The off-spinner admitted he bowled just about okay but added that it was difficult out there for the bowlers. "I think I bowled okay. It was the first day of a Test and it is always difficult to get batsmen out. Tomorrow will be a different story when I go out to bowl and hopefully I will get a few more wickets," he said.
"We will try to get them out as soon as we can and hopefully 75-80 runs will be our target. We know that we have to get two wickets and then we start into their tail. It is a matter of getting those two early wickets and if we get those, then we are right in the game," he added.
According to Harbhajan, India gave away atleast 20-30 runs in the fielding which may make a big difference in the end. "Tomorrow, I hope we put in a good performance in bowling, batting and fielding. These things happen in cricket and hopefully it won't be repeated again. It would have been nice to stop those 30 runs and see the scoreboard at the end on 270 for four," he remarked.
The Punjab bowler felt on a first day wicket like the one in Chennai, bowlers had to come up with something special to get breakthroughs. "You have to vary your line and length according to the wicket. Let me tell you one thing that the wicket is very, very flat and it is hard for the bowlers to keep running in with the same intensity in this heat. But I think in the first session we gave away a lot of boundaries. So we will look to try and control the boundaries and make life difficult for them tomorrow," he explained.
Harbhajan hastened to add: "You can't really keep complaining about the wickets. Whatever wicket you get, you have to play to the best of your ability. You can't keep saying its flat or there is too much grass on it or too much spin but play on whatever wicket we get."
On Jacques Kallis’ decision to walk despite umpire Asad Rauf ruling him not out, Harbhajan said: "Obviously it was a big nick so he had to walk."