The bowler whose rotating balls had filled even a very strong team like Australia with fear. The spinner who also upset great batsman Ricky Ponting. The bowler who performed the feat of shaking off his first hat-trick in Test cricket for Bahrat. We are talking about spinner Harbhajan Singh (Harbhajan Singh Birthday), who is celebrating his 41st birthday today. Born in Jalandhar on July 3, 1980, Harbhajan Singh has represented Team India in 103 Tests, 236 ODIs and 28 T20is.
Harbhajan Singh has 417 Test wickets to his name, while he has taken 269 wickets in ODIs and has taken 25 wickets in T20 Internationals. The biggest achievement of Harbhajan Singh's career is that he has been part of the T20 World Cup in 2007 and the World Cup winning team in 2011. But did you know there was a time when Harbhajan Singh decided to quit cricket and become a truck driver? Harbhajan Singh, who made his debut for the Indian team in 1998, was dropped after a year and a half. Kumble was the star spinner of the Indian team at that time and it was in his absence that other spinners were getting a chance. Harbhajan Singh was disappointed at not getting a chance and lost his father in the meantime. Harbhajan Singh's father passed away in 2000 and the 21-year-old was then entrusted with the responsibility of running the family. Harbhajan Singh had to raise his mother and five sisters and neither had a job nor was he getting a chance in the team.
Harbhajan Singh decided to quit cricket and become a truck driver to run the family. They wanted to go to Canada and drive a truck. However, his sisters stopped Harbhajan Singh from doing so. He was advised by the family to work harder on cricket, and the whole world is familiar with what happened next. Harbhajan Singh took 28 wickets in 5 matches at an average of just 13.96 in the 2000 Ranji Trophy. Harbhajan Singh returned to Team India in 2001 after this performance and then the spinner never looked back.