| |  | He is the only son of Sardar Sardev Singh, a businessman who owned a ball bearing and valve factory. | |
| | | Harbhajan was trained as a batsman by his first coach Charanjit Singh Bullar, but converted to spin bowling after his coach's untimely death saw him turn to the tutelage of Davinder Arora. | |
| | | He scored the Second fastest ODI fifty by an Indian - a record, he shares with Rahul Dravid, Kapil Dev and Yuvraj Singh - when he took 22 balls against Kenya in 2001. | |
| | | Following the death of his father in 2000, Harbhajan became the family head, and as of 2001, had organised marriages for three of his sisters. | |
| | | Harbhajan is also an employee of Indian Airlines. | |
| | | He has the second-highest number of Test wickets by an off spinner behind Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan. | |
| | | He became the first Indian bowler to take a hat trick in Test cricket dismissing Ricky Ponting, Gilchrist and Shane Warne in successive balls. | |
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