Legendary Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh thanked legendary Indian player Rahul Dravid in a massive revelation from the 2002 NatWest Trophy final. Team India had registered a historic win by beating hosts England at the iconic Lord’s. After a famous win in the tense final, then Indian captain Sourav Ganguly celebrated that win by taking his shirt off and waving it aggressively from the Lord’s balcony. Harbhajan Singh revealed that he was going to do the same, but was stopped by Rahul Dravid as well. However, looking back, he hilariously thanked Dravid for stopping him.
“He stopped me. Rahul Dravid did not let me take off my shirt. If I had done that too, the photo would have gone viral like Ganguly. I was next in line to remove the shirt and was going to do what our captain did. Thank god it was Rahul Dravid. If Yuvraj was next to me, he would have removed my shirt himself. I am very thankful to Dravid for this,” he said in his recent appearance on an episode of ‘Cheeky Singles’.
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In the same episode, veteran Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin also opened up on his altercation with legendary England pacer James Anderson. During the fourth Test of the 2016 series at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, Virat Kohli scored a stunning double hundred. However, Anderson commented in a press conference that Kohli’s technical flaws were ‘masked’ due to flat wickets and favourable conditions in India as well.
“I’m not sure he’s changed. I just think any technical deficiencies he’s got aren’t in play out here. The wickets just take that out of the equation. There’s not that pace in the wicket to get the nicks, like we did against him in England with a bit more movement. When that’s not there, he’s very much suited to playing in these conditions,” he had said.
“If something comes at us, we will double it and give it back. We pulled Anderson out once and got him to bat from the boundary rope. We were playing in Mumbai. They batted first and scored 450-something. We were 330/6, and Virat scored a double hundred from there and took it to 600. He went in the press conference and said this is India, let him come to England. How much does it take to credit someone? I felt it was below the line. The next day, when they were coming to bat, a few of us went and escorted him from the boundary line. He should not have spoken like that,” he concluded.
