Investigation over, Nanavati to submit report later

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Ahmedabad, May 9:: the Mumbai Indians in the absence of an injured Sachin Tendulkar when the incident took place, would sit out for a minimum of 11 IPL matches and a maximum of 13 matches in case his team reached the final.

The 27-year-old player, who has a notorious reputation for on-field skirmishes, was handed down the punishment under which he would forfeit match fees from the third match onwards by Engineer after a two-hour hearing.

Sreesanth, who was at the receiving end of Harbhajan's temper, was also warned against aggressive on-field behaviour and told that his conduct would be taken seriously.

Nanavati was appointed Commissioner on April 28 to go into the fracas and was given 15 days time to submit his report to BCCI President Sharad Pawar.

Nanavati will submit his report to Pawar on Monday and the Disciplinary Committee will then take a final decision. Apart from Pawar, President-elect Shashank Manohar and vice-president Chirayu Amin are the other members of the committee.

Mumbai Indians manager Lalchand Rajput was fined 50 per cent of the match fee for not stopping the off-spinner's attack on Sreesanth playing for Kings XI Punjab.

Harbhajan, who was bought by Mukesh Ambani's franchise for a whopping Rs 3.40 crore during the landmark auction, was found guilty of breaching level 4.2 offence under the ICC Code of Conduct that relates to physically assaulting a fellow player, match official or spectators.