Harbhajan Singh in Adelaide on Tuesday. (Reuters)

(Local timings)

8.00 am: Former Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Inderjit Singh Bindra convenes a meeting in his room at the Hyatt. Sachin Tendulkar, ODI captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh are among those present.

8.30-9.00 am: Calls between Bindra’s room and the BCCI’s HQ in Mumbai. Apparently, president Sharad Pawar also telephoned. Assurance again given on the Harbhajan issue.

9.50 am: Cricket Australia (CA) chairman Creagh ’Connor reaches the Hyatt hotel, looks hassled. Says “everything will be sorted out.”

9.55 am: ’Connor and Bindra meet on the hotel’s 21st floor, where the Regency Club is located. Both seen on the phone.

10.35 am: Most of the Test specialists, including Sourav Ganguly, leave for the airport.

10.45 am: Harbhajan and assistant manager Dr M.V. Sridhar prepare to leave for the Federal Court, which isn’t far from the Hyatt.

10.48 am: Sachin comes down to join Harbhajan and Dr Sridhar.

10.50 am: Sachin is called by Bindra and he heads for the Regency Club.

10.57 am: Sachin, Bindra and ’Connor emerge from the Regency Club and head for the elevator. All are smiling.

10.59 am: Bindra and ’Connor shake hands in the lobby and the CA chairman offers to drop Sachin at the Federal Court. Sachin accepts the offer.

11.00-11.05 am: Appeals commissioner Justice John Hansen begins proceedings in the fifth-floor courtroom.

11.05-11.10 am: Justice Hansen receives a “statement of facts” jointly signed by Sachin, Harbhajan, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden, Andrew Symonds and Michael Clarke. There’s a plea that the charge against Harbhajan be considered as a Level 2.8 offence of the Code of Conduct and not 3.3. The “statement of facts” is handed over by John Jordan, who is assisting Justice Hansen.

11.05-11.10 am: Four Australians — Ponting, Hayden, Symonds and Clarke — arrive and Justice Hansen starts by asking them to depose.

12 noon: Ponting leaves.

12 noon: Back at the Hyatt, the ODI specialists, who’d been in Melbourne after arriving from India, check-in.

12 noon to 1.00 pm: The remaining Australians and Sachin conclude their deposition before Justice Hansen.

1.00 to 2.00 pm: Lunch break.

2.05 to 2.35 pm: Harbhajan’s deposition.

2.40 to 4.40 pm: Justice Hansen wraps up proceedings and informs Harbhajan of his decision. The offie is relieved. So too the BCCI and CA.

6.35 pm: Test captain Anil Kumble and Dr Sridhar address a media conference at the Hyatt. Both read out statements.