The leading Indian off-spinner - Harbhajan Singh’s fate hangs in balance as the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) is going to decide on the judgment for slapping his fellow national team-mate Sreesanth.

The terminator (Harbhajan Singh) reportedly slapped Sreesanth in an IPL Match held between Kings XI Punjab and Mumbai Indians. Analyzing the scenario in which Bhaji slapped Sreesanth is an interesting one. Sreesanth was provoking and sledging his opponent team – the Mumbai Indians from time to time. Harbhajan Singh at that point of time was a stand-in skipper for the Mumbai Indians team. Captaincy was a new task assigned to him. 3 back to back losses was a major setback to their Team. At this juncture, the witty Sreesanth passed some provoking remarks to Harbhajan Singh which triggered anguish and anger, and resulted in slap. Certain set of sources say that Sreesanth wanted to give it back to Bhaji but was restrained by security guards and fellow team-mates. Both the players should have reacted in a mature way which would have shown the game in the right spirits.

After the trial, Farooq Engineer (Match Referee) banned Harbhajan Singh from playing 11 IPL matches and warned Sreesanth to behave in a professional way in the matches to come. The issue did not stop from here but has also been escalated to BCCI which has expressed anguish over Harbhajan’s unruly behavior. Bhaji is awaiting a decision from BCCI which might impose heavy penalty on his career in International Cricket.

Posted on May 11th, 2008 by Cricket
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