Indian off spinner Harbhajan Singh says he has had enough of the bad boy tag and now wants to concentrate on his cricket.

In an interview given to a national daily, Harbhajan said he is tired of all the drama that has surrounded his career for the last year: "Yes, I'm sick of all the bad boy crap. I have no interest in hearing about how controversies follow me wherever I go."

"I'm going to stay away from all that shit and concentrate on not getting involved in any kind of crap. And this is how it willbe, not just in my cricketing life but also in life generally."

"For too long, what I've said or done has been the focal point of things rather than my cricket."

Bhajji was involved in a long drawn controversy in Australia earlier in the year, with the hosts eventually charging the Indian offie of a serious racial slur against fallen all-rounder Andrew Symonds.

Harbhajan again came in the Aussie line of fire when opener Matthew Hayden called him an "obnoxious tweed" on national radio.

The lowest point in his career came during the Indian Premier League, when he slapped his India teammate S Sreesanth after a game between the Bhajji led Mumbai Indians and King's XI Punjab.

The IPL immediately banned Harbhajan for the rest of the tournament and five ODI's. However, the "Turbanator" does accept he went horribly wrong and admits to have turned over a new leaf.

"Everybody goes through lots of drama, and yes, you make mistakes and learn from them. If I didn't make mistakes, I would be god, right?"

"If people learn from those mistakes, they won't repeat them. In the IPL I made a mistake. In Australia, I didn't. It wasn't my fault."

"We went there to play good cricket, we played good cricket. We won the one-day series, we won a Test, we did extremely well, we rattled them on the field."

However, despite all the controversies that have engulfed the tempermental off spinner in the past against Australia, Indian cricket fans can rest blisfully assured that Bhajji would not back out.

"See, I play with a lot of passion always, the difference with the Australians is that they put a lot of challenges ahead of one when they play I respond."

"I love challenges and I always want to do well against Australia, because if you do manage something special, you know you've done so against the best team in the world."

"I like to fight, I like to keep going, I like it when there's that extra edge because the Aussies won't let you win."

It was a tough summer Down Under and India and Australia fought hard and came back with reputaions intact, some have since gone on the merry journey towards greatness. The upcoming series at the onset of the Indian winter promises to be no different.

There would be no Adam Gilchrist and more importantly no Symonds but the affable Harbhajan Singh will mark his brisk run up with the same deadly accuracy. There is still a job to be done. Remember, Ricky Ponting and Hayden are two gentlemen who can bat a bit!