12 Controversial cricketers - The headline hoggers

6. Harbhajan Singh:

The recently married Turbanator of India who is India’s best off spinners has almost constantly been involved in a streak of controversies ever since the start of his career. In his maiden ODI, he got into a war of words with Ponting whom he had dismissed for a duck and subsequently was banned for a match for his brash conduct. Then in 2000 he was thrown out of the newly established National Cricket Academy for failing to comply with its objectives and the requirement of physical norms. Following this, he also lost his sponsorship with the Indian Airlines. In 2005, he was reprimanded for criticizing Greg Chappell by PCB and the BCCI. The biggest controversy which has marred his professional career is the Monkey gate scandal in which he was accused of calling Symonds, a monkey. This was followed by him calling Hayden a ‘big liar’ and Gilchrist ‘no saint.’ Well, his bad boy image was further aggravated in the 2010 IPL incident in which he slapped Sreesanth when he mocked him on losing. Thus, the Punjabi brat really had a doosra angle to his cricketing life where success was accompanied with aggressive stints which have always kept him in kept him under media scrutiny