This statement might sound exaggeration to North Indian's ears (including Pakistani Punjab) Maaki and behan ki are more like helping verbs and casually used by almost every north indian in daily life be it with friends or when they are fighting. Just watch any Ind vs Pak series pre 2007 for example.
This was the first test series i started following the Indian team and ironically this is the same series when Aussie team earned the term " Pack of Wolve/wild dogs". The amount of cheating Aussie did in this series were freaking embarrassing and cheating not only on technical level but gully cricket cheating, including umpires and almost every Australian media wanted Pointing's head due to this.
Well, what might sound very regular to someone, might sound very offensive to others. Harbhajan Sing did not have any higher education if I remember correctly. He just had schooling. He went to Jai Hind model School. Other than that I did not find any solid educational background in this player and to be honest I don't think we can expect any kind of good behavior from a person who is not properly educated. I am not saying this to verbally attack anyone. I am just giving a general thought.
But, another thing is probably he was really frustrated and that's why he could not control his emotion. Because that can often happen in the flow of things. And Australia was playing dirty in that series if I remember correctly. There was some blatant cheating.
Let's not confuse higher education/speaking fluent English with intelligence/civilised etc.
In county Pujara and every brown player were called Steve and Paki, just to make fun.
Harbhajan was mocked by Aussie cricketer because he was wearing turban, they literally said " You got balls on your head?" We all know what "Balls" they were talking about.
Aussie used to sledge Ranatunga with " Black cunt" "Fat cunt". Jayasuriya faced many "Black Monkey" remarks from Mcgrath and for Moeen Ali they used " Osama"
In Aussie worldview, in last decade Virat was the only Indian batter to get into their own national team without any fuss, only because of this attitude. Also background also matters, as you know Virat is from Delhi and you can't survive in Delhi cricket circuit without this attitude (Unless you're funny character like Sehwag and Nehra ji), it's extremely tough in local level, just look at Virat and Gambhir.
Australian players are known for some very good amount of sledging but they never talk about anything racial or anything that is too personal. At least that's what I think. Australia really liked to play mind games. They always tried to have any type of advantage that they could get over their opponent. And it is absolutely true that not only in India but in almost the whole region if you have a good background and powerful people who can recommend you, you will be able to play in the Indian team very quickly.
Hmm
Well we must be following different Australian teams. In my reading and experience Aussie team top the list in racial abuse and being too personal on the cricketing field without any doubt. Having said that i agree that post Sand Paper controversy they changed the tune, not completely but there is a significant improvement.
When i said " Extremely tough in local level" i didn't meant having a god-father or well connected. I was referring to cut throat competition and rawness behaviour in the local circuit. I've said this many time that the only thing i like about BCCI is they never rely on Nepotism when selecting a national team, yeah you could find some examples in Ranji etc but it would be for max 1-2 match because of competition.
