Harbhajan Singh wants to celebrate big time after Mumbai Indians teammate scores a fifty or ton

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When Andrew Symonds was picked up by Mumbai Indians during the Indian Premier League (IPL) Season Four players' auction in January, almost instantaneously there was talk about sparks flying in a dressing room that the Queenslander would have to share with hisu00a0 nemesis ufffd the man who most Australians, including Symonds, claim curtailed his international career.

In an interview last year, Symonds revealed the incidents that followed Monkeygate had sent him into a depressive state, and even propelled him to start drinking a bit more. Symonds said that Harbhajan Singh 'was lucky' to escape the controversy without a match ban. Later that year, Harbhajan told MiD DAY in a freewheeling chat that he wanted to bury the hatchet with Symonds, and 'was hurt' when he read that Symonds had blamed him for ending his international career.

The feisty off-spinner has held out the olive branch to Symonds, and it is learnt that the two have been getting along really well in the Mumbai Indians dressing room.

MiD DAY caught up with Harbhajan soon after his side's eight-wicket victory against Delhi Daredevils here at the Feroz Shah Kotla yesterday. Harbhajan, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Munaf Patel ufffd the four Indian players who were part of the World Cup winning XI ufffd were invited by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for a dinner soon after the game.

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