In his memoirs 'The Close of Play', Ricky Ponting has questioned Sachin's role in the 'Monkey-gate scandal' involving Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds during Sydney Test(2008). "I couldn't understand why Tendulkar didn't say anything when match referee suspended Singh, but later favoured Singh in the special hearing." Adam Gilchrist had also expressed the same view in his autobiography 5-years ago.