COLOMBO, FEB 10: Sri Lankan cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga has said he would not play in Australia again after the `ugly and partisan' treatment meted out to him by the Australian media and crowds during the on-going triangular series.Talking to newsmen here on his return from Australia, where his team failed to qualify for the finals, Ranatunga said, ``I don't think I will go back to Australia to play cricket anyway. I don't want to lose a couple of years of my life.''He said the crowds in the Indian sub-continent were thousand times better than the ones he has faced in Australia.``Those living in glass houses should not throw stones. Australia and England, whenever they tour the sub-continent, complain about unruly crowd behaviour. But they can not see the behaviour of their own crowds. I must say the conduct of the Indian and Pakistan crowds is thousand times better than the Australian crowd,'' he said.Ranatunga said this year's Australian tour was one of the most `troubled' tours of hiscareer as the Sri Lankan team had to play in a `surcharged' atmosphere.The Sri Lankan skipper received a six-match suspended sentence for leading his players off the field. Throughout the tour Ranatunga was targeted by the Australian crowds for his `arrogant' behaviour and chanted `Chucker' and 'No ball' whenever Muralitharan bowled against Australia and England, the skipper said yesterday.
