Harbhajan denies hitting lensman by CricketArchive Staff Reporter

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Player:	Harbhajan Singh
Event:	Compaq Cup 2009

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DateLine: 11th September 2009

 

Harbhajan Singh denied that he hit a cameraman at the Bangalore International Airport.

 

Harbhajan jabbed at a cameraman yesterday after his camera hit him on the head while he was taking his luggage out from a car before entering the airport.

 

The off-spinner wrote in his blog that he had just pushed the object which hit his head and turban hard without knowing that it was a camera.

 

"I am facing the car, I have no clue what is behind me.

 

"The camera man is seen running towards me and the intensity and pace with which his camera clearly hits my head and it was not like just a touch, it hit me hard on my head and patka," Harbhajan wrote in his bigadda blog.

 

"It was just a push, not a slap"

 

"I am very particular of being touched and hit at my head or my patka. As a prompt reflex, not even knowing what hit my head I pushed the object, realising it after I pushed it that it was a camera. At no stage did I hit or slap the cameraman.

 

Neither will I ever do it," he added.

 

The senior Team India member also alleged that the cameraman had breached the security cover provided to him at the airport.

 

"I get down from the car, and wait to get my luggage, behind me is an armed CISF guard and officials to keep a security cover from media men and public.

 

"There was a clear security cover around me. The camera man breached that cover. The CISF guard and official is seen asking the camera guy to step back as they saw him being at fault of hitting my head with his camera and crossing the security cover," Harbhajan said.