Harbhajan Singh

This here is an interesting fella. Harbhajan Singh has been in the centre of controversy for the past month or so after using a racist term against one of the Australian players. He has a hot temper and the Australian fans hate him dearly. He appealed the ruling against him which lifted the 3 match ban against him... thus allowing him to play in Adelaide. What this picture DOESN'T show is that after the game we were out in the parking lot (i.e.- parked on the grass by the river outside the Oval) and we were flipping through our Lonely Planet to figure out where to eat. As we started to drive away we spotted Harbhajan and a few of his teammates walking to their hotel. Keep in mind... in India these guys are SUPERSTARS! They are a team of 11 people who represent a country of over a billion people. They can't walk anywhere without being mobbed, and their team hotel is guarded like a fortress. But in Adelaide, they casually walked toward their hotel. Megan seized the opportunity, hopped out of the car, and asked for an autograph. Unfortunately we couldn't find a pen for the life of us (or something that wasn't uber-pro-Australia to sign). So here these superstars stood... waiting for a couple of Aussie fans in green shirts to dig through their piece of crap car for a pen and paper!!!! What a weird experience. He signed our program. Or maybe he just doodled in it. It's really hard to know. Who cares... we saw Harbhajan Singh, R.P. Singh, and Ishant Sharma (the 19 year old Indian phenom)!!!!