Former Pakistani off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq feels sad after watching how senior Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has been treated by the team Management.
He terms Ravichandran Ashwin as a world class bowler but he still bats for Harbhajan, who was not given a chance in the past few T20 internationals.
“I am afraid that Indian Cricket board and team management’s treatment to Harbhajan has not been great. He was a world class bowler and is still a world class bowler. The emergence of Ashwin doesn’t mean that you drop Harbhajan or put him under tremendous pressure.
The pressure that you have created on him, you have already negated his past achievements. . At the end, players are only human with same kind of feelings and emotions. A good performance is emotion driven. If you are in a good space mentally, your graph will go up and vice versa,” Saqlain told during an interview.
“What logically should have been done is that when his graph was going down, one should have given him a short break and brought him back. He should have been the first choice spinner supported by Ashwin. Instead you put self doubts in him and now made him the third or fourth choice spinner in the side,” said the 39-year-old cricketer who has 208 Test and 288 ODI wickets to his name.