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Showing posts with label cb series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cb series. Show all posts

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Harbhajan Singh interview in Delhi

Harbhajan Singh made plenty of news for various reasons in Australia. During the second Test at Sydney, the Indian off-spinner was accused by Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds of racially abusing him and banned for three Tests. The ICC (International Cricket Council) hearing later lifted the ban. Australian opener Matthew Hayden then called him an 'obnoxious little weed' on a Brisbane radio channel and then the Australian media accused him of making 'monkey gestures' towards the crowd during the CB series` first final in Sydney. After coming to Delhi on Thursday, Harbhajan said that he enjoyed the tour Down Under. He said and I quote “I thought only cricket was hard to play in Australia but there were other things as well which were more harder than cricket. Anyways I enjoyed my time there. The best way to do it is if you perform well on the ground and nothing can be more than that. Glad we have done that rather than saying things in the field. We have done it with the bat and ball”.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

CB Series win - A Testimony to Dhoni`s leadership

Mahendra Singh Dhoni led the Indian team to a historic win against Australia in the Commonwealth Bank Series at Gabba in Brisbane on Tuesday. Not many people gave much chance to the young Indian team against Ricky Ponting's team but in the end Dhoni`s youngsters mentored by ageing pro Sachin Tendulkar showed that Ponting`s men can be beaten.

"Of course it was very important because I believe that this is the building stage of my team. Youngsters are in and we have left a few seniors out of the side and there were a lot of questions asked about whether the team can do well in Australia. They say the conditions are tough here to topple the best team in the world," Dhoni said at the post-match press conference. Dhoni admitted that the team was under pressure at the beginning of the tri-series. The Indian skipper said that after the T20 game the pressure was on them especially in the batting department and the onus was on them to prove the critics wrong and they did exactly that. He also gave full credit to Sachin said that the good starts provided by him were critical to the team's success. The other players, too, were ecstatic after the win.

"Well we have won the series. This is what we wanted to do. We are really happy and it’s a great feeling. It is much relief now. Hopefully everything will settle down," Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, said.

"I was not bothered about that. I was here to play some good cricket and I have played throughout the summer we have played fantastic cricket. We are really happy and I am really proud," Harbhajan replied when asked if the controversies affected him.

"It's a great feeling. Winning in Australia for the first time is great and personal performance doesn’t matter. To be honest we play for the country and we try and win for the country," Gautam Gambhir, top scored in the series, said.