India Twenty20 International Cricketers

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 78. Chapters: Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Irfan Pathan, Virender Sehwag, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, Murali Kartik, Yuvraj Singh, Sreesanth, Rohit Sharma, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Ishant Sharma, Virat Kohli, Joginder Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Murali Vijay, Piyush Chawla, R. P. Singh, Ashish Nehra, Ajit Agarkar, Pragyan Ojha, Praveen Kumar, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Naman Ojha, Amit Mishra, Sudeep Tyagi, Vinay Kumar, Robin Uthappa, Ashok Dinda, List of India Twenty20 International cricketers, Dinesh Mongia. Excerpt: Harbhajan Singh Plaha (Punjabi: ), born 3 July 1980 in Jalandhar, Punjab, India), commonly known as Harbhajan Singh, is an Indian cricketer. A specialist bowler, he has the second-highest number of Test wickets by an off spinner, behind Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan. Harbhajan made his Test and One Day International (ODI) debuts in early 1998. His career was initially affected by investigations into the legality of his bowling action, as well as several disciplinary incidents. However in 2001, with leading leg spinner Anil Kumble injured, Harbhajan's career was resuscitated after Indian captain Sourav Ganguly called for his inclusion in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy team. In that series victory over Australia, Harbhajan established himself as the team's leading spinner by taking 32 wickets, becoming the first Indian bowler to take a hat trick in Test cricket. A finger injury in mid-2003 sidelined him for much of the following year, allowing Kumble to regain his position as the first choice spinner. Harbhajan reclaimed a regular position in the team upon his return in late 2004, but often found himself watching from the sidelines in Test matches outside the Indian subcontinent with typically only one spinner, Kumble, being used. Throughout 2006 and into early 2007, Harbhajan's...