'I’ll say sorry in public, give me another chance'

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Posted online: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 02:28:57
Updated: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 03:55:52

New Delhi, May 7: Faced with the possibility of being banned for a few matches by the BCCI, the beleaguered Harbhajan Singh has appealed to the cricket board to give him 'one final chance' before taking disciplinary action against him.

The 27-year-old off-spinner, who has already been banned by the IPL organisers for rest of the tournament for slapping his India teammate S Sreesanth, has written a fresh letter to the BCCI just two days ahead of the disciplinary hearing to be conducted by the Board-appointed Commissioner Sudhir Nanavati in Ahmedabad.

In his letter, Harbhajan said he had apologised to Sreesanth after the incident in Mohali and was willing to do it again in public, a TV channel reported on Wednesday.

"Along with accepting my most sincere and heartfelt apologies over this incident, I would like to appeal to the BCCI's sense of fair play and ask for one final chance before taking any disciplinary action against me over this incident," he said in the letter.

Although the IPL governing council has already penalised him, the BCCI will also punish him separately for the level 4 offence as per the ICC Players' Code of Conduct. A level 4 offence leads to a maximum punishment of a life ban or a minimum ban of five Tests or 10 ODIs.

When contacted, BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah said Harbhajan has been writing a number of letters and it was not proper for him to divulge the contents.

"The inquiry is going on. We are waiting for the report," Shah said.

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HARBHAJAN by Raj Kay on 12 May 2008

Cannot trust after what he has done to a fellow team mate and this has followed immediately after the entire country stood for him on the Symonds incident. He has just shown that all of us who backed are just fools as he continues to be indecent indisciplined person. MR PAWAR IT IS JUST NOT WORTH IT TO BET ON HARBHAJAN - WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF OTHER BRILLIANT CRICKETERS WHO MAY TAKE TO HOOLIGANISM UNLESS THIS GUY IS REINED IN.

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Harbhajan Singh by Thodasa on 11 May 2008

If BCCI does not punish Harbhajan further, it will make "Har Bhai"'s slap each other and make mockery of Cricket and game.India has I billion people, let Harbhajan gets out the cricket and do Anger Management training for others.

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Harbhajan character by lavachand on 10 May 2008

Harbhajan singh is a sportsman in a international standardand he has to know that in a sports one will lose

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The chronic idiotic joker! by Ramu on 09 May 2008

This is more funny than his slapping, punching and pushing Sree like a street goon! Now he wants to apologise in public to get away from punishment! What happened to his macho, aggressive approach! What happened to 'One Sikh is Enough' joke! I think what he meant was one Sikh is More than enough for All sports in India (After KPS Gill of Hockey disaster) and Harby the eteranl cricket disaster! Now, all the murderers and rapists can also publicly say sorry and escape punishment in India?! What a joker this idiot is!

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Throw out Sree and Harby! by Ramu on 08 May 2008

India have a lot of talented players performing well in the IPL. Get these young, worthy guys in! BCCI; this is your best chance to weed out the stupid, non-cricketers!

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