If by media you mean Gilchrist's autobiography then you may be correct. A cheap marketing gimmick timed to perfection right in the middle of the next series, maybe but it might well affect sales in the subcontinent, if they were ever bothered by that. Maybe thats good, in recent times we've seen almost everyone remotely connected with a national team stoop to such tactics to get more publicity for their books, so its about time the general public responded by saying if you sell trash there will be few buyers. I'm not going to bring up monkeygate again, but as honest as Gilchrist appears to the general public he's admitted that nobody who played the game is a saint, so I'm not buying his version as gospel truth. It was a lot more than one person casually slipping a racial slur. (only if that did occur, of course :) )

Nice one dude.. I lost all the respect I had for Gilchrist and his sportsmanship ..

Whether what Gilchrist says is true or not is not my concern, however I'd like to argue how the Indians so proudly claimed they are not racist. For Harbhajan to slap Sreesanth in front of a packed stadium during and IPL game, says a lot about his character (or lack of). That display of unsportsmanship and disrespect towards a fellow countryman openly declares that the man has no respect for anyone else. He could have easily called Symonds a monkey and could have denied it with the same ease. Why should one believe him? actions speak louder than words. And then for BCCI to jump in and use the tour itself as hostage, the board and some Indian players convincingly prove; character is innate, Sachin has it, most of the rest do not. Harbhajan can say whatever to Gilchrist, Gilly showed character and respect on and off the field. That is quite a bit more than what Harbhajan has done.

Well done Adam Gilchrist - "pot calling the kettle black" you did get batsman to return to the crease whenever you appealed and they were given out (and were actually not out) - great gamesmanship / very sporting.

You also did rebuke the Australian players or have had a lot to say about your team mate’s behaviour when they abused and carried on against opposition players (McGrath / Warne) - No you just laughed it off. Did you not defend your players whenever they were wrong by your silence? Whatever Sachin did he probably did to defend his player.

Sachin has always played the game fair and as a gentleman (so also you in probably 95% of the time).

Great for one to keep saying keep it all on the field and then when it suits, have a say in the autobiography. If a sub continent player made such statement about a revered Aussie player - Geez he would be absolutely media bashed & crucified by the Aussie cricket players - past and present. What am I talking about "

gilly has backed up his words off field with preformances on field! who else would walk in a world cup semi final? and after a sparkling career both preformance wise (on field) and with his media interviews and public behaviour (off field) and as a result he should be able to mention a thing or two about his observations and situations he had come accross through out his career and whats more should be believed as he has never done anyting for the public to doubt his word! Harbhajan on the other hand has never done anything to proove to the public that his word should be trusted! sachin was sticking up for a team mate and fair enough too but he did change his story and good on gilly for calling it how it is!!!

Sachin is undoubtedly one of the greatest players to have played the game, but for bloggers to claim that he always plays fair ignores his conviction on cheating in a test match. It was a conviction based on video evidence and it was ball tampering. How do you reconcile the saintly image with this fact. If you then point to incidences involving Australian test cricketers then you prove Gilly's point - no international cricketer is a saint. All the Australian test team believe that Sachin changed his testimony in Monkeygate to protect his teammate and save face. You and I don't know whether he lied or not.

Fairdinkum...i suggest you watch the video of the "so called" ball tampering well and tell me from which angle it looks like ball tampering. He is not an idiot to do it in plain sight if that was the case. And if that doesnt convince you still..get back to the basics or pick another sport...try ping pong..its less complicated. Get your facts right.