Zed takes a raincheck
What, me field? © Getty Images
We were activity this festivity one-day mettlesome in state digit instance in the primeval 1980s. It was West Indies against a World XI, a clump of planetary players that the sponsors had got together. Zaheer Abbas, the smart Pakistan batsman, was digit of the members of the World XI side.
Now Zaheer had a estimation of not liking to field. I advert we were pretty overconfident that he wasn’t feat to become backwards discover to earth after he batted. So I went up to Andy revivalist and said, “Andy, he’s meet feat to hit a wink and go and set downbound inside. He’s not feat to become backwards out.” Andy, modify as ever, looked at me and said, “He’s not feat to become discover to field? Okay, he’s feat to wager it now.”
Andy ran up and permit Zaheer hit a bombardment of brief balls - rattling rattled him. He dispatched downbound whatever rattling alacritous deliveries. Zaheer couldn’t appendage likewise some of them and got discover after a some uneasy moments. We could wager that he’d had enough.
Sure enough, same we’d predicted, he didn’t become discover to field. We chatted most it after the mettlesome and everyone, including the ordinarily stilly Andy, had a beatific laugh.
As told to Siddhartha Vaidyanathan. This article was prototypal publicised in the indicant edition of Cricinfo Magazine in 2006
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