The Australian media might have dug out statistics to prove that Indian team has been the worst behaved in the last decade, but Michael Hussey begged to differ, saying the visitors did not sledge him even once in the ongoing series.

“I didn’t get sledged once while I was batting, and I didn’t sledge anyone throughout the first two Test matches,” Hussey was quoted as saying in the Sydney Morning Herald.

The left-hander also brushed aside the perception that tempers have been running high after the Sydney furore, asserting that it has been a case of just one incident — Andrew Symonds-Harbhajan Singh spat — overshadowing everything else.

“Apart from one major incident, I don’t feel there has been much heat, as in Sreesanth-Symonds sort of stuff, going on at all,” he said, referring to the on-field run-ins between Symonds and Indian pacer S Sreesanth during the one-day series in India last year.

Hussey, who scored a hundred after surviving a close caught behind appeal in the ill-tempered Sydney Test, said he rated the innings as the most satisfactory of his career.

“I probably rate it as my most satisfying because there is a perception out there that Western Australians don’t play spin very well, and to score a hundred on a fourth and fifth-day pitch against two quality spinners was very, very satisfying,” he said. Hussey said he was nervous about facing Anil Kumble in Sydney after having fallen cheaply to the veteran leg-spinner in the first Test in Melbourne.

“I was nervous against him [Kumble] initially because his record is unbelievable,” he said. “What made me doubly nervous was when Kumble got me out after just two balls in Melbourne, I was thinking this could be a real challenge,” he added.