Ponting sacrificed the moral high ground in the aftermath. He drew attention to England’s apparent sharp tactics (i.e. time-wasting), while completely overlooking his own conduct, which involved questioning a number of umpiring decisions, a far greater sin than waving the 12th man on to use up a couple of minutes. All it did was emphasize that the Australians were bad losers. Which, if you think about it, they have always been, from Bodyline onwards. It was they who invented whingeing, not the English.
