Bored wi-th mundane sledging, Elite Panel umpire Simon Taufel feels the India-Australia series points towards a tough season ahead when the players would be keen to gain every possible advantage against their rivals.

Voted cricket’s best international umpire for the past four years, Taufel said he might come across some volatile situations during the forthcoming India-Pakistan series.

“Yeah, look it is fiery between India and Pakistan. Fortunately, the players themselves handle it reasonably well,” Taufel was quoted as saying in the Australian media.

“There’s a lot of a media focus on it as we know, but I think coming out the back end of the Australia-India one-day series, we have seen that we are in for a tough summer of cricket where there is a lot of competitive players out there who are really striving for whatever advantage they can get,” he said.

The Australian said he was bored with the repetitive language used by some players and would step in to prevent sledging turning into ugly scenes as happened between S Sreesanth and Andrew Symonds.

“Once it broaches personal issues and superce-des your moral boundaries of what language is tolerable, you have to step in.”