NEW DELHI: Indian opener Navjot Singh Sidhu was on Sunday, August 25, given a 50day ban from international cricket for quitting this year’s tour of England. The right handed batsman will have to forfeit half the money he was due to earn from the tour, reports said after a disciplinary committee set up by the Board of Control for Cricket in India met at Mohali, near the nor them city of Chandigarh. Sidhu abandoned the Indian team after the third one day international against England at Old Trafford in Manchester on May 26. Before India began a three test series, citing us differences with capt a Mohammed Azharuddin. Azharuddin was sacked after the tour and replaced by Sachin Tendulkar, Sidhu was not considered for the Sahara Cup against Pakistan scheduled to be played in Canada next month, Sidhu, whose ban ends on October 14, will be free to play domestic cricket.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 4, 1996
