At last the ICC has decided to form a committee to resolve the issue of so called unauthorized cricket. Committee consists of Giles Clarke, the ECB chairman, Norman Arendse, the Cricket South
Africa president, Shashank Manohar, the BCCI's president-elect, Lalit
Modi, a vice-president of the BCCI [and the IPL's chairman and
commissioner] and David Becker, the ICC's senior counsel - business and
commercial.
With Lalit and Shashank on the committee, there are tough chances that the committee would declare IPL rivals ICL as an authorized cricket body. May be this is an official way of killing ICL. I remain skeptical.
"The referee studied video tapes of the incident and found the assault
by Harbhajan was totally unprovoked. The footage exactly showed that
Harbhajan went down the line, wishing all the players, shaking hands
with a few players," said Lalit Modi, the commissioner of the IPL who
is also a vice-president of the BCCI. "Sreesanth was the third player
that he met. Instead of shaking his hand he actually slapped him and
continued down the line, shaking hands with the other players."
Sreesanth was let off with a warning after video evidence showed
Harbhajan slapped him without any provocation. Where as Harbhajan Singh was slapped a ban of 11 to 13 IPL games. Additionally, BCCI will be taking its on action against the spinner. The duo embraced at the
end of the hearing after Harbhajan offered an apology in front of the
cameras.
I hope, Bhajji will concentrate more on his bowling than these kind of incidences.
Harbhajan Singh has been temporarily suspended from the Indian Premier
League following his spat with Sreesanth at the end of the
Mumbai-Punjab game in Mohali on Friday. His suspension, based on new
video evidence, is pending an inquiry on Monday into the incident,
which means he will not be able to play Mumbai's home match against the
Deccan Chargers on Sunday.
"Based on prima facie video evidence, as seen
and reviewed by the match adjudicator and referee Farokh Engineer from
the tapes provided by Sony & TWI, a decision has been reached to
suspend Harbhajan pending the inquiry into the incident on Monday,
April 28," Lalit Modi, chairman and commissioner of IPL, said.
Harbhajan Singh is in the new again. And this time Harbhajan allegedly slapped Sreesanth after
Mumbai Indians lost their IPL match to Kings XI Punjab last night and the
paceman was seen bitterly crying on the field.
"It looks like a serious matter the
way it's being shown on television channels but I can't say anything now. In any
tournament it should not happen, it's unfortunate what happened yesterday," Lalit Modi, Chairman of IPL
told reporters here.
