Off spinner Harbhajan Singh has reacted sharply to former Australian umpire Darrell Hair&rsquo;s comment that some of Asia&rsquo;s top spinners &mdash; Saqlain Mushtaq (Pakistan), Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka), and Harbhajan himself &mdash; are &lsquo;role models&rsquo; for &lsquo;chuckers&rsquo;.
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2014/dec/15bhajji.jpg" alt="" />
Hair told Sydney Morning Herald on Monday: &ldquo;I said it in the late &lsquo;90s that if something wasn&rsquo;t done about it you&rsquo;d have a generation of chuckers on your hands. They try to emulate Harbhajan Singh, Saqlain Mushtaq and Muralitharan and that&rsquo;s the problem. The crackdown should have happened on those players and the International Cricket Council (ICC) should have let it be known that it wasn&rsquo;t acceptable.&rdquo;
Harbhajan shot back yesterday: &ldquo;This is too much. We didn&rsquo;t cross the limit, but now Hair is crossing it.&rdquo; He added: &ldquo;Unka dimag theekane nahi (He seems to have gone mad).
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2014/dec/15saqlain.jpg" alt="" /> Saqlain Mushtaq
&ldquo;We were always within permissible limits. Muralitharan and me were cleared by the ICC more than once.
&ldquo;Why didn&rsquo;t Hair object to my bowling thereafter? Was it because he feared losing his job as an ICC umpire? We are not sons-in-law of the ICC.&rdquo;
Harbhajan was tested and cleared twice in 1999 in England and in 2005 in Perth. &ldquo;Present day bowlers are trying to bowl the doosra, which was invented by us. It doesn&rsquo;t necessarily mean they are bending their arms more than the permissible limit. Doosras can be bowled without bending the arms too much,&rdquo; he explained.
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2014/dec/15hair.jpg" alt="" /> Umpire Darrell Hair no balls Muttiah Muralitharan during the second Test between Australia and Sri Lanka at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on January 26, 1995. PIC/ Getty Images
&ldquo;The ICC has set a standard for bowlers and are using latest technology. Hair should stop challenging technology and better keep his mouth shut.&rdquo;
There is speculation in Australia that Hair, who resigned due to differences with the ICC, could be given an advisory role before next year&rsquo;s World Cup.

Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh lashes out at former ICC umpire for calling him a role model for chuckers alongwith Muttiah Muralitharan and Saqlain Mushtaq&nbsp;

Harbhajan Singh tells umpire Darrell Hair to 'shut up'

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