Mukul blogs about the whole Harbhajan -Symonds controversy at Cricinfo Blogs. He looks at the big picture behind the controversy – changes in India and Indian cricket and changing attitudes towards Australia’s hegemony. Finally, he believes Bajji owes more to Tendulkar and Kumble than to the BCCI.
Left to itself, the Board would have hung Harbhajan up to dry (as it had sacrificed Bishan Bedi over the ‘Vaseline’ affair decades ago) and gone on with the tour: it was Tendulkar’s ultimatum that goosed them into action. Press criticism of the BCCI’s brinkmanship in chartering a plane to fly the team home from Adelaide if the appeal went against Harbhajan, could just as well be directed at the Indian team, because I’m certain that the old firm, Kumble & Tendulkar, had something to do with the arriving one-day specialists being quartered in Adelaide in solidarity with Harbhajan.
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