Ricky Ponting, one of Australia's most successful captains, has revealed the worst moment during his captaincy. Ponting has admitted that Monkeygate was the worst time of his captaincy tenure. Monkeygate had heavily grilled Australian cricket. This was the episode when Harbhajan Singh confronted Andrew Symonds. After this dispute, Symonds alleged that Harbhajan called him a monkey. The matter grew so much that the team started thinking about the boycott of India tour. Sachin Tendulkar has mentioned this in his autobiography 'Playing it my way'. He wrote that this episode was unnecessarily blamed. If the then Australian captain Ricky Ponting and the match referee Mike Proctor wanted it, the matter would not have come up so much. It is in January 2008. In Australia, the game starts between nine to ten o'clock in the morning, but around 4 o'clock in the morning, according to the time of India.
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According to reports, it was the second Test of the series, the first Test was played in Melbourne, which the Indian team had lost. Adorned with antics like Sachin, Dravid, VVS, the Indian team was desperate to return in the second Test. The game started, the Australian team won the toss, chose to bat and scored 463 runs in the first innings. In response, the Indian team scored 532 runs in the first innings. VVS and Sachin scored a century. Sachin and Harbhajan shared a 129-run partnership for the eighth wicket. Bhajji scored a half-century and the story of the Monkey Gate episode started during this partnership.
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Tendulkar wrote in his book that this matter started when Bhajji had scored 50 runs. Bhajji had told me many times that Andrew Symonds was trying to provoke him. I told them to concentrate on batting by not paying attention to these things. After convincing Sachin, Harbhajan once again got involved in his work. Obviously, Australian players were considered to be the first in sledding with cricket and it is easy to maintain restraint under pressure.
