Former India spinner Harbhajan Singh recently recalled his expulsion from the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru in 2000. He shared what actually went wrong that saw the player tear up the diet chart, which led to his removal as well. While talking about the NCA incident, Harbhajan Singh revealed that the food being given there did not match the specific diet chart that he was mandated to follow as well. The spinner said that it remained unchanged despite multiple complaints, which eventually led to him being angry.

“They removed me from there. It was not my mistake, I say this openly even today. It was our right. The food was not good there. Back then, the rules and regulations were such that we were told and taught a lot, and a chart was put up for the diet. But we were not getting food as per that diet. Despite complaining many times, the food did not improve. So one day I tore that chart. This was my only mistake, that I tore the chart,” the former India spinner said on cricketnextofficial.

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Harbhajan Singh was part of the first group of trainees who were sent to train at the National Cricket Academy way back in 2000 as well. He also claimed that there were certain people in the BCCI who could not tolerate anybody going against them as well.

“But maybe till someone does something like this, things don’t change. I was fighting for the rights. If I had not stood up, even today the same diet plan would have been followed. The plan changed, I was also removed, that is a different thing, but it was not my fault. There were some people in the BCCI who did not want someone who could stand up and question them,” Harbhajan Singh concluded.