Hyderabad, Oct 4 : Australian skipper Ricky Ponting today said that the aggression being shown by the Indian team was nothing but an attempt to put a brave front to face them.

Commenting on the aggression shown by some of the Indian players during the first two matches, Ponting told a press conference ahead of the third one-day international to be played here on Friday, that this was not the way Indian team generally played cricket.

"In the first couple of games, there hasn't been too much difference in aggression shown by the both the teams. It has probably been more of body language shown by Indians as well as our side. I think that much is to be expected,” he said.

“They must have thought that how they are going to take us, take fire by fire, all that sort of stuff. I think probably what we have seen hasn't surprised too many of us in the Australian team. But at the end of the day, it doesn't worry us all. We know that's not the way they play their cricket; they are trying to put up some sort of brave front and brave face," Ponting added.

Meanwhile, Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh has accused the Australians making vulgar and personal comments against him during the Kochi ODI.

Recalling the incident after his dismissal by Michael Clarke at the Nehru International Stadium, Harbhajan told the Sydney Morning Herald that his outburst was prompted by several fieldsmen engaging in vulgar language after his dismissal.

"I was responding to a lot of vulgar words that were said to me. I don't have any problem with chitchat on the field, so long as it is about the game. But when it is very personal and vulgar, that is not on. They think you cannot fight back and they do not like it when you do.

"I won't listen to that crap. If they want to play like that, they'll get it back from us," he said.

Harbhajan further said that the tourists were arrogant and still smarting from their defeat at the Twenty20 World Cup.

"They think they are superior and can do and say whatever they like, but that is not the case," Harbhajan said, adding, "They are very bad losers. They were beaten in the (Twenty20) World Cup and they clearly did not like that.

"They are a very good cricket side, but that does not mean that they can do whatever they want to do. They say they play the game in the right spirit, but they don't in reality. There is nothing gentlemanly about the way they play,” he said. (With inputs from ANI)