Singh Slap Sree

So…If you plan to send your kid for Cricket Coaching Camp this Summer, Think Again. You may have to purchase additional equipments besides the normal Cricketing Gear. Yes, Cricket will never ever be the same again. Once a Gentleman's game and now it is no longer the game between the willow and the leather.

Never in my recent memory has the noble game felt so dirty. Harbhajan Singh's Slap on Sreesanth in the ongoing IPL, was a serious offence and the step taken by board to ban him for 11 matches is nothing but a Joke. The Punjab Offspinner, in my view is the most undisciplined Cricketer ever to have graced the field. Ideally he should have been banned for life. This is a serious crime. Slapping a fellow player deserve much more than 11 match ban.

I don't think Opinions about him is heavily polarised: Ask any opposition Captain, they will agree that, Bajji represents a disruptive element who has done more harm than good to the team. Having said that, Sreesanth is no saint either. From the evidence of what I have seen,the temperamental kerala speedster needs to be given strict sentence if another incident occurs in the near future.

One thing is for Sure. The embarrassment suffered by Harbhajan(And to lesser extent BCCI) was acute, and his reputation has been damaged, possibly beyond repair. Had a foreign player been involved in the same incident, it would have been far worse? Thank God, Otherwise Anil Kumble would have hung his head in Shame, for he once complained that Cricket was never played in the "Spirit of the Game".