Australia must get its house in order

Typical Roebuck rubbish. Exaggeration with no substance. There are problems in all countries, including racism. About time the tall poppy syndrome went on to India as well, regardless of the centre of cricket power and PR being there. If you start fencing people in here, spectators will no longer attend and cricket will start losing out on its current position of strong interest. We have a different heritage here. Just introduce higher fines first and thereaten state cricket authorities (WA for one) with not seeing any further games held there if they won't cooperate.

The issue about this article is that do not compare Drunk australians to Terrorists, What would be the case if tommorrow someone brings in a knife and stab someone.. or even this tackle could have caused him to die. There is no streaking in India or Pakistan during international matched as they do not allow alcohol during games and and to tackle the issues in past, Indians have already done well enough to put nets so people can't throw stuff. So don't blame Indians of being same as these drunk people

No doubt the goodie two shoes running this nanny country will eventually ban grog at cricket venues, footy venues and the like, just like our parks and beaches and once again an extremely small minority will have spoiled it for the vast majority. Most people are reasonable with their drinking and the the only result is a huge increase in the 'atmosphere' of the place. No Peter, Australia, contrary to what the rest of the cricket world thinks, does not carry the burden of all that is good and right about the game, it is a joint responsibility. Other countries have for too long lambasted Aussie cricket and its cricketers and condoned their own for similar conduct offences. I wonder what the cricket world would have made of it if Ponting had of taken a bite out of a cricket ball?

Boooooooooring. Roebuck has sunk lower than before. I read a couple of lines and knew where the rest of article was headed. It's almost become a norm to pander to the Indian cricket team, anything remotely related to it and the gargantuan system that feeds off it. I doubt whether Roebuck really cares about the Pakistani cricketers. He has just used that link to weave together unrelated facts and sensationalize an article. I am an Indian and find such articles amusing.

I hope the person responsible is caned on the buttocks.

What's with all these Aussies attacking PR? Let's read beyond the words and get a grip of what he's actually saying. Security is a concern today more than before, so if it's going to be perimeter fencing and/or alcohol ban, so be it. More importantly, as the stage and stakes are bigger and when there's more money into showing support, hooliganism is bound to set in and one need not look beyond soccer to see the trend in mass popular sports. There's tons of truth on Aussie racism and their 'living in denial'. All one that has to do is to look at the sheer number of crimes against Indians in Australia and the way it has shot up from the previous years. Does anybody here care to put up the numbers and get a reality check? How is a Aussie pitch invader a clown, while a few Indian fans (of the several tens of thousands) caricaturing a monkey not clowninsh? In fact it was the Aussie media that made an issue of it! And before you guys say "oh those Indians", hold a mirror and look at it!

A reasonably well-balanced article. However, this incident in Perth was probably driven by alcohol rather than racism. Like Ricky Ponting I was sickened by this incident. Fortunately this field invader was nothing more than a drunken clown. And fortunately he was not armed with any weapon such as knife. What annoyed me was that the security failed by letting this drunk get to the player. I realise that most people drink responsibly, however I do agree with Mr Roebuck that CA should consider banning alcohol at matches. Yes, this is a big statement and yes it may reduce crowd numbers. However, it will only take one serious act of drunken stupidity to tarnish Australias cricketing reputation. In Perth nothing serious eventuated out of the tackle, but had the player been injured then the cricketing world would have concerns about safety at Australian grounds. I had been going to games at the Gabba for over 25 years. Now I no longer go because I am sick of people spilling beer all over me.

So well informed. The PM speaks Mandarin (Putonghua) not Cantonese. Perhaps to Mr. Roebuck "they all sound alike".

Really, Mr. Roebuck? I am not sure what you have against Aussie cricket. Anything they do seems to be wrong. I cannot understand how this pitch invasion by one person has become an 'attack on pak. player'. I am not sure if the invader had a enmity towards Latif, and Latif did not have a great day. It was simply the case of first-player-in-the-path. Now don't go and tie up this to racism. Have you forgotten the Eden gardens WC semi-final '96? I dont think the spectators were drunk then.

Spanky's (look up Roebuck and his brush with the English law at Taunton ) pious, and long standing anti Australian rhetoric in cricketing matters is legend. When are you going to condemn Afridi's attempted dental disintegration, support Daryl Hair for upholding the Laws of Cricket and comment on Bedi's evaluation that Harbhajan is a CHUKKER ? (Times of India article of today) and that the doorsra cannot be delivered within the law. How about just for once you fall on the side of the laws of cricket and write an article that actually analyses the pattern of sustained Sub Continental attempts to bend the rules.