India Maharajas also include the likes of Harbhajan Singh, Irfan Pathan and Yusuf Pathan. The second team called the Asia Lions will have former Pakistan and Sri Lankan legends while the third team will see players from rest of the world.
Harbhajan Singh announced his retirement on December 24 ending an 18-year long career. He finished with 711 wickets across formats from 367 international games for India.
Recently, the chief of Congress' Punjab unit Navjot Singh Sidhu posted a picture with Harbhajan Singh on Twitter and captioned it a 'picture loaded with possibilities'. This led to speculation of him joining the party.
Harbhajan Singh, who won two World Cups and took more than 700 international wickets, retired from cricket on December 24, 2021. Here are statistical highlights of Harbhajan Singh's career.
During his 18-year stint in international cricket, Harbhajan Singh won two World Cups. He took 417 wickets in 103 Tests, 269 wickets in 236 ODIs and 25 scalps in 28 T20Is.
With more than 700 international wickets, most of them not exactly coming on rank turners, Harbhajan Singh's name will always figure among cricketing elites. And with two limited-overs world titles, it's an enviable CV for any cricketer.
The 41-year-old from Punjab took 417 wickets in 103 Tests, 269 wickets in 236 ODIs and 25 scalps in 28 T20Is in his illustrious career, which began in 1998.
Harbhajan Singh last played for India in March 2016 in a T20I against the UAE at Dhaka. The off-spinner made his India debut in an ODI against New Zealand at Sharjah in 1998.
Netizens are speculating about the veteran off-spinner Harbhajan Singh joining Congress ahead of the 2022 Punjab Assembly Election as Punjab Congress Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu posted a picture with him.
Ravichandran Ashwin (419) became India’s third-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket when he got past Harbhajan Singh (417). Former India captains Anil Kumble and Kapil Dev are first and second with 619 and 434 wickets, respectively.
Pakistan fans targetted Rashid Khan after India defeated Afghanistan by 66 runs in T20 World Cup. The win upped India's net run rate and chances of qualifying for the semis.
Coming into the T20 World Cup 2021 as title-favourites, India have lost both their matches in the competition and are staring at an early exit.
Although the India vs Pakistan cricketing battles have always been intense on the field, but off-field, players of both nations share a great camaraderie among themselves.
Harbhajan has more than 700-plus international wickets across formats while Srinath is currently an ICC Elite Panel Match Referee.
Harbhajan couldn't attend the convocation in person as he is currently in a bio-secure environment as part of the Kolkata Knight Riders' campaign in IPL 2021.
Sports icons like VVS Laxman, Harbhajan Singh, Yogeshwar Dutt and others pass on their wishes to the nation on 75th Independence Day
Actor Geeta Basra and her cricketer husband Harbhajan Singh have named the baby boy Jovan Veer Singh Plaha
Geeta and Harbhajan, who got married in the 2015, also have a four-year-old daughter
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.