Hello everybody and welcome to this special.
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Powerplay episode of the Isolation Premier League.
I have Harbhajan Singh with me.
Hello 'Bhajju' (Harbhajan Singh), how are you? I'm good.
How are you? How is this lockdown period going for you? Which household chores are you doing? Where have you gotten better? I think I've become good at cooking.
Apart from that everything is normal like before.
I never used to go out much, maybe once a month.
But right now there is this fear of uncertainty.
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Of what might happen if we step outside.
So, I've restricted myself to stay at home.
I've gone out a couple of times just to get essentials.
I've learned to cook vegetables.
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Potatoes, eggplant, carrots and peas.
You name it and I'll cook it for you.
Wow! I had seen a photo on Instagram in which you.
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Were holding a bowl of Gobi-Aloo (vegetable).
And it was looking quite delicious.
Last time when I had come for your show.
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'Breakfast with Champions', I couldn't cook this well.
I've never seen anyone break an egg like this before.
It’s as if you are playing carrom.
Just wait and watch my magic.
Ask the chef.
Chef, does this look good to you? Yes.
Please record all of their lying faces.
Now say, how does this look? Good? Now if you invite me back to your show then.
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I will not only cook for you but for your entire crew.
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And everyone will love it.
So next time instead of 'Breakfast with Champions'.
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We'll have a 'Buffet with Champions' because.
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Yeah right.
There will be a lot of different types of dishes.
Absolutely.
But I only cook vegetarian.
I don't cook non-vegetarian food.
But you are not vegetarian, otherwise.
No.
I've become a vegetarian for good 4 to 5 months now.
And it makes me feel light and I like it.
You are bound to feel light because.
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Of your light-hearted nature.
Yeah, I am light but the atmosphere around is heavy.
And in this heavy atmosphere.
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It is important to feel light.
Or else the heavy atmosphere will dominate you.
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And this lockdown will feel like a jail.
We are very fortunate to have a roof above our head.
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And have food in our kitchen.
There are many underprivileged people.
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Who don't have these basic necessities.
So to help them as much as we can.
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Is very important at such times.
Yes, absolutely.
Some of my friends are contributing and.
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They’ve inspired me as well.
So we have decided to provide basic food and supplies.
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To 5, 000 families throughout the lockdown period.
You and I have advertised a lot about humanity.
Now I have a question for you.
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And I'll give you four options for that.
Who amongst these four friends of ours.
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Is waiting eagerly for this lockdown to end.
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So that he can go out? And your options are.
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Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh and Ajit Agarkar.
I think Yuvraj Singh.
Here if you use the 50:50 lifeline we can.
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Easily remove the two of them.
Ajit Agarkar and Zaheer Khan.
Zaheer Khan will be the happiest.
He would be sitting on the same chair in his house.
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For 30 days straight.
If you remind him it’s been 30 days, you.
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Can move within the house.
He would get up and sit on the adjacent chair.
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For the next 30 days.
Problem is with Yuvraj Singh.
He loves travelling and catching.
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One plane after another.
So he might be a little frustrated.
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About when this lockdown will end.
Yuvraj Singh is meant to fly.
He's not made to be on land.
Correct.
Alright, so at this point in time.
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Who will be cooking the most? I'll change the options to.
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Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Nehra and Sachin Tendulkar.
It’s possible that amongst everyone, I'm the one who cooks the most.
Ok But if anyone can give me a competition.
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Then it has to be Paaji (Sachin Tendulkar).
I think he might be cooking a little bit.
There is this one thing about him which.
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You would've noticed more than I have, obviously.
Whatever he does, he has a need to be the best.
Absolutely.
Even if he has to arrange evening snacks.
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He'll pick the best chips, arrange everything neatly, Who is going to sit where? He has that knack for perfection in everything.
He is Mr.
Perfect.
He wants everything to be as perfect as his batting.
He used to arrange his gloves at one place, Then bats, then pads, even the grip should be perfect.
So I feel he cooks in a similar manner as well.
You can't put salt before putting the spices.
You will have to follow that particular sequence.
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And that is Sachin Tendulkar for you, Mr.
Perfect.
We also know that he did a photoshoot with you.
Where you were the model and.
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Whom did you hire to click your pictures? I hired the world's most expensive photographer.
Also, we didn't do this photoshoot in India.
We went to this beautiful location with the.
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Sea on one side and mountains on the other.
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And a huge farmhouse in the middle.
I even had my bodyguards, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, and Gaurav Kapur with me.
So that no one can disturb our photoshoot.
Photographer was, of course, Sachin Tendulkar.
And the director was Zaheer Khan and.
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What a director he turned out to be.
All he did was just – Wow! Wow! Even doing this much is enough for him.
It's more than enough.
So, I want to tell you that the idea for this.
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Isolation Premier League originated when.
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You came on 'Breakfast with Champions'.
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And we asked you 6 questions about your career.
So now we've made that into a show.
And since the IPL is not happening, We thought we'll create our own IPL.
And at the same time, it'll be.
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Fun to hear those stories from.
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Your great days of achievements.
So usually it’s a twenty question game but today.
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We'll only play the powerplay with you.
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Which is of 6 questions, alright? Yeah.
But before that, in the previous episode of.
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Isolation Premier League Yuvraj Singh told us to.
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Ask you, “Who was the first person in your career, To name you Undertaker?” So what is the story behind.
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Undertaker and overtaker? I can't share that on the show.
If he wants to be a whistleblower then, Even I’ll reveal his secrets.
And then we'll end up revealing.
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Each other's secret one by one.
I can see that Bhajji (Harbhajan Singh) and.
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Yuvi (Yuvraj Singh) have made me their messenger.
Both of you are giving me.
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Messages to pass on to the other So, let us begin the powerplay.
I'll ask you six questions about you.
And for each correct answer, you'll get six runs.
Here is your first question.
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Name the five players to have.
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Won the IPL with both CSK & MI.
The first one is you.
There is Ambati Raydu and Karn Sharma Karn Sharma.
Raydu.
Wait let me think.
Should I give you a clue? Yes.
What is this, a fish? No.
Is he short? Yes.
Our 'Nikka' (younger brother).
Oh, 'Nikka', Parthiv Patel? Because he has experienced playing.
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For different IPL teams.
True.
Yet he looks like a kid.
Whenever he shaves, he looks.
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As if he's going to play in U-16 again.
And the fifth player is Tim Southee.
I only wanted two names.
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But you gave me three instead.
So, I am giving you six runs for this.
Now, this is a very easy question.
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Name the two Indians to play for the.
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Same IPL team for the first 10 Years? One was you, with Mumbai Indians.
Who was the other Indian player? Virat Kohli.
Done.
Very easy.
Next question I'll ask from 'Breakfast with Champions'.
It is from a story that you told.
So you said, 'During a match you.
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Referred to Yuvraj Singh as 'Buggi'.
You said, 'Oh Buggi.
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Buggi.
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Buggi, throw the ball here'.
So, which opposition batsman asked you, 'This is the first time I have seen such a huge Buggi’? Yes.
This is correct.
It was Yousuf Youhana from Pakistan.
Absolutely right.
Well done.
And this also confirms that the story you told us.
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Three years ago wasn't a made-up story.
People only remember the truth and.
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They forget the lies they've told.
Correct.
Now, this is an embarrassing question.
Are you ready? Embarrassing? Who dismissed you with the only ball.
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He ever bowled in T20 Cricket? Adam Gilchrist.
I was overconfident.
When I saw the size of the boundaries, I thought I'll hit every ball out of the park.
But that didn't happen and.
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I was caught at long-on.
I don't think anything.
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Can be more embarrassing than this.
I got out to a bowler who probably.
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Might not have bowled in the nets.
I made him happy.
I've taken his wickets a lot of times in test cricket, So I thought I'll make him happy.
You've got him out eleven times.
But his celebration was equivalent to my.
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Eleven wicket celebrations.
He did everything, from 'Gangnam Style.
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To rolling on the ground.
He avenged all his eleven dismissals.
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via his celebration.
But everybody says this, even Cheteshwar Pujara and.
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Ishant Sharma had mentioned in the.
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Isolation Premier League.
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That if you lose your wicket to a non-regular bowler, Then the rest of the team will never let you forget it.
They just tease you all the time.
Yes, that happens.
A few of them even teased me saying, 'You lost your wicket to Adam Gilchrist? Have some shame!' From embarrassment, let’s move on to happiness.
We are talking about your Test hat-trick, the Kolkata one.
Thank you.
The hat-trick where Gilchrist was also dismissed.
Here is the question about that hat-trick.
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We already know about your 3 dismissals.
Who was the non-striker while.
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Took your hat-trick at Kolkata? Steve Waugh Good answer, another six.
Well done.
Let me tell you, Steve Waugh was one of those.
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Cricketers who were my heroes.
Like Kapil Paaji (Kapil Dev), Sachin Tendulkar.
Steve Waugh was in that category of players, He was one of my heroes.
And Steve Waugh never used to sledge, He never used to say anything.
No, he used to say, he used to say a lot.
But he was a stubborn player.
He used to put a hefty price on his wicket.
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And make us bowlers struggle.
To get him out, you know.
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That gave me a lot of satisfaction.
He was the world's best player and.
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I used to think that the day I dismissed him, I would have arrived as a bowler and.
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I could do well at the international level.
Nice.
Now, I have one more question for you.
This is also about one of your early big brothers, Your first roommate in the Indian team.
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Bhajju (Harbhajan imitating) Bhajju, you are Lord Hanuman.
You have no idea about the strength you possess.
So this question is about Sherry Pa.
Are you ready? Absolutely, I am ready.
Please complete the following couplet, ‘Lions have absolute freedom, They should be punctual about their freedom…' 'Eat, drink, enjoy…’ I don’t know.
It was something like this, right? ‘Whoever they…’ ‘Whoever they destroy; They should continue to eat, drink and enjoy’, It is something like this, right? Absolutely.
Now let me recite it in his style, ‘Lions have absolute freedom, They should be punctual about their freedom; Whoever they destroy, they should continue to.
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Eat, drink and enjoy’.
Clap your hands.
There is no one here.
During a match in Pune.
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There was a new movie which was released.
And it had a song in it, ‘Sundara, Sundara’.
I guess it was Suniel Shetty’s film.
So when I went to the run-up before bowling, I saw Paaji (Navjot Singh Sindhu) standing on mid-on And I could hear him singing this song… ‘Sundara, Sundara; Sundara, Sundara’.
After 2-3 deliveries.
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I myself started singing, ‘Sundara, Sundara’.
So I told Paaji that this song is stuck in my head, To an extent that I just can’t focus on where to bowl.
One day while bowling, he told me.
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(Harbhajan speaking Punjabi) What? It means to collect him (batsmen).
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Like a ‘Jalebi’ (round Indian sweet).
And this made me laugh while bowling.
So I had to tell him to not say anything funny.
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Before I bowl, otherwise I won’t be able.
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To control my laughter.
This reminds me that I will have to call him.
He has changed his number.
I haven’t been able to catch hold of him.
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For a couple of years now.
He met my father somewhere and told him, ‘Tell Gaurav that he has forgotten his big brother’.
I was in London at that time.
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And my father met him at Vaishno Devi.
And my father told me what Sherry Pa was saying.
So I told him, ‘He is a politician now.
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Don’t trust anything he says’.
And when my father told him, ‘He is saying that he is trying to call you and.
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That you have changed your number’.
He replied with, ‘Oh, he is very funny’, and left.
I think we will have to do one entire series based on.
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Sherry Pa’s stories.
Because he is not found anywhere these days.
But Sherry Pa is an unbelievable motivator.
When I played for India for the first time.
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He made me believe that there is.
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No bigger bowler than me.
And he was the only person who told me that.
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I will play 100 Test matches for India.
And if there is someone from Punjab who will play.
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100 Test matches for India, it will be you.
I really don’t know what he thought when he said that.
But hats off to him.
He really loves me and whenever he meets me.
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He always asks me whether I am happy.
And always wished for me to be happy and do well.
I really miss him on TV.
He also dances very well.
Though he just knew one step.
He used to stay in his limit, in his zone.
(Both imitating Sherry Pa) He used to dance through his hands.
Well, I have noticed that Harbhajan Singh has.
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Scored 36 out of 36 runs in the powerplay.
And with this, he has won a free-hit.
Are you ready for it? Who doesn’t like a Free-hit? I am not bowling, right? No, you are the batsman.
Then it’s alright.
You shouldn’t get a free-hit while bowling.
And especially when you are bowling that.
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Free-hit to someone like Chris Gayle.
Anyone for that matter, they all.
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Become Chris Gayle while facing a free-hit.
I have a photo question for you.
Are you ready? Yes.
Since hard work is not my forte.
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I thought why not take the photo from your Instagram.
Identify the two cricketers next to you.
Yuvi is on one side.
‘Tempu’, Reetinder Sodhi is on the other side.
What, ‘Tempu’? What does it mean? When he used to bowl, his speed was so slow.
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If you had a race between him and a tempo, The tempo would race ahead of him.
His running speed was.
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So slow that we named him ‘Tempu'.
Talking about this very tour, We were playing in Sri Lanka and Saurav asked.
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Whom should we select? Should we select ‘Tempu’?.
I asked, ‘Dada (Sourav Ganguly), you too?’.
To which he said, ‘Don’t you all call him ‘Tempu’?’ He thought that’s his real name.
Like Rinku, Bunty, Monu.
Exactly, in the same way ‘Tempu’.
Wait you might be thinking that.
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I am just saying it for the sake of it.
No way.
Have you really.
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Saved his number as ‘Tempu’ on your phone? Wow, what a name!.
Tempu, Buggi.
Why do the Punjab team members.
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Have such unusual names? You remember the show, ‘Zabaan Sambhalke’? Yes.
One day, I want to sit with Yuvi and you and.
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With all the stories of the Punjab team, I think we can make a Part 2 of that show.
It will be a solid one for sure.
If we apply no filter to it, People will become crazy laughing.
There are no filters on the Internet these days.
Like Yuvi's story of, ‘You-you-you-you go, you go’.
I have a story on this as well.
Yuvraj Singh and Rahul Sharma were in the gym.
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And someone came in the gym.
So while exercising, Yuvraj tells him.
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‘Now, you go-go-go-go-go’.
Who came to the gym? ‘Now, you go-go-go-go-go’.
‘Earlier you were gymming with me and now, You are saying go-go-go-go, what is the matter?’ I have another interesting question.
If you can answer this, I will give you 8 runs.
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And with that, you will complete your 50 runs.
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How did you like it? Nice? What is the question? Can you see this photo? Yes.
Who is the photographer of this beautiful photo? Let me think.
How many options do I have? Only one.
GK? Gaurav Kapur? And with this, Harbhajan Singh completes a half-century.
8 runs.
Claps You know, what the people watching this.
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Show (Isolation Premier League) will be commenting? What? People will say that you asked such serious and.
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Tough questions to Ashwin & DK.
Yuvi didn’t get a free-hit.
And you asked such easy questions to Bhajji You gave him points too easily.
I would like to tell them.
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That this is an ‘Exhibition Match’.
This is not an ICC match, this is not an IAS exam.
This is meant for fun and laughter.
This won’t be put in the record books.
Whether it is a 50, a 100 or a 500, it doesn’t matter.
What’s the big deal? Before leaving, I want to ask you that you must be.
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Missing the IPL a lot since it didn’t take place this year.
Because obviously, you really look forward to it.
Yeah, that’s the only tournament.
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I play throughout the year.
So, I was kind of looking forward to playing.
You have to accept the fact that it is not happening.
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And I don’t see it happening this year.
But at the same time, we have been blessed with the.
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Opportunity to learn on how to deal with.
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The difficulty that has come upon us.
How to fight against the problem.
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And learn how to live this life.
IPL can happen next year as well.
But if we don't handle this situation well, Then it will be too late.
So please handle it well, stay inside your homes, Be healthy, keep your families safe and be responsible.
India, let’s get united, let’s fight with this Coronavirus.
And I am sure, we are all going to win this fight.
And that’s all we have for you.
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in this episode of ‘Isolation Premier League’ We do have a lot of players coming up, Some will come to play the powerplay, Some will come to play 20 overs and.
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Some to play T-10.
But they will all come to play and.
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Definitely to have fun, just for you.
So, do subscribe to Oaktree Sports.
Thank you very much.
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Harbhajan Singh – The Champion.
Thank you so much for being on the show, Really appreciate you taking out the time.
Thank you very much, Gaurav.
I will come to eat Dal (pulse) & Aloo-Gobi (vegetable).
And I will make Namak & Ajwain (salt & carom seeds).
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Parathas (Indian bread) for you.
Wow, my mouth has started watering.
I have also made Amle ka Achaar (gooseberry pickle).
Come.
Hashim Amla’s or normal Amla’s? No No.
He used to make mine in fact by not getting out.
Correct, he never used to get out.
Excellent.
Thank you so much, Bhajju.
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