Meet World Cup winner with MS Dhoni, now DSP in Haryana, he proposed THIS radical action against violent farmer protestors…

On nowadays back some 17 years back, Team India managed to accomplish a 24-year jinx by becoming world champions within the inaugural T20 World Cup 2007 held in South Africa. T20 cricket was still attempting to search out it’s feet in international cricket and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni managed to script history with a young side which had reasonably various unknown faces at that point.

One of many little-known World Cup heroes for India was Haryana all-rounder Joginder Sharma picked out of nowhere for the T20 World Cup and became a part of cricketing folklore together with his display within the final. Dhoni famously gave the last over of the T20 World Cup 2007 final to Joginder Sharma against arch-rivals Pakistan with Misbah-ul-haq going strong.

Former Pakistan captain Misbah had the match won with a six and 4 within the final over but Joginder managed to fool the Pakistan batter into an ill-advised scoop shot which was pouched by S. Sreesanth at short fine-leg to seal the win for India and Dhoni.

️, ! #OnThisDay in 2007, came out on top in an exhilarating final to change into the first team to lift the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup trophy! #PlayBold #TeamIndia

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The 2007 T20 World Cup was the last of the T20I international matches for Joginder, who also turned out in Four ODIs for India without doing an out of this world deal. He was selected by MS Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings to play within the Indian Premier League (IPL) for four season from 2008 to 2011 wherein he picked up 12 wickets in 16 matches for the former champions.

Joginder Sharma approached Haryana HC after being overlooked for promotion

Rather than his cricketing career, post his return from the T20 World Cup, Joginder Sharma joined the Haryana Police in 2007 at the post of DSP. Earlier this year, Joginder approached the Haryana High Court since he was not considered for promotion to an IPS officer.

Joginder’s plea had argued that his name had not been included within the list of those considered for elevation to the IPS. The state government was taking into account 12 state police service officers for elevation to IPS for the percent out list of 2021. Most of the DSPs within the list had joined state police in 2009. On the choice hand the World Cup hero’s name, who had been recruited under the sports quota, had not been included whatever the fact that he had joined in 2007.

Joginder Sharma’s radical action against farmer protestors

Joginder, who was posted in Ambala district in March this year, came up with the proposal to cancel the visa and passport of those found guilty of vandalism all through farmer’s agitation. “The protesters impending Haryana at some stage within the farmers’ stir and indulging in acts of vandalism like breaking barricades have been identified through CCTV footage and drone cameras and thru the videos which now we have got shot. Against such people, we're in a position to be in search of in the course of the Ministry of External Affairs and thru the embassies that their passports and visas be cancelled,” Ambala’s DSP Joginder Sharma, had told reporters.

“We have taken many photographs wherein some protesters are seen indulging in acts of vandalism. We're verifying their names and addresses,” he said.

Joginder Sharma reunited with MS Dhoni after 12 years

Joginder also met his T20 World Cup 2007 skipper MS Dhoni last month and posted the photo on his social media account. The former Haryana cricket team captain had used an old hindi song – ‘Ae Yaar Sunn Yaari Teri’ and captioned the post, “It was nice to meet Dhoni after a really long-term. The fun of meeting you after almost 12 years was different at the present.”

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In his first class career, Joginder Sharma scored 2,804 runs in 77 matches with 5 hundreds and 10 fifties and likewise picked up 297 wickets at an out of this world average of 21.09.