Critics have ripped him apart in recent times for his poor form but an undeterred Harbhajan Singh says having a clear conscience and performing the role assigned to him by the team is what matters the most.
India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Thursday came down hard on the pitch at the Sardar Patel stadium in Ahmedabad saying pitches must be prepared to suit the home bowlers.
Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh is excited that India are playing in Mumbai in the World Cup final on Saturday as the city has become his second home after basing there for three years as a Mumbai Indians player.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly is confident that the off-spinner's return for India's year-end tour of Australia for a four-Test series.
Bollywood kept its date with the Ambanis when folks arrived at the launch of Isha Ambani's Jio World Plaza, Mumbai's latest retail destination.
Also present: Ravi Shastri and Harbhajan Singh.
South African pace ace Dale Steyn might not turn out to be as big a threat for India in next month's highly-anticipated Test series, feels senior spinner Harbhajan Singh.
India might have been reeling at 136 for nine on the first day of the opening Test but spinner Harbhajan Singh said the match is still not over and they had enough ammunition to strike back.
After a lean spell, Harbhajan Singh gets his chance for retribution against a side that has always brought the best out of the bowler, says Bikash Mohapatra.
India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Sunday said he has never been approached by a bookie in his career and would slap anybody who dares to approach him to fix games.
The selectors finally lost patience with Virender Sehwag and dropped him from the Indian team for the last two Tests against Australia.
The beleaguered off-spinner is believed to have written to the BCCI, pleading for one final chance before taking disciplinary action against me over Sreesanth slapping incident.
BCCI has decided not to intervene in the Matthew Hayden-Harbhajan case and leave it on the Indian team management to decide the issue.
The off-spinner said the visitors are only interested in drawing the series in India.
The ace off-spinner said it is great to get five wickets on his return to Test cricket after injury.
Harbhajan Singh scored a dogged 54 and Zaheer Khan 35, as India rallied form 210-6 at tea to 313-8 by close on Day 3 of the first Test against Australia.
Cricket fraternity hails Gautam Gambhir appointment
After Sarfaraz Khan received his maiden Test call-up in the India squad, former off-spinner Harbhajan Singh heaped praise on the 26-year-old and said that he has worked very hard to be in this place.
Former captain Anil Kumble says pulling out of the 2007-08 Australia Tour following the controversial Sydney Test could have been an "acceptable" option but his side continued the series to set an example by winning the remaining matches under trying circumstances. The Sydney Test in January 2008 was marred by the infamous Monkeygate scandal where off-spinner Harbhajan Singh was handed a three-match ban by the ICC for allegedly racially abusing Andrew Symonds.
'I do feel there's a bit of punch left in me as a cricketer, but I would like to ... showcase that in club level cricket.'
Off spinner Harbhajan Singh, not picked in the playing eleven for the third Test match in progress against England at Kolkata, is hopeful of getting into the side after leading Punjab in the Ranji Trophy league game against Mumbai.
India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh wrote on his blog that he did not hit or slap a cameraman, as was reported in sections of the media on Wednesday.
A quickfire 85 not out by Harbhajan Singh helped India build on their first innings lead over New Zealand on the third day of the second Test at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Uppal on Sunday. After 134 overs, the home team had made 436 for nine, for an overall lead of 96 runs.
Harbhajan Singh claimed five wickets for 59 runs as India beat South Africa by an innings and 57 runs on a thrilling final day in the second Test to level the two-match series at 1-1 and remain the number one Test team in the world. Hashim Amla was the only South African batsman to provide some resistance. He was left unconquered after a stubborn knock of 123 from 394 deliveries, inclusive of 16 boundaries, his third hundred on a trot in three innings in the series.
The off spinner was guilty of violating the players' code of conduct during India's five-wicket loss to South Africa in the first ODI.
Mumbai Indians skipper Harbhajan Singh said they will need to play "better cricket" and felt the defending champions were 20 runs short after losing their opening match in the Champions League Twenty20 on Sunday.
"If we had taken Misbah's catch, maybe we could have taken around eight or nine wickets or even got them all out. But sometimes catches do get dropped and sometimes brilliant ones are also taken. No one does it deliberately," Harbhajan said at the end of the third day's play.
Off-colour Harbhajan Singh was dropped while young spinner Rahul Sharma and pacer Sreenath Aravind are the two new faces in India's depleted 15-member squad for the first two one-dayers in next month's ODI series against England.
Senior bowlers Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh are expected to return to the Indian squad for the first Test against Australia at Mohali from October 1, which will be picked by the Board of Control for Cricket in India selection committee in Chennai on Monday.
Senior off-spinner Harbhajan Singh was back in his element as he had match-haul of seven wickets (4/91 & 3/62) for Essex against Glamorgan in an English county game, which ended at the Castle Park Ground, in Colchester, on Saturday.
Sri Lanka captain will lead the Asian team in a three-match ODI series for the Afro-Asian Cup.
While Kapil scripted the best bowling figures of 5/43 against Australia at Trent Bridge in in 1983, Shami's fifer in Mohali on Friday, was the third-best bowling effort against the Aussies.
In a rerun of the 'Reclaim the Night' campaign, hundreds of women took to the streets in Kolkata and other parts of West Bengal on Sunday night, demanding justice for the alleged rape and murder of a doctor in the state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Ace off-spinner Harbhajan Singh termed Indian captain Virat Kohli as 'an intense cricketer' who thrives on.
Recuperating from a hamstring injury that kept him out of the Sri Lanka tour, off-spinner Harbhajan Singh said he is regaining full fitness and is looking forward to spearhead India's spin attack in New Zealand.
An injured Harbhajan Singh was on Sunday left out of the Indian team while Saurashtra all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja and Uttar Pradesh seamer Praveen Kumar were drafted in the 15-member squad for the upcoming cricket tour of Sri Lanka starting later this month.
