The BCCI has slapped a life ban on pacer T P Sudhindra exposed in a TV sting operation. It also banned Shalabh Srivastava for five years and Mohnish Mishra, Amit Yadav and Abhinav Bali for a year each. The disciplinary committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India – BCCI yesterday announced the ban on the five players accused of match fixing in the sting operation during this year's Indian Premier League. Sudhindra of Deccan Chargers, Mishra of Pune Warriors, Amit Yadav and Shalabh Srivastava of Kings XI Punjab and a Delhi based cricketer Abhinav Bali who now represents Himachal Pradesh in domestic cricket were suspended in the aftermath of a sting operation. Cracking the whip on domestic cricketers caught in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, the Board said in a statement in Mumbai yesterday that the decipinary Committee held that the 28-year-old Sudhindra guilty of actually receiving a consideration to spot-fix in a domestic cricket match, and hence imposed exemplary penalty on him.