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Describing the ban on Harbhajan as unfair and unacceptable, the BCCI made it clear that it will fight the "false slur" cast on its ace spinner.
After a meeting of its top office bearers to take stock of the situation, the BCCI said India's national commitment is against racism and it was committed to protect the honour of the country.
BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla told PTI that president Sharad Pawar had convened the meeting which discussed all the developments which led to India's defeat in the second Test against Australia and also the issue of Harbhajan Singh.
The Cricket Board came out with a statement, saying that it was committed to protect the country's fair name.
Following is the statement by BCCI president Sharad Pawar.
"BCCI is filing an appeal challenging match referee Mike Proctor's order on spinner Harbhajan Singh.
"Unfair allegation of racism against our Indian player is wholly unacceptable. The game of cricket is paramount but so too is the honour of India's cricket team and every Indian.
"The BCCI is committed to protect the country's fair name. India's national commitment is against racism. Our national struggle is based on values which negate racism."
"BCCI will fight this false and unfair slur cast on our player. BCCI will request the ICC and in its appeal to suspend the order against Harbhajan Singh till the disposal of the appeal," Pawar said.
BCCI has also called an emergency working committee meeting in Delhi on Tuesday.
The meeting has been called to discuss all the happenings in the Australian tour, CAO Ratnakar Shetty said.
The off-spinner was banned yesterday for three Tests after the ICC Match Referee Mike Procter in a marathon six-and-a-half hour hearing upheld the Australian charge that he had racially abused all-rounder Andrew Symonds.
The appeal has to be lodged with the ICC's legal counsel in writing within 24 hours and the team has delayed its departure from Sydney to do the paperwork.
The appeal will be made to the Commissioner of Appeals and pending the appeal, the off-spinner can continue to play.
why not drop sachin tendulkar in odi as like saorav ganguly.who give right to dhoni for team selection.
I think the aussies are basically bas__tards. They behave like a bunch of maa- dhar - ch0ds. Basically their ancestors are all bhen-ch0ds and they where sent to austaralia as criminals after being ch0d0fied by the emperor of britin. This is the reason they look like monkeys and not kangaroos. Harbhajan Zindabad
Hi netizens of India - in addition to showing your anger here. Can you please go to these sites and also circulate these addresses as fast as possible to all your friends.Australians will only react if comments and polls in Australian sites indicate our anger. The sites where some of the polls are conducted include:http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/poll/vote/www.theage.com.auwww.theaustralian.com.auwww.brisbanetimes.com.auwww.couriermail.com.auLets not waste our time showing our anger to each other - lets hit where it will be noticed.Please, please, please - do something and do it now and also circulate these addresses to all your friends and collegues.
Anil should have called Indian team out of pitch as Ganguli was given out.
Mr.Procter,I understand that it was a tough decision to make but when you made such a decision(against Harbhajan) so quickly without any evidences. Why don't you look into the complaint lodged by BCCI against Brad Hogg(Evidences available) asap. Why do you want to take up this case only on 13th or 14th. This is becuse you don't want Brad Hogg to miss the match. This is called racial discrimination.
Bhaji is dead WRONG in doing what he dis as Symonds pointed out. BHAJI can not hit anyone on back with a bat. Period.
Call off the tour and ban ICC totally, who are cashing in on the popularity of the asian sub continent.
If BCCI is a professional body, and understands the meaning of national honour and player's honour, then they wouldnt have taken this long to suspend this farcial tour.It looks like BCCI finally is going to decide to continue with this tour, putting the Indian players to further ridicule, shame and emberrassment!!!BCCI if you want to do something then do it now.
You don't jut get honor from portraying a false inmage to the world. If there is racism, you do not maintain your image by ignoring it, you only have any sort of honor if you confront it and deal with it. This is the height of tribalism, where if my daughter is raped, I will have to kill her because, like a bird who throws its ckick out of the nest if a "foreign" bird just touches it a contaminates it,my honor is gone. This kind of tribalism is devoid of honor.It is like a little child who doesn't understand that it should take responsibility for its wrong doing and not blame others, and sadly, the left in the West also see the entire non-West as children. You have to start realizing that arranged marriage and cast systems are barbaric, racist, tribal and downright wrong, just like how the west got rid of slavery, and the west now have massive (millions) of immigrants living here as equals and even more sometimes.Denying that you have a caste system and therefore are a nation of bigots, where every person thinks they are royalty, is not honorable. In the west, this is the height of cowardice, stupidity, and utter dishonor.
What honor? Here is one for you. You learned some where about cast system in a casual coversation and you think you know everything? How do you treat blacks and hispanics in this country is well known. This is one of the biggest bogotry I have heard. Why your crusades are still going on to covert every possible soul becase yours is the best one. You morons, wake up. If you live a glass castle, you don't throw a stone at someone's hut. You know what the result could be?
WHAT are you TALKING about ? Do you just want to vent ? What has ANYTHING that you talked to do with Cricket and the current topic that is being discussed ? If you want to vent go to your spouse and vent. Oh Sorry, sorry, did not realize that your spouse may kick you if you talk nonsense like you did here and thats why you do it here. Gothca !!! :-)
Mate,i pity you guys to accept bastrd as a common word and not abusive, are u also the illeterate who is claiming the monkey to be your immediate ancestor or saying that you accept being addressed a bastard, that showws your respect for your woman. and lets not talk about the evil practices in india, ther has been a lot of changes and ther will be too but i wonder how much of it you can appreciate, anyway cricket australia depends on the rvenue from the subcontinent and cricket is anyway dying because you can only play footy. no rules , all drugs and violence.now who is prehistoric here.
Since when have these Conressis for whom licking the boots of the Nehru-Mafia khandan is a born characteristic, worried about national honour? Laughable. Rajiv Shukla and Sharad Pawar will be beating a hasty retreat tomorrow when Madam tells them to respect the White Skinned Chrisitan cousins from Australia in the true sipirit of sevitude. Shameful Politicians they will sell their mother for a few Rupees from the betting mafia.
This is the right time to show "BCCI muscles" in international cricket. Please stop endorsing australian cricketers. We should support cheaters.
One has to be ethical for the sake of sportmanship. Indians will do well if they continue the tour,overcome such unforeseen situations and play matches. Indian society is not familiar with Politics of Envy as practised elsewhere. Differences can be sorted out by unknown on totally unfamiliar territory, by those who hold grudge. Cricket is no more a sport. But it will be well, if people will ask why before saying yes to anyone, and take a stand in good conscience against it, if things they are told to is wrong.
The Australian desire to win is so strong that they will stoop to any level. The BCCI's quest to make money far outweighs their concern for the morale of the players. ICC is only as good as their members will want the organisation to be. Perhaps, BCCI could have at least made a pretense of withdrawing the Indian team till the time ICC provides a level playing field. Considering the circumstances, the Indian team should continue the tour and open the batting with the likes of R.P.Singh and Ishant Sharma. They should utilise the services of Wassim Jaffer and VVS Laxman as their stock bowlers. They should also tape their lips sealed, lest, even inadvertently, they say something that might offend the meek Australians. Australia will win and the BCCI would have avoided an international incident.
if bcci has guts, it must outright warn the icc tostop treating the members and their teams with those colonial rules. what is this refery is god ???and that , after we have so many tech tools to expose him ???Icc can not do without bcci. it will be too (revenue)costly to those merchants.you need to be like Modi.same for harbhajan's case. show proof or shut up.for umpires show proof and shut them up. so simple.
Unfortunately BCCI lacks aggression. We should not only cancel ban on Harbhajan but also try to make this cancel/ ban match from records. If required we should call our team back.BCCI president is a politician and I feel he not acting correctly on this issue. To protest this I have decided not to vote his party (Rashtrawadi Congress) ever in my life.
Like all sardarjis Bajji speaks the truth: Symonds IS a monkey - so are Ponty
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