These gems are from Malcolm Conn from The Australian — and for those of you that do not know The Australian or Malcolm Conn, Conn is the senior guy in the stable that produced Peter Lalor! Perhaps Malcolm Conn, like Lalor is an Indofile too huh?

Anyway, Conn screams India turns up verbal assault but Ponting sticks to his game plan.

Meanwhile Saint Ponting suggests rather demurely, respectfully, sagaciously and in his usual sanguine, pipe-in-one-hand-brandy-in-the-other statesmanlike