So you think that the people who were booing the Australian captain were Australian supporters? I don't get what you're on about mate.
He's saying that the people who booed Ponting when he made what was, after all, a gracious speech to the Indian team, showed neither class nor grace. And he was spot on.
Actually, I couldn't hear a lot of Dhoni's speech - did he acknowledge the efforts of the other team in the finals? If he did, one can say he showed some grace in his comments. If he didn't one can say his comments were not as gracious as they might have been, rather than graceless per se.
Anyway, really mate you're doing nowt more here than trying to flame bait.
[Insert trite sign off here like "My Two Cents"]
if you would hv read the last few posts then you would know .... ppl who booed the OZs could be [amongst others]
1. Indians who came to see the final from Ind
2. Australians of Ind origin
3. Inds who live, work, study in OZ
now his point was in short, it's ok if u boo in ur home venue but not ok at other team's venue .... then he unnecessarily assumed that those who booed the OZ team were Inds who live/work in OZ and who want to be OZ citizens which might not be the case at all and asking them to show class is an insult to such ppl
again, if the guys were from Ind then too telling them to boo in their home grounds but not at the other team's venue is like advising someone to be lion in his den and a mice outside of it .... which is not how most Inds are
now this has nothing to do with not condemining the crowd behavior in some sections, but it's abt drawing possible wrong conclusions from it abt the origin of the crowd and giving unwanted advise which is the point that i dislike
i m not the one who is going to assume things and jump the bandwgon and say 'oh yeah the crowd should hv showed class and not booed the OZ captain coz those ppl would be future citizens of OZ' [assumeing unnecessarily that those ppl want to be OZ citizens or are representative of that gruop]
and booing Ponting is not a major issue for me. heck, ppl will Boo George Bush in the States .... it would hv been better if he had just condemed the crowd behavior, rather than draw unnecessary assumptions and then offer advise
just my 2 cents