On Sunday, the veteran Indian spinner, Harbhajan Singh expressed that he went through the lowest point in his career during the 50-over World Cup in 2007 as the team didn’t even manage to pass the league stage of the tournament. Harbhajan also criticized Greg Chappell for creating a divide among the Indian cricketers. He revealed the same during an interaction with former Indian opener, Aakash Chopra and it was then that the “Turbanator” talked about the lowest point of his career.
During a chat on the official YouTube channel of Aakash Chopra, Harbhajan said, “When Greg Chappell came as the coach of our side, he disrupted the entire team, no one knows what was his motive when he came to coach us, he used to do whatever he wanted. 2007 50-over World Cup has to be the lowest point of my career, I thought we are going through such a difficult time, Greg Chappell was trying to divide and lead, he used to do such things.”
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Harbhajan also said that the 2007 World Cup side was a solid team, but they suffered an early exit as the mood in the camp was not right.
Bhajji explained, “We had a solid team for the 2007 50-over World Cup, we were just not able to perform as no one was in the right frame of mind, no one trusted each other, when the team is not happy then the results do not go your way. We lost to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, they were not that big teams, it was not like we lost to Australia.”
In the 2007 50-over World Cup, India exited the tournament after losing to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in the group stages. Greg Chappell was selected as the Indian coach after John Wright did not renew his contract at the end of the 2004/05 international season. After Chappell’s appointment, controversies hampered Indian cricket as Sourav Ganguly was first omitted from the side and was removed as the skipper of the side as well.
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After the 2007 World Cup debacle, Chappell resigned as the coach of the Indian side. Ever since his resignation, many players have said that Chappell was the worst thing to happen to Indian cricket. Chappell has often been criticized for trying to divide the team and wanting to run the team in his own different manner.
