Ashwin interviews Harbhajan: Are you jealous of me?

[vvvslaxman]

10 hours ago, daryl1985 said:

Very weird clip, not sure either of them come across well.

 

For the record i think Harbhajan was a bit jealous of the praise Ashwin got.

 

In his latter years, Harbhajan’s bowling became pedestrian, not really sure why he declined so steeply. 
 

 

 

Harbhajan lost his mojo once his doosra was banned. Both Bhajji and Ashwin played few matches together. Ashwin significantly outperformed Bhajji

[Gollum]

9 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

Harbhajan lost his mojo once his doosra was banned. Both Bhajji and Ashwin played few matches together. Ashwin significantly outperformed Bhajji

Harbhajan was a blatant chucker. Had he been from any other country, wouldn't have played 20 tests. 

[Adamant]

On 7/21/2025 at 5:31 PM, Gollum said:

Thing is cowards like Harbhajan, Yuvraj only make insinuations on SM. They are (deliberately) strategically vague in what they say publicly, so that they can resort to plausible deniablity when cornered. If you can read between the lines you will see right through their posts, their digs, undermining of others etc. When questioned about the same face to face, they fumble around. 

 

Nepo does the same (cheating saga), Kramnik is at least direct in his accusations no matter how stupid and malicious they are. 

 

 

What did Yuvraj do?

[Adamant]

18 hours ago, Suhaan said:

One can say he was jealous but he certainly had a point when he meant Ashwin's more than 75-80% wickets were on severely doctored pitches

That is wrong too.

 

Are 75% of pitches in India severely doctored?

[Adamant]

18 hours ago, Suhaan said:

One can say he was jealous but he certainly had a point when he meant Ashwin's more than 75-80% wickets were on severely doctored pitches

That is wrong too.

 

Are 75% of pitches in India severely doctored?

[Adamant]

2 hours ago, Gollum said:

Harbhajan was a blatant chucker. Had he been from any other country, wouldn't have played 20 tests. 

He chucked in between but wasn’t a consistent chucker.

[Suhaan]

1 hour ago, Adamant said:

That is wrong too.

 

Are 75% of pitches in India severely doctored?

In last 4-5 years pitches have been severely doctored for spinners which eventually backfired 

 

Aren't venues repeated all over?

[maniac]

I saw the whole clip. Thought it was Avery mature conversation

 

also most articulate and sensible I have seen from Bhajji in a while.

[vvvslaxman]

6 hours ago, Adamant said:

He chucked in between but wasn’t a consistent chucker.

 

His doosra required chucking. It is very hard to bowl doosra without chucking. 

[maniac]

1 hour ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

His doosra required chucking. It is very hard to bowl doosra without chucking. 

A lot of bowlers in the 90s who had legal action had that extra “special” chucking delivery which got banned- Bhajji,Akthar, Afridi- all had normal actions except for their extra effort ball. They all were warned.

 

Murali neither Doosra nor any variation was questioned after the initial controversy

[Lord]

Watched full podcast with no cricket there.

 Really good one

 

 

[tapandrun]

Sports is competitive in nature, evey1 wants to be the best , one-up each other that is sports you live every day to win. Out perform others.

 

Jealousy creeps-in, that whats make you perform each day every day. You want to be the best in the club, best in district side, best in state and best in national side.

Kings have to go down for others to become the king, there is always 1 spot above the rank 1.

 

No1 likes to lose their spot specially In Ind cricket when it brings so many perks.  

 

Did bhajji think that Ash has taken his spot yes has he dropped hints about it yes, after having won a t20 wc and a odi wc in space of 4 years he was dropped from the including some others. was he bitter about it yes he was , but was that something done by Ash no, ash found himself in Ind side would he have said no do not pick me pick bhajji instead. And yes Ash thought bhajji thinks he is jealous of him.

 

both have been gentlemanly about it, there was no bust of anger. If buttons were pushed they may have dropped some hints but nothing more than that. Think that is Ok as said above there are so many perks of Ind cricketer no one would like to lose.

 

Same with yuvi and dhoni case no1 exactly knowns what went wrong , there are hints, is yuvi bitter with dhoni yes but thats it he never crossed the line dhoni never responds to this he has massive pr to take care of it.

 

Same with viru he was bitter with dhoni initially but now he has only good things to talk about him.

 

They all think there careers were shortened to bring Dhoni more in limelight, their wc wins were made to look like dhoni did everything.

Edited August 7, 2025 by tapandrun