Harbhajan Singh, only a couple of months away from turning 39, proved age is just number. The veteran off-spinner once again played a crucial role in Chennai Super Kings’ 6-wicket win over Delhi Capitals on Friday at Visakhapatnam that took them to their 8th IPL final.

Harbhajan picked up two crucial wickets and helped CSK restrict DC to a modest total of 147 for 9 on a sluggish track.Harbhajan gave DC a body blow by removing Shikhar Dhawan for 18 in the final over of the Powerplay. Rutherford became Harbhajan’s second victim towards the back-end of the DC innings. Harbhajan finished with figures of 4-0-31-2.

In the process Harbhajan also became only the fourth cricketer in the history of IPL to get to 150 wickets. Harbhajan is only the third Indian to do so and he currently stands at No. 3 in the highest wicket-takers’ list of IPL only behind Lasith Malinga (169) and Amit Mishra (157). Both Harbhajan and Piyush Chawla have 150 wickets but the off-spinner has a better economy(7.05) rate than the latter.

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Harbhajan Singh from Punjab now has a lot of Tamil fans. The turbanator who has played 10 seasons of his IPL career for Mumbai Indians was picked up by CSK for season 11. The reason behind Harbhajan’s surge in popularity is his frequent tweets in Tamil and the man who is scripting those poetic words is an engineer named Saravanan.

The 27-year-old Saravanan has been an ardent fan of Harbhajan ever since the off-spinner performed a hat trick in the epic Kolkata Test of 2001. As Saravanan stood as a strong defender on social media from those who trolled Harbhajan time and again, the cricketer was bowled over by the fan’s sincerity.

The latest tweet of the Harbhajan after winning Delhi says, “இன்னா செய்தாரை ஒறுத்தல் அவர் நாண win-நயம் செய்து விடல்! சறுக்குனாலும் யானை யானைதான், வயசானாலும் சிங்கம் சிங்கம் தான். மொத்ததுல நாங்க நாங்கதான்! எங்க சங்கம் இருந்துச்சுன்னா சம்பவம் கண்டிப்பா இருக்கும். மீண்டும் ஒரு @IPL சரித்திர பயணத்தை நோக்கி போடு நடை! Let’s do it, #CSK”

இன்னா செய்தாரை ஒறுத்தல் அவர் நாண win-நயம் செய்து விடல்! சறுக்குனாலும் யானை யானைதான், வயசானாலும் சிங்கம் சிங்கம் தான். மொத்ததுல நாங்க நாங்கதான்! எங்க சங்கம் இருந்துச்சுன்னா சம்பவம் கண்டிப்பா இருக்கும். மீண்டும் ஒரு @IPL சரித்திர பயணத்தை நோக்கி போடு நடை! Let’s do it, #CSK pic.twitter.com/UxLfDY8w4o

— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) May 10, 2019

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On seeing his tweets, veteran filmmaker Cheran who is known among tamil people for films like “Autograph”, “Dhavamai Dhavamirunthu” thought that Harbhajan learnt Tamil to post these tweets. He posted it through a tweet it seems. After realizing that those tweets are from Saravanan, the director took to twitter and apologized to his followers.

In his tweet Cheran said “ஹர்பஜன் தமிழில் அவரே டுவீட் செய்திருக்கிறார்.. தமிழ் கற்றிருக்கிறார் என்ற தவறான தகவல் பகிர்ந்தமைக்கு வருந்துகிறேன்..”

Check out his tweet here :

ஹர்பஜன் தமிழில் அவரே டுவீட் செய்திருக்கிறார்.. தமிழ் கற்றிருக்கிறார் என்ற தவறான தகவல் பகிர்ந்தமைக்கு வருந்துகிறேன்..

— Cheran Pandian (@cherandreams) May 11, 2019

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In this era where many people are hesitating to apologize for serious offences, it is heartwarming to see Cheran making effort to make people aware about false informations. The directed who made “Thirumanam” movie recently is awaiting for the release of “Rajavukku Check” in which he featured as one of the lead.