Former Indian off-spinner further added that a cricketer always wants to play a farewell game but sometimes luck doesn’t favour it.
Harbhajan Singh has said that some BCCI officials wanted to remove him from the team, he added that if he had got some support from the management he would have bagged 100-150 more wickets in his career.
To a certain extent, there were some BCCI officials who were involved in this [his exit from the team] and they didn’t want me and the captain [MS Dhoni] may have supported that but a captain can never be above the BCCI.
The BCCI officials have always been bigger than the captain, coach, or the team.”
“I was 31 when I took 400 wickets and if I would have played another 4-5 years, keeping in mind the kind of standards I had set for myself, I can tell you that I would have taken another 100-150 wickets or more,” he added. The veteran spinner also took a sly dig at MS Dhoni.
The veteran made no bones in admitting that the former India skipper MS Dhoni received better backing from the board than any other player.
'Yes. MS Dhoni was the captain then but I think this thing was above Dhoni’s head. To a certain extent, there were some BCCI officials who were involved in this and they didn’t want me and the captain may have supported that but a captain can never be above the BCCI. The BCCI officials have always been bigger than the captain, coach or the team.
“Dhoni had better backing than other players and if the rest of the players would have got the same kind of backing, then they would have played as well. It wasn’t as if the rest of the players forgot to swing a bat or didn’t know how to bowl all of a sudden,” he further added.
The Sourav Ganguly-Virat Kohli saga has taken over the news arena lately and Harbhajan feels the situation could have been handled in a better manner. He also heaped praise on Ganguly for backing him for the Test series against Australia, where the tweaker became registered 32 wickets in three Tests including the maiden Test hat-trick for India.