“No Player is Bigger Than the Game” – Harbhajan Singh Urges BCCI to End Superstar Culture in Player Selection

Former Indian cricketer and commentator Harbhajan Singh has requested the BCCI and Indian selectors to end the superstar culture and instead, players should be selected based on their performance. 

Furthermore, he also stated that all players involved in the Indian team should take part in some form of the county or domestic cricket in order to be well-prepared for overseas tours. 

"It should be based on performance only, whether it is Virat, Rohit or anyone. No player is bigger than the game, even if he thinks in his mind that he is a big superstar. If we have to take Indian cricket forward, we have to ask tough questions,” Bhajji told on his YouTube channel.

"I am not saying that you should drop them but if you take them on tour, they (struggling players) should play some form of cricket whether county cricket or something before England tour," he added.

Moreover, the former Indian spinner also asked the Ajit Agarkar-led Indian selection committee to wake up and make decisions that can take Indian cricket forward with great benefits.

"This will be a challenge for the selectors, but it's time for selectors to wake up and take some action. I don't say that any player be dropped, and unnecessarily start chopping and dropping but at least there should be a procedure as to who will get how many chances and for how long, because in India there is a long queue of talents,” Harbhajan Singh stated.

Even a young batter will be able to match Kohli’s performance, feels Harbhajan Singh

Later in the video, Bhajji stressed Virat Kohli’s struggles in 2024. Regrettably, Kohli managed to score only 190 runs from nine innings in the concluded BGT series. Bhajji felt that even a youngster can match Kohli’s performance if given an opportunity. 

"Virat has played 11 Tests in 2024 and scored 440 runs. The average is 23.15, with one hundred and one fifty. Such an average may be unheard of because he is a very big name. This stat is obviously very low. When I saw it, it was a shocking stat for me too,” he asserted.

"If you give a youngster an opportunity, I feel he will also be able to do this much (match the stats of Kohli),” Bhajji concluded. 

Watch the full video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoRZGJpe-UY 

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