Pakistan and India most misbehaved teams in World Cricket

What a rubbish report.

Pakistan and India are also the worst-behaved sides with 53 and 44 reports, ahead of South Africa (41) and Australia (38). That the West Indies have received just 13 reports confirms the widely held belief that, despite their at-times sorrowful playing form, they have a deep-rooted respect for the way the game should be played.

More proof that umpiring is biased. Australia is without a doubt, the worst team in terms of behaviour. Yet, they are never fined or pulled aside for dissent as much as the South Asian teams...

Inzy is the most reported captain, while Lara the least. Hmm.

The rest of the story as reported...

TEST skipper Ricky Ponting remains a minor-league miscreant in world cricket compared to Pakistan's controversial Inzamam-ul-Haq.

Inzamam, who was once described as a "potato'' by a Canadian spectator, and feisty Indian captain Sourav Ganguly are officially the worst-behaved players of their generation, according to an ironclad source ... the International Cricket Council's code of conduct rap sheets.

Since the code was introduced under the supervision of match referees in 1992, Inzamam and Ganguly, whose international career appears to be over, have been reported 12 times each, seven times more than Ponting.

Pakistan and India are also the worst-behaved sides with 53 and 44 reports, ahead of South Africa (41) and Australia (38). That the West Indies have received just 13 reports confirms the widely held belief that, despite their at-times sorrowful playing form, they have a deep-rooted respect for the way the game should be played.

It starts with captain Brian Lara who, for all of his occasionally selfish and disruptive ways off the field, is renowned for accepting the umpire's decision. Lara is not perfect - he has one dissent charge for disputing an umpire's call against England - but generally accepts what he gets.

Inzamam, a normally self-contained man who spent the first decade of his career not saying boo, has a series of dissent charges, starting with an incident in Canada when he stormed into a crowd wanting to throttle a spectator who called him a "potato''.

He talks slowly and quietly and for the first half of his 14-year international career often used to say little, claiming he knew little English. That amused former captain Wasim Akram, who once laughed outside a hearing and said, "he understands every bloody word that is said''.

Speaking through an interpreter in Hobart in 2000, Inzamam said: "I am a very humble man, even in my own house.'' But he knows how to find controversy. His most high-profile crime is his recent decision not to return to the field on the fourth day of the fourth Test against England at The Oval.

Ponting's most recent indiscretion was when he questioned a wide call by Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf in Malaysia recently and was fined $4900. Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland has expressed concern at a stream of Australian reports over the past year.

"My strong feeling is that the bar has been raised a little bit by the ICC over the last 18 months,'' Sutherland said.