Has Bhajji exposed Sachin with one tight slap?
Former CBI director R.K. Raghavan in The Hindu:
“No cricket fan will be amused by what happened at Mohali. By all accounts, Harbhajan Singh slapped a hapless S. Sreesanth, all because the latter made a gratuitous remark, ‘hard luck’, which a captain losing three successive matches could not stomach….
“Now we know who spoke the truth when Andrew Symonds complained against Bhajji in Australia. That was a shameful cover-up in which a magnanimous Sachin (Tendulkar) also took part and blotted his reputation.
“Twenty20 has already won ignominy through the so-called cheerleaders, whose public display of flesh is deplorable. It is widely believed that the BCCI has lost its sense of proportion because of unabashed Mammon worship.”
Read the full piece: Mohali incident and BCCI’s duty
Tags: Andrew Symonds, BCCI, Churumuri, Harbhajan Singh, Indian Premier League, IPL, S. Sreesanth, Sachin Tendulkar, The Hindu
27 April 2008 at 11:58 am
Oh come on!
Just because Harbhajan proves he is an idiot (again), does not mean that Sachin is a liar.
I mean we are using subsequent conduct (not the same as last time mind you), to re-align our understanding of past events going against the word of the eye-witness.
27 April 2008 at 2:55 pm
I’m sure Sachin will try his best to save Harbhajan this time around too.
27 April 2008 at 5:34 pm
Hard core fans of Sachin probably cann’t stomach it, but others can figure out now what actually was and is the truth.
Sachin is great with the bat but not with his discretion.
He should learn the meaning of ‘diplomatic silence’ in crunch situations!
27 April 2008 at 5:44 pm
Bhajji has exposed himself. He has made everyone silently wonder if Haydens description of Harbhajan as an “obnoxious weed” was apt, after all. Also that perhaps it is Bhajji who is doing the mokeying around after calling Symonds that. Saddest part is that people in India are too eager to rally in support of Bhajji but he himself did not support his fellow-Indian who won a match. Another double-standard is of Indians…they close their eyes to shortcomings of Indian cricketers whenever there is a controversy in the global scenario, but at home, they play favourties. In fact, even now there is some speculation whether Sreesanth “deserved” it. But no one deserves to be humiliated and physically beaten up –I wonder why Preity who is pretty feisty did not do something more then and there. Nobody wondered what Bhajji may have done to earn the name weed. Anyway, looks like he is being weeded out for the time being at least.
27 April 2008 at 6:24 pm
Waiting for yuvraj to do his thing and punch, kick and abuse someone. Afterall he cant let his obnoxious buddy Harbhajan to outdo him for too long…
27 April 2008 at 9:25 pm
That is called “taking one for the team”. Let me turn the question back to Mr. former CBI head - was CBI pure as a ’sita” under him?
28 April 2008 at 6:48 am
What ever sympathy Herbajan had from the cricket loving public after the Australian summer, has been lost after this incident.
As has been said many a times about IPL ‘it is all money not cricket’.
28 April 2008 at 12:42 pm
‘Cheer leaders. whose public display of flesh…’ Raghavan must be blind or doesn’t watch Sun ,Jaya TV, zoom or for that matter film songs which are shown on TV.At least cheer girls are only dancing by themselves: they don’t have a hero gyrating in all kinds of poses with the heroine mouthing double entenders in which our lyrisits have specialised.Our film award functions are an excuse to show bare bodied , bald 40+ old actors dancing topless to show their 12-packs and where our heroines do ‘live’ ‘Item’ dances.Chief Ministers and Home Ministers sit in the front row ogling at the stars.Nobody talks of protecting ‘Indian culture’ at that time!’
28 April 2008 at 1:43 pm
ERR , u just hit the nail on the head! surely we r a nation of hypocrites.. shameful..
28 April 2008 at 8:26 pm
RK Raghavan knows what Harbhajan did in Sydney a few months ago, because he saw what Harbhajan did last week in Mohali? And this guy used to be director of the CBI? What is a retired detective doing writing about sport?
28 April 2008 at 10:45 pm
>>”…bald 40+ old actors dancing topless to show their 12-packs and where our heroines do ‘live’ ‘Item’ dances..”
—So you do agree that it is sick. Dont you? How then do you summon the courage to jump to the defense of IPL’s own live band when they’re targeted? Simply because, in your opinion, the Bollywood live band is even more distasteful than the IPL’s live band?! The same old sickening “show me something bad.. and I’ll show you something worse..” defense.
>>”ERR , u just hit the nail on the head! surely we r a nation of hypocrites.. shameful..”
–Nothing could be more hypocritical or dishonest than arguing that two wrongs make a right. And yes, you did hit the nail on the head. We are indeed a nation of hypocrites.
28 April 2008 at 11:06 pm
So Bhajji nails the coffin himself. The camera caught this “MAA KI” or Monkey. Enough is enough. He should be banned for Life. And save future cricket.
29 April 2008 at 5:29 am
what is more scandalous? the northie rif-raff slapping shreesanth or the bcci letting him off with a mickey mouse 10 match ban?!!! What does it take for a life ban? 50 slaps? And why isnt the media showing us the video of actual slap? Because the obnoxious weed’s cola sponsors will get pissed? If someone had told me 10 years ago that there’d come a day when even the thought of supporting Indian cricket would make me want to puke, I’d have laughed at them… today I’m sick in the stomach. We got to be the most hypocritical, shameless, excuse of a nation in the whole wide world.
29 April 2008 at 10:00 am
After all the tall talk, IPL has literally let Bhajji go with just a light rap on the knuckles. That coach has to be sacked and Bhajji should be banned for life –only the grounds of ill-behaviour on the cricket field. His action, Modi’s description of it is enough to nail him. Sreesanth should not go around forgiving him. On the other hand, he should approach the court of law on the grounds of being “abused and defamed” and claim damages as well. If he had already mended his behaviour as was evident in the Mohali match (as Modi himself has said), then where is the need to harp over his past behaviour. That too when Bhajji’s present behaviour has not been dealt with as it should have been.
2 May 2008 at 8:14 am
Angaadre gaddada udga, “nee kothi, nimmappa marakothi” anno thara maathaadiddu dita.
Salman Rushdie, where are you?