India have suspended their tour of Australia until their appeal against the three-match ban handed to spinner Harbhajan Singh is heard. The Board of Control for Cricket in India has instructed the touring party to stay in Sydney rather than move on to Canberra for their next fixture.Feelings have become acrimonious after Harbhajan was banned for allegedly making a racist remark during the second Test defeat in Sydney.
Harbhajan was found guilty by match referee Mike Procter of breaching the players' code of conduct.
It was claimed that the spinner had called Australian Andrew Symonds a "monkey" and Procter said he was satisfied that "he meant it to offend on the basis of Symonds' race or ethnic origin."
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