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By now everybody knows the outcome of Harbhajan Singh’s interrogation at the Maurya Sheraton New Delhi. However, only I have the ball-by-ball account of the entire meeting.

12:07 pm: Match referee Farokh Engineer enters the Maurya and almost by reflex heads straight to the Maurya’s famous dining hall know as Clinton’s Bokhara.

12:43: After a lot of begging and pleading from the IPL officals, six stern security men escort Engineer out of the Bokhara unfed and kicking and screaming.

12:45: And 30 seconds later Harbhajan Singh enters the hotel wearing his favourite “I love Mother Teresa” T shirt.

12:57: Engineer gives the security cordon a slip and ducts into the 24-hour coffee shop, and immediately tucks into the buffet.

1:01: Sreesanth enters the hotel wearing a helmet with visor.

1:10: Engineer is handcuffed by hotel security and dragged out of the buffet unceremoniously with traces of spagghetti boulagnese adding colour to his white shirt.

1:21: The three meet in the lobby, Engineer suggests they have the meeting in the Oriental restaurant that he’s so much in love over the past three and a half minutes.

1:26 Harbhajan, Shree and Engineer sit at a table. Bhaji begins to tell his sde of the story but is waived aside by one stern word from Engineer. It’s the word “soup”.

Now Shree begins by the words “let’s have starters”. Shree and Bhaji are dying to get to the heart of the entire incident. Engineer by way of practising give’s more credence to the heart of the menu.

Bhaji says, “I’m sorry”. Sree says, “let’s move on” and Engineer says, “one plate ginger fried prawns, one egg fried rice, two peking ducks, one lhasa noodles in honey fried sauce, two gin chickens four fooyongs and seven plates of stir fried vegetables. At the end of the meeting Bhaji and Shree hug and are only broken up by a stern warning from Engineer who sternly enquires “Dessert”?