Veteran Spinner Harbhajan Singh announces retirement from all forms of cricket
All good things come to an end and today as I bid adieu to the game that has given me everything in life, I would like to thank everyone who made this 23-year-long journey beautiful and memorable.
My heartfelt thank you 🙏 Grateful .https://t.co/iD6WHU46MU— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) December 24, 2021
Harbhajan, 40, stops his career retaining played 103 Tests, 236 ODIs and 28 T20Is for India. He earned his debut for the aspect in 1998 in an ODI against Australia, and was the role of India’s successful WT20 team in 2007 as adequately as the side which hoisted the 2011 World Cup in India. Harbhajan grabbed up 7 wickets in the inaugural version of the T20 World Cup as he directed the spin-bowling raid, and was India’s primary spin-bowling choice in the 2011 ODI WC as adequately, where India overthrew Sri Lanka in the last to raise the award.
Harbhajan furthermore swivelled out in 236 ODIs, for 269 wickets at 33.35 – four of those arrived in Asia XI in the Afro-Asia Cup in 2007 – and 28 T20Is, for 25 wickets at 25.32. His across-the-board pull earns him the second-most victorious bowler in international cricket for India, the record of 707 hits only behind Anil Kumble’s 953.
We all recall the popular Kolkata Test of 2001 because of that iconic alliance between VVS Laxman & Rahul Dravid but the underrated hero of that game was harbhajan Singh whose stunning moment of 6/73 in 2nd innings assisted us to ensure an outstanding Test victory.