Former India spinner Harbhajan feels that there are big divisions in the Indian dressing room. Speaking on his YouTube channel, Harbhajan Singh said that the news that has come out of the Indian team over the last 6-8 months indicated that the dressing room had crashed.
Multiple news outlets, including India Today quoted sources about what had been going on behind the scene during India’s torrid tour of Australia. Reports had claimed that the Indian team was divided into camps with a senior player projecting himself as the Mr. Fixit in the team, who could captain on an interim basis in case Rohit Sharma was going to get sacked.
The reports gained flight after Rohit Sharma was ‘rested’ from the Indian team in the final Test match at Sydney. The Indian captain held an unprecedented press conference on Day 2 of the match, stating that he had dropped himself.
Things did not stop there. After the Indian team returned from the tour of Australia, reports suggested that the BCCI would take strict steps to discipline the Indian team.
Reacting to the reports, Harbhajan said that there was an incredible amount of drama taking place behind the scenes. The former spinner slammed the players and the Indian team management, asking them how could so many reports emerge over the last two months.
Harbhajan suggested that every house fights, but they should be kept inside the home.
“Solve it between yourselves. Why is there so much drama. Every house has fights but that should not come out. In the last 6-8 months, we have heard so many things. If Ajit Agarkar today says that the leaks were not from Sarfaraz but from the coach, what will happen then? There is no point in blame game,” Harbhajan said on his YouTube channel.
The spinner likened the current Indian dressing room to the one during Greg Chappell’s era and said that he had seen this infighting before.
“Gautam Gambhir is new. He has to get to know the players. The players have to know him. Without chemistry it will not work. I have seen this before. In the 2006-08 era when Greg Chappell was the coach, I saw the entire dressing room crash down. The reason was that players started to play blame game. How did the media get to know so many things?” Harbhajan said.
