubbed their opponents.
Its strange that Gilchrist called Sachin a sore loser, especially since he headed the Deccan Chargers that stood last in the IPL. But that’s just a random thought.

Gilchrist said that he had written four pages on the incident in the book but media chose to quote just two sentences, blowing the issue out of proportion. What do you think, the Media is to blame. or Gilly alone?

Adam Gilchrist, who created a huge controversy questioning Sachin Tendulkar’s deposition backing Harbhajan Singh in the ‘Monkeygate” scandal, on Friday spoke to the batting great and clarified his remarks in his forthcoming book.Though Sachin Tendulkar himself refused to comment on the issue at a function in Pune, television channels reported that Gilchrist called him to say that the media had misquoted him.
Gilchrist’s remarks prompted angry reactions from the cricket establishement in India with former players and administrators who described the remarks as “unfortunate and uncalled for” and said it was  only a publicity .

Gilchrist’s comments in the book, which is set to be released next week, sparked angry reaction from Indian cricket officials earlier Friday.Sachin Tendulkar says he was surprised by Adam Gilchrist’s “loose statements” in his forthcoming book, and found it puzzling that a man who did not know him well had made personal judgements.”I was surprised. I didn’t know how to react,” Tendulkar told NDTV.

You get a lot of money to write a book in Australia and England. But you have to write something sensational to sell your book. It is a marketing strategy to sell his book, said the former Test batsman. Gilchrist should have thought twice before making such comments about Tendulkar, who is a great batsman and widely respected all over the cricketing world,the board’s media committee chairman Rajiv Shukla said.

“If there is any person who will lose respect after this incident it is Gilchrist himself.” Gilchrist said he had always loved India and that his book was honest and hoped it was balanced. I think the latest correspondence from India was that sighted recently in the last day or two, there is a donkey roaming the streets of Mumbai with my name indelibly written on the side of it,Gilchrist joked.