{"id":9598,"date":"2008-05-14T16:40:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T16:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/05\/14\/harbhajan-warned-by-indian-board\/"},"modified":"2008-05-14T16:40:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T16:40:27","slug":"harbhajan-warned-by-indian-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/14\/harbhajan-warned-by-indian-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Harbhajan warned by Indian board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>BCCI \u2018slaps\u2019 five ODI ban on spinner <\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"269\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/HarbhajanSinghban180x232.jpg\"\/>INDIAN spinner Harbhajan Singh has been warned about his future conduct after the Board of Cricket Control India banned him for five one-day internationals for slapping fellow countryman Sreesanth during an Indian Premier League match last month.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The ban rules the player out of India\u2019s tri-series in Bangladesh and the start of the Asian Cup in Pakistan. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The five ODI ban comes on top of the 11 match ban imposed by the IPL following the incident.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Harbhajan was told by the board he risked a possible life ban if he was brought up on charges of misconduct again. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Sreesanth was also sent a letter by the BCCI warning of his future conduct on the pitch. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The letter, written by board secretary Niranjan Shah, stated: &#8220;[If] you do not improve your behaviour, the board would be constrained to take appropriate decision.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A statement released to the press by the BCCI said Harbhajan was punished under Rule 3.2.1 of the BCCI regulations and handed out the maximum punishment under it. &#8220;Under this provision, the maximum punishment that can be meted out to a player is &#8216;a ban up to a maximum of 5 ODIs and \/ or 3 Test matches&#8217;,&#8221; a release from the board said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;The committee accordingly decided to ban Harbhajan Singh for five one-day internationals, starting today and further observed that any further instance of misconduct will invoke a life-ban.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The slapping incident is not the first time Harbhajan has invoked controversy.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Earlier this year he was cleared of using racially abusive language towards Australia\u2019s Andrew Symonds during India\u2019s tour of the country. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BCCI \u2018slaps\u2019 five ODI ban on spinner INDIAN spinner Harbhajan Singh has been warned about his future conduct after the Board of Cricket Control India banned him for five one-day internationals for slapping fellow countryman Sreesanth during an Indian Premier League match last month. &#13; The ban rules the player out of India\u2019s tri-series in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}