What do you think of Harbhajan Singh?

[Craig]

As the poll states (it will apear a few minutes after this thread is posted ). The idea is to get an honest opinion of what people think of him. Remember forum rules and all that, so no trolling or baiting that will make this turn ugly.

 

[duffer]

The Cliff notes version: Good bowler, a bit up himself and immature.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Rather a head of the old dick, I think it's fair to say.

Aggressive, mendacious & (as a documentary made in NZ showed with his conduct with immigration officials) something of the **** when dealing with the public too.

 

[Jono]

Fun guy to watch bat.

 

[Craig]

Fun guy to watch bat.

So says the Indian supporter

 

[Evermind]

Absolute jackass.

 

[Craig]

Andy not voting for the obvious Simpsons quote as the last option? That has to be a first.

 

[archie mac]

He plays the game hard, and always gives 100%.

I don't think the Aussies like copping it back

 

[SJS]

If he was not so full of himself and was modest enough to take the advise of senior spinners like Prasanna (who is on record as saying that he has no intention to give any advise unless it is asked for), he had the potential to be an all time great. Today, he is reduced to being the second best off spinner of his own time and the gap between him and the number one is staggering.

Limited over cricket, bowling to contain rather than take wickets, listening to the unending media hype in India where he is treated like royalty has stunted the development of this chap who had so much potential ...

Its unfortunate that the limited success he has had has been enough for him to remain in the limelight and he has never realised that he could be a far greater bowler if only he knew he wasn't great..... its too late now I think.

 

[BoyBrumby]

He plays the game hard, and always gives 100%.

I don't think the Aussies like copping it back

Are you being ironic, arch?

I'm all for playing the game hard, but there's a line somewhere and Harbhajan is frequently over it.

 

[archie mac]

Are you being ironic, arch?

I'm all for playing the game hard, but there's a line somewhere and Harbhajan is frequently over it.

a little tongue in cheek

 

[Athlai]

Great irrelevant option, was extremely tempting.

 

[Uppercut]

Quite an annoying man. Hayden and Ponting seem pretty arrogant, but i imagine if you met them they'd be reasonably cordial. Harbs strikes me as someone who's not only arrogant but also not very nice. He's not someone i hate, but i suspect if i knew him he'd be someone that i'd try my best to keep away from whenever possible.

The Djibril Cisse of cricket. "Weed" was actually a very apt description.

His bowling is neither good enough nor bad enough to warrant discussion. Definitely test-class but not much more.

 

[jondavluc]

Well I'm an Andrew Symonds fanboy (As you can tell by my Avatar) I pretty sure everyone knows the answer to that.Still I think I will choose 4 .

 

[Manee]

I think he is a superb Test and ODI bowler. He keeps it extremely tight in ODI cricket and is highly underrated for the superb job he does in keeping it tight with an economy of 4.22 and yet, takes enough wickets, with a wicket every 46.7 balls. In Test cricket, he does a good job of bowling a great deal of overs per innings, keeping it tight or taking wickets, and in the process resting Ishant and Zaheer.

As a person, he is a ****, but he is a criminally underrated bowler.

 

[GIMH]

Far more arrogant than he should be. I remember when KP clean bowled him and he wouldn't walk, and said "**** you" to Pietersen. sure, many cricketers wanna say that to KP, but you've been bowled mate, move on

 

[OnDrive]

I met him once at an airport, and he came across more as a fratboy than 'weed'.
As for him being annoying to the opposition, I don't mind that one bit. It takes all kinds, and a team full of Rahul Dravid like people would make for very low TRP ratings.

 

[Manee]

Far more arrogant than he should be. I remember when KP clean bowled him and he wouldn't walk, and said "**** you" to Pietersen. sure, many cricketers wanna say that to KP, but you've been bowled mate, move on

Yeh, that was bizarre. He must have thought that the keeper took off the bails and then just stood around looking stupid and dumbfounded when he realised it was not the case.

 

[GIMH]

Yeah, he probably did think the keeper took the bails which would make his not wanting to walk look understandable, but when he told Pietersen FU then he just looked like a prize tool

 

[R_D]

Yeah, he probably did think the keeper took the bails which would make his not wanting to walk look understandable, but when he told Pietersen FU then he just looked like a prize tool

hahaha.. i remember that one... another example of Harbhjan making himself look like an idiot.

Arrogant ****... don't like him very much.