 Worst-behaved cricketer Harbhajan unmasked in public: Ponting
10th May 2008 14:00 IST
Agencies
Still in disbelief over how Harbhajan Singh easily got away with the charges of racially abusing Andrew Symonds as a ''monkey'', Australian captain Ricky Ponting has urged the public to make its own judgment on the world's worst-behaved cricketer, after the turbanator's attack on Indian teammate S Sreesanth.
''The (slapping) incident was him dealing with a guy that he has probably played 20 Tests with,'' Ponting told ''Herald Sun'' in an interview.
''After this latest issue in India, I think people should be making their own judgments about Harbhajan. He has again done something wrong,'' he said.
Though, the temperamental off-spinner was banned from the ongoing Indian Premier League after he was found guilty of slapping Sreesanth, he is still facing a potential life ban from the BCCI's disciplinary committee.
Ponting, however, insisted that he wanted to look forward from here on, but the captain was still not able to digest the fact that how the BCCI had used its power to clear Harbhajan from racial charges.
Harbhajan was initially suspended for three Tests. But after India threatened to boycott its tour, he was cleared and received a 50 per cent match-fee fine on a lesser charge.
''It certainly wasn't the outcome that we expected,'' Ponting said.
''He ended up being fined 50 per cent of his match fee. As it is, I will cop a 20 or 30 per cent match-fee fine most one-day games because I am behind in the over rates.'' The right-handed batsman also admitted that the recent summer series against India was one of the toughest test of his career and added that even his boys were blamed for the controversies engulfed with that series.
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