Sydney, IANS The monkeygate between former Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds and Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh was in the news. It has been revealed that Symonds refused to play IPL due to the ‘Monkeygate’ scandal in 2008. Neil Maxwell, a former executive of the tournament’s franchise team Kings XI Punjab, has revealed this.
Former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi told me that I should persuade the players of Australia and New Zealand to play in the IPL and not in the opposing league ICL. In the case of Andrew Symonds, he did not go there at all. He did not want to go at all because he had a case with Harbhajan Singh.
“So I had to work with the Australia cricket team. I was working with all of them. I remember we were putting contracts in front of them and there was going to be a minimum amount that they were going to name the auction. So Andrew Symonds was going to get at least US $ 2 million and that was equivalent to a year-round deal with Australia cricket. “
“Andrew Symonds was the most expensive player sold in the tournament’s first auction. He was bought by Deccan Chargers with a bid of 10.2 crores. Charger’s team was captained by his teammate Adam Gilchrist.”
He agreed to refuse and he had a three-year deal for 1.2 million every year after 48 hours. You talk about the change. It was a change when he started the auction.”
What is monkey dispute
The Indian team toured Australia in 2008 where a dispute broke out between Andrew Symonds and Harbhajan Singh during a Test match played in Sydney. The matter was so spoiled that this match reached the verge of being canceled. He had an argument with Andrew Symonds when Harbhajan was batting with Sachin Tendulkar. In anger, he uttered a few abuses and captain Ricky Ponting complained to the referee about it.
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What Bhajji said was very similar to Monkey. After the end of the day’s play, the match referee accused Harbhajan of violating a Level Three offense. Because of this, he decided to ban three Test matches on him. The decision ignited the Indian team and the tour was about to leave India. After the intervention of the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the players agreed and completed the tour. The tour continued from
