After 23 years of playing cricket, Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh announced his retirement.  The spinner received a plethora of messages and posts from all over the world, where he was congratulated on having a brilliant and successful career. Harbhajan took 417 wickets in 103 Tests and 269 wickets in 236 ODIs. The spinner also went on to pick up 25 wickets in 28 T20Is for India. After his retirement announcement he spoke to the media and shared the reason for his retirement. He said, “You don’t get 400 wickets by bowling poorly. Even though I was a great bowler, selectors never selected me for the team.  I tried getting in touch with people, including selectors, but never got any response. I did not get proper support from the BCCI this is why I am retiring now.” People were very shocked by Harbhajan’s statements. 

Also Harbhajan had met Punjab Provincial Congress Committee (PPCC) chief [BOx 03 Navjot Singh Sidhu 10 days ago. And exactly 10 days later Harbhajan quit Cricket. While sources close to Harbhajan said he was preparing to coach an IPL team and for this he needed to retire from cricket. At the same time, sources in Congress said Harbhajan was “very much inclined” towards politics and may jump into it. 

We will have to wait and watch what Harbhajan does in the future.

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