NormHarbajhan Singh “I want grandchildren.”
Harbajhan Singh has told his lawyer he fears dying of old age before the ICC hear his case for racial abuse. At a packed Sydney media conference, he said, “I would very much like my children to speak on my behalf but I fear they might also be dead before this hearing, so I would like very much to change my will, and add a clause instructing my future grandchildren to represent me, should the case ever go ahead.” Harbajhan believes he will be reincarnated by then, but not necessarily as himself again in order to pass Murali’s record, or a famous Indian cricketer of the future, or as one of his own grandchildren in order to represent his former self as himself. “I’ve been a bit of a naughty monkey during this life, but nothing bad enough to see me come back as a ‘see no evil’ – ‘see nothing’ umpire from the Caribbean land of monkeys, or one of those unwanted Caribbean cheat monkey doll exports with dreadlocks.” Ricky Ponting – disguised as an Indian journalist complete with a twisted, yet slighty-wet towel from the team hotel on his head, the penthouse suite curtains draped around his torso, and a bootpolished face, in an obvious visual and costumed cultural sledge, taunted Harbajhan. “If you keep talking like that, aren’t you afraid you’ll come back as an ICC official?” Rather than lose his integrity, Harbajhan quickly produced a cricket ball, and threatened to bowl a vicious top-spinner at the pseudo- journalist. Ponting dismissed himself, and for the first time in his life, he walked.
