Indian turbanator Harbhajan Singh said that currently, Team India is in desperate need of fans all around the world. Despite their extraordinary home run across formats, India could not able to change the tag of the poor travelers and have already lagged by an unassailable 2-0 lead to South Africa in the ongoing Test series.

As the reports of PTI, Harbhajan said, “Everybody wants to improve. Let’s support the team at this hour. We have not played as well as we would have expected. Maybe next time. This is a great learning curve. Hopefully, we will bounce back strongly. They need to back each other.”

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The Indian cricket team welcomed by a pitch that was tailor-made for the seamers in the first Test at Newlands. While the visiting team’s pacers did set the ball rolling, the batsmen were swept away by the South African quartet of Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel, Vernon Philander and Kagiso Rabada. India went on to lost that match by 72 runs.

Despite the pitch at Centurion being more similar to the subcontinent conditions despite Virat Kohli’s 153 in India’s first innings, the visitors lost the match by 135 runs. The batsmen were found wanting against bounce and short deliveries outside off, something that has bothered the current lot of Indian cricketers. But Harbhajan said that it is better not to compare this team with earlier batches.

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When asked about the comparison, Bhajji said, “I don’t want to compare. They played in the different era. Every time we toured we had the best chance of winning. I don’t want to compare teams of the different era. Kohli with Dhoni or the former players like Rahul Dravid, VVS, and Sachin.”

Virat Kohli was a visibly frustrated figure in the post-match press conference. Talking about the same, Harbhajan said, “Captaincy comes with a lot of responsibility. He has done really well so far. This was his first real overseas challenge. I don’t call Sri Lanka a real overseas challenge with similar conditions (like India). Kohli has been set very high standards. I’m very happy to see him at the top of this game.”