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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Officials hid behind 'cultural misunderstanding' - Symonds

Andrew Symonds has said he got "darker at the world" during Australia's tour of India last year, when he was subjected to monkey chants by the crowd, and by his subsequent altercations with Harbhajan Singh, who was charged for racist abuse against Symonds earlier this year.

Symonds was left out of the Test squad for Australia's ongoing series in India on disciplinary grounds after he skipped a team meeting to go fishing ahead of the ODI series against Bangladesh, which his team-mates felt was one misdemeanour too many in a year when his attitude had raised eyebrows within the squad. He said the events in India and then in Australia had made him "physically tired and mentally worn down" by the end of the season.

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