- Weather | Horoscope | Stocks
expressindia web
HomeBlogsCricketAstrologyShoppingTendersClassifieds OpinionsTravel
| Make this your homepage | Archive
Expressindia » Story

Harbhajan case more important for us: BCCI

Font Size -

Agencies

Posted online: Tuesday , January 08, 2008 at 12:00:00
Updated: Tuesday , January 08, 2008 at 12:21:23


New Delhi, January 8: BCCI on Tuesday welcomed the removal of umpire Steve Bucknor from India's third Test against Australia in Perth and vowed to fight the racism slur on Harbhajan Singh.

"We are happy to hear that ICC has removed Bucknor from the third Test. It is a victory for us," said BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla.

"We have a Working Committee meeting in the evening where we will decide on the future course of action," Shukla said.

BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah, meanwhile, asserted that India would do everything to fight the racism slur on Harbhajan.

"We are watching the Harbhajan issue more closely. It is more important that the umpiring issue because he has been accused of racism and we will never tolerate any such thing," Shah said.

"We have already made an appeal against his ban and we are waiting for the process to start," he said.

Shah said BCCI had told ICC to look into the umpiring blunders in the match that cost India the second Test.

"We have told them to look at the decisions he has given which cost the match. Our team lost the match due to Bucknor and it is good for the team that he was changed," he said.

BCCI Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty also made it clear that the Board was not happy with the way Match Referee Mike Procter went by the Australian players and banned Harbhajan.

"For us, Harbhajan's case is more important at this point of time. The manner in which the hearing was conducted, that itself has been challenged. We are asking ICC to withdraw the charge against him," Shetty said.

Bookmark this Page
  • Digg

    On Digg, users share intersting online content by submitting links to the site. At that point, the Digg audience can vote on whether or not they think it is interesting. Articles with lots of votes, or "diggs," rise up higher on the site's main page and topical subsection pages. Another form of social sharing, this site also lets users categorize the content they are submitting to Digg and label it with descriptions of up to 350 characters. Digg users can also submit comments on each content item submitted to the site.

    To register, go to: http://digg.com/register

    del.icio.us

    At its most basic level, del.icio.us allows users to save their bookmarks online. Del.icio.us also gives users the ability to "tag" their bookmarks with descriptive category names. For example, someone who has bookmarked multiple Web pages that deal with the Washington Nationals baseball team could tag those links with any terms they want, like "baseball," "nationals," "natsfan," etc.

    As members of a "social bookmarking" community, del.icio.us sers can also see how many other people have bookmarked the same pages, and they can look at those users' bookmark collections to find other interesting online content.

    To register, go to: http://del.icio.us/register

    Reddit

    Reddit allows users to submit news articles and other online content to the site. Users also give articles a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Reddit then uses those votes to build a user profile and to find articles to recommend to you. Users can also submit comments on items posted to the site.

    To register, go to: http://reddit.com/login

Rate this Article
8
Rating
Ads by Google
Post Comments
Name* Email ID*
Subject* Country*
Message*
Characters remaining
 
TERMS OF USE: The views represented here are not neccesarily endorsed by www.expressindia.com and its allied websites. All messages will be moderated and no message that has inflammatory, abusive, derogatory language or any language deemed unfit for publication by the editor will be displayed. Though it will be endeavoured that as many messages as possible be displayed, there will be time lag between the submission and publication of the messages. The website reserves the right to publish or reject any message.
I agree to the terms of use.
Sikh terrorist by Aussie on 08 Jan 2008

Harbajan Singh is terrorist as represents Khalistan movement.

Its all allegations by Aussie on 08 Jan 2008

Harbhajan is innocent as there is no proof so it is same Afzal Guru is innocent as the prosecution failed to provide substantial proof of his involvment.

Its OZ's racism against india by Kashyap on 08 Jan 2008

Hey man! First the decisions by the umpires are all wrong atleast 9-10 decisions were wrong which costed us the match, the decision of RP singh, Dravid, Ganguly were all bloody rubbish. Without which india could have drawn this mathc with ease. Secondly umpires favoured OZ cos they were on their 16th consective win which india were likely to break. Now guys u tell me whether this mathc was biased or not? Kumble said the right thing "only one team played with the right spirit" WHICH IS INDIA. MERA BHARAT MAHAN

SEEMS LIKE INDIA CANNOT ANULL SECOND TEST by Ds and jack on 08 Jan 2008

So for records, Ozzie won the second test, Benson is OK. Bucknor will still be paid by ICC for good work.India should know it's position by now.

HARBHAJAN by PUJA on 08 Jan 2008

SUPPORT HARBHAJAN AS HE IS INNOCENT -- IT IS MADE UP ALLEGATIONS WITH NO PROOF AND EVIDENCE.DO NOT COMPROMISE ON UR DIGNITY. THE AUSSIES WANT THE CRUSH THE FREE SPIRIT OF HARBAHJAN DON'T LET THAT HAPPEN.

Can't read the article by Parag J on 08 Jan 2008

Can't even read the content because of the advertisements. Where is the IE webeditor? Would you please take note?

Racisam by Ramachandra B.Kundar on 08 Jan 2008

I know for sure that Harbhajan has not uttered the word monkey. I am really surprised that Match Referee Mike Procter has imposed ban on Harbhajn on the ground that he has uttered the word monkey at Symond (after hearing the version of Australian Team.) For a moment think Harbhajan has uttered the word MONKEY . How it will amounts to racism ? One must know all human beings are descendants of Monkey Clan only. Hence it never amounts to racism. In our day to day life also sometimes we call our relatives ,friends and collegues as monkey but it never mean racism.

Govt to sign N-deal 'come what may' : Congre...We should have supported N-deal a year ago: ...'Not clinching N-deal will be a historical m...Sree ate with Bhajji after being slappedMajority of Muslims not against the N-deal: ...Left awaiting Pranab's response on their ‘le...

© 2008 Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd. All rights reserved
The Indian Express Group | Advertise With Us | Privacy Policy | Feedback | Work With Us | Site Map