ODIs , T20 and racism

Finally I watched a T20 game. India-Australia in Mumbai. And it was interesting. But nowhere equivalent to Test cricket. Or for that matter ODIs. Indians do play well in patches. And they seem to play well in 20 overs - as seen in the ODIs against Australia as well. They picked up early wickets and put Australian team under pressure, only to let the Aussies loose in the last 10. They batted well to post decently good totals in the first 20 overs, but by then used to lose 4-5 wickets. This seems to make them fit to be called T20 cricket champions.
However, the ODIs continue to be the best shorter version of the game for me. It is certainly not predictive in nature as claimed by some idiots. Along with the Indo-Australia ODI series, 5 match England-SriLanka ODI series was also played out in Srilanka. First match of this series was won easily by SriLanka, thereby allowing these "experts" to dismiss the ODI format as repetitive and predictable. Let the "experts" say whatever they want to - England won the series 3-2 against everyone's expectations. If this is not the proof enough of uncertanities of ODIs, whatelse is ?

There is another aspect which made quite a news during the Future cup matches between India and Australia - "racism" against Andrew Symonds. I dont really understand why a big fuss was made out of it. Symonds certainly is one of the most gifted cricketers of all time. Apart from cricketing skills, he is gifted also in using his vocabulary skills against the opposite team members. He is one of the most vocal players anybody would find in a cricket playground who makes no hesitation is abusing his competitors. This certainly attracts the attention of the crowd in India who like to give it back as good as they percieve it ought to be done. The monkey chants of Mumbai crowd must be taken as it is and not to be seen with racist angle. Even as saying this, I am not in anyway defending the section of the crowd behaviour which was not good by any standards. I was quite shocked to read an article which read that Symonds who is of Carribean roots, was smashing the Indian bowlers thereby rendering the crowd to do mischief. If one were to go by this argument, Indians should have jeered at many of the SriLankan cricketers. Sanath Jayasuriya, quite dark as far as the colour of his skin goes, is one of the greatest ODI players ever and has hit the Indian bowlers possibly like no other player has ever done. Yet he is a respected cricketer in India. His on-field behaviour is something that the likes of Symonds should try to emulate and then see if Indian crowds still make monkey chants at him or racist remarks ( like his teammate Darren Lehmann ??). There is a limit to double standards.