"I can get Ponting out any time. I think I can get him even after I come post a six-month lay-off ... [he] had a lot to say about our players and about the way we play our cricket. In fact, it is Ponting who first needs to go and learn to bat against spin bowling."

Harbhajan Singh, or the "sneering Sikh" as he was characterised in the Australian press, continues his post-series gloating