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Unfit Bhajji, BCCI’s googly to India
Pradeep Magazine Adelaide, December 11 What was being promised as a new dawn may well turn out to be a nightmare for Indian cricket. In a shocking disclosure on the eve of the second Test against Australia here, it was revealed that off-spinner Harbhajan Singh's spinning finger was badly injured and he couldn't grip the ball despite taking pain-killing injections. He has now been ruled out for the entire series. What was shocking was not the injury but the manner in which it had been kept under wraps for the past year. And that despite being unfit, the bowler was chosen ahead of Murali Kartik, who reached here late on Thursday as a desperate, last-minute replacement. It is strange that despite the whole world being aware that Harbhajan was injured — and that he had been sent to Australia at the BCCI's expense when he was advised surgery immediately after the World Cup — he kept on playing. While you can understand that the team badly wanted Harbhajan to play against Australia, what you can’t fathom is how a bowler who admitted that his finger hurt whenever he bowled, was picked to play. No wonder, Harbhajan has not been his usual self of late and was mauled by the Aussies in the first Test. The Indian board needs to tell the world why the extent of the injury was kept hidden and why the team physio, Andrew Leipus, did not report on it. And if he did, why no action was taken. Even more shocking is that despite all the talk of professionalism in Indian cricket, the Indian media had to do some sleuthing to find out the exact position on Harbhajan. There is no media manager with the team and the cricket manager Shivlal Yadav — who was accused by former board secretary Jaywant Lele of being caught with prostitutes when he was a selector — shuns the press. By the way, the BCCI's director of communications is in Australia — not as the team's media manager but as a journalist. Source : Hindustan Times |
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