Mike Procter, former South African all-rounder and the ICC match referee, has questioned former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar’s role in the infamous Monkeygate controversy during the Sydney Test between India and Australia in January 2008. The controversy came to fore after Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds accused Indian cricket team spinner Harbhajan Singh of calling him monkey and saw Procter hand a three-match ban to the Indian spinner after a hearing. Procter has now published the full details of what went into that hearing in his recently-released autobiography ‘Caught in the Middle’. If he had said that (him hearing Harbhajan say ‘ma ki’ and not monkey) upfront, it would have been a whole different version. Procter also brought to light the role of the then manager of Indian cricket team, Chetan Chauhan in the fiasco.

Source: Hindustan Times January 21, 2018 12:33 UTC