Harbhajan Suspended for until Hearing!

A BCCI press release has just landed: "Based on prima facie video evidence as seen and reviewed by the match adjudicator and referee Mr. Farokh Engineer from the tapes provided by Sony & TWI. A decision has been reached to suspend with immediate effect Mr. Harbhajan Singh of the Mumbai Indians pending the inquiry into the incident on Monday, April 28th 2008"

After the match between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab, the televsion camera captured the live pictures of Sreesanth crying uncontrollably. He was bursting tears from emotion and Kings XI Punjba team members helped him to calm down. No one knew what had happened, but later the news channels flashed the news saying "Harbhajan slapped Sreesanth"

Both the players denied the incident during a quick invidiual interview. They both said they are brothers and a full stop can be put to the incident. Sreesanth does not want to complain, but his team was not ready to do that. They have launched the complaint.



The IPL is tournament of BCCI and hence BCCI has the right to investigate it and punish the players, if required. The official broadcaster Sony TV has captured the incident and based on that, suspension has been forced on Harbhajan. This means, he will not play the match against Deccan Chargers, which is a crucial tie, considering both the teams are trying to open their winning account.

During the post match interview, the captain of Kings XI described the incident as "ugly."

Harbhajan has been given time till Monday to respond to the notice issued by BCCI.

Bhajji Slapped Sreesanth?

The recent controversy in the recently started IPL and the cricketing world is the clash between Harbhajan and Sreesnath. After the match between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab, which was on by the latter, the TV screesn captured live pictures of Sreesanth crying.

The commentators describing it as "uncontrollable tears. What's wrong with Sreesanth? Is it the win? It looks like something more than the win."

Later, the private news channels flashed the news saying "Bhajji slapped Sreesanth" Though there were no direct evidence shown by these channels, they repeatedly published the news and increased the tempo and attraction in the incident.

In the post-match interview, Bhajji, very arrogantly replied "I'm here to talk Cricket" You're in the ground to play cricket--which means, bowl, or hit the ball with the bat, or field. You're not in the ground to hit somebody, Mr. BHAJJI!

Later in the interview to private channel, Harbhajan said:

he pushed Sreesanth, but did not slap him.
He is like a brother
They will play together in the future;

He is not sure about the complaint to be launched by Kings XI Punjab

Sreesnath said:

He did not slap me;
He burst hit because he was running fever in the morning, an important match, and the incident in the end, everything triggered his emotions.
Bhajji is like an elder brother and he has the right to do what he did
He need not apologize
No need to file an official complain
They will play together

We have to wait and see what actions will be taken against Bhajji and Sreesanth, if at all action is taken!