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I would have handled the incident much better : Dalmiya
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editor on 02 February, 2008 12:09:00
 
KOLKATS: Former BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya said on Friday he could have
handled the Harbhajan Singh incident much better, had he been at the helm of
affairs.
"This whole thing of Harbhajan Singh ended in a sort of controversy which it
should not have. People are talking about BCCI money and clout, which should not
have been the case. It should have been resolved much more amicably," he opined.
Dalmiya was speaking at a book launch 'Corridor of Uncertainty' by Boria
Majumder.
Dalmiya broke his silence after a self-imposed exile from cricket for over a
year.
However, when asked if he was staging a comeback, the ever elusive cricket
administrator said, "You will have to leave it on time and the sportslovers of
the country."
Talking about the World Cup held in West Indies, he said, "When the decision
was taken, I was with the ICC. We had heard of the pressure of World Cup hitting
Windies and therefore we had decided on principle as the parent body of cricket
to help Windies in whatever way deemed fit."
So it was not out of the blue that the ICC had suddenly decided to help
Windies.
Other distinguished members of the panel were artist Shuvaprasanna, former
Indian cricketer Devang Gandhi and former national selector Sambaran Banerjee.