Unbelievable! 'Pitches were ... ': Harbhajan Singh's big jibe at Virat Kohli

All it took was a one-hour-and-24-minute-long podcast to settee the alleged feud betwixt India's 2 large off-spinners – Harbhajan Singh and R Ashwin.

Harbhajan Singh played 103 Tests for India and picked up 417 wickets.

R Ashwin ended his illustrious vocation with 537 wickets successful 106 Tests.Until Ashwin surpassed Harbhajan's wicket tally successful 2021, the second was India’s astir palmy off-spinner.

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But implicit the years, determination was an unsaid hostility betwixt the two. Ashwin's emergence ended Harbhajan's Test career. However, connected Kutti Stories with Ash, the second settled each debate, saying helium was ne'er jealous of the Tamil Nadu spinner and clarified that helium lone utilized to criticise the pitches India played connected astatine location during the captaincy of Virat Kohli.“I conscionable privation to marque 1 constituent precise clear. When you came into the side, it instantly struck maine that this could beryllium the feline who volition beryllium playing for a agelong time,” admitted Harbhajan.“I saw you arsenic my competition. I was a elder who had picked up 400 wickets, and it did transverse my mind. I thought I would person to measurement up my game.

“But I consciousness everything happens for a reason. I played this game, I besides replaced idiosyncratic (Rajesh Chauhan). A spot successful the Indian cricket team is not permanent.

You cannot beryllium determination forever; idiosyncratic other volition travel and bash amended than you.“I spoke astir pitches. I basal by it adjacent now. There was truthful overmuch assistance from the wickets. I'm not saying this to marque you consciousness bad, but I consciousness that the pitches we played connected were different. It was evident — games were getting implicit successful 3 oregon 4 days.“But again, you person to vessel good to instrumentality wickets. I person bowled connected fertile turners wherever I failed to instrumentality a azygous wicket.“I wasn’t criticising pitches due to the fact that Ashwin was taking wickets. My occupation was with the benignant of wickets that were getting prepared,” helium added.Harbhajan besides revealed that successful 2015, during India’s circuit of Sri Lanka, helium realised Ashwin was a superior bowler.“

We played unneurotic successful Sri Lanka and you were bowling 10 times amended than me. There was zip successful your bowling. I was not astatine my best. You were the subordinate of the series.“I was struggling to rotation the ball. My skillset was not bully enough. There was a intelligence blockade — that my spouse is taking heaps of wickets and I americium not. I realised connected that circuit that I needed to up my skills to lucifer him.“People accidental I was jealous of you — not adjacent 1 percent of that is true. I was blessed that you carried guardant the off-spin legacy.”