‘No jealousy, but the pitches were …’ Harbhajan Singh cleaned the air on the crack with R Ashwin, takes a jib in Virat Kohli. Cricket news
This was all an hour and 24-minute podcast to settle the alleged quarrel between two of India’s great off-spinners-Harbhajan Singh and R Ashwin.
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Harbhajan Singh played 103 Tests for India and took 417 wickets. R Ashwin ended his brilliant career with 537 wickets in 106 tests.By the time Ashwin crossed Harbhajan’s wicket Tally in 2021, he was later the most successful off-spinner in India.But in these years, there was an unheard tension between the two. Ashwin’s emergence ended Harbhajan’s test career. However, but Cut stories with ashThe latter resolved all the debate, saying that he never envited the Tamil Nadu spinner and clarified that he only criticized the pitches played at home during Virat Kohli’s captaincy.Harbhajan said, “I just want to make a point very clear. When you came in favor, he immediately hit me that it could be the man who must have been playing for a long time.”“I saw you as my competition. I was a senior who took 400 wickets, and it crossed my mind. I felt that I would have to increase my game.
“But I think everything happens for one reason. I played this game, I changed anyone (Rajesh Chauhan). One place in the Indian cricket team is not permanent. You cannot be forever; someone else will come and be better than you.“I talked about the pitches. I am still standing by it. Wickets helped a lot. I am not saying that you can feel bad, but I think the pitches we played were different. It was clear – the game was ending in three or four days.“But then, you have to bowl well to take wickets. I have bowled on rank turner where I failed to take a single wicket.He said, “I was not criticizing the pitches because Ashwin was taking wickets. My problem was with the kind of wickets that were getting ready,” he said.Harbhajan also revealed that in 2015, during India’s visit to Sri Lanka, he felt that Ashwin was a better bowler.,We played together in Sri Lanka and you were bowling ten times better than me. There was zip in your bowling. I was not in my best. You were a series player.“I was struggling to spin the ball. My skill was not quite good. There was a mental blockade – that my fellow is taking a pile of wickets and I am not. I realized on that tour that I needed my skills to match it.“People say that I was jealous of you-even one percent of it is not true. I was happy that you carried the off-spin heritage forward.”
