ANDREW Symonds has been subjected to yet another round of monkey chants, this time by sections of the Wankhede Stadium crowd during Wednesday night's seventh and final one-day international.

The incident occurred on the same day that the Board of Control for Cricket in India finally relented and pledged to investigate racist crowd behaviour, having initially attempted to dismiss the issue.

But there can be no denying it now. Following his dismissal for a first-ball duck to spinner Murali Kartik on Wednesday, the Australian all-rounder was taunted with the same monkey chants he was subjected to in Vadodara six days ago. Many local observers had predicted Wednesday's events, with the Wankhede Stadium crowd regarded as the most hostile and vitriolic in India.

Australian team manager Steve Bernard consulted ICC match referee Chris Broad and ICC security manager NS Virk about the taunts. Virk in turn dispatched police, who evicted several perpetrators.

Symonds has been portrayed as a villain by the Indian press in recent weeks, and he was jeered loudly by spectators both on his way to the centre and his return to the pavilion. But it was the monkey taunting following his dismissal that will most upset the Queenslander and his teammates, all of whom had hoped the issue was close to being resolved.