Wasim Akram and Waqar Yunus had a very balanced discussion on Hassan Ali's drop catch |
It was agreed to listen to the analysis of Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Misbah-ul-Haq and Wahab Riaz on a TV channel after the Pakistan team lost to Australia in the semi-finals of the ICC T20 World Cup. In this program, Hassan Ali was also talked about the catch drop.
Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis had a very balanced discussion on this issue. His position was that it was not fair to throw all the rubble of defeat on Hassan Ali due to one catch. Misbah-ul-Haq and Wahab Riaz also seemed to agree with him.
Seeing Wahab Riaz in the panel reminded me of the quarter finals of the 2015 World Cup, in which he made a very memorable spell. After David Warner and Michael Clarke were shown the way to the pavilion, their spirits were further stimulated.
Now new batsman Shane Watson was facing his wrath. He tried to hook Wahab's shot pitch ball but the ball touched the upper edge of the bat and went towards Fine League where Rahat Ali made an easy catch. At the time, Watson had scored four runs. If he had been out, the Australian team would have been out for 83 runs and she would have been under a lot of pressure.
Wahab Riaz's sharp attack on Watson continued and staying on the wicket became a torment for him, but he managed to save his wicket
Pakistan lost the match but Wahab Riaz's fast bowling was in vain. The great cricketers of the past appreciated his bowling. The performance was imprinted on the minds of cricket fans on Australian soil.
You learned about Wahab Riaz's hard work in the quarter-finals of the 2015 World Cup. Earlier in the 2011 World Cup semi-final against India, Pakistani fielders dropped four catches by Sachin Tendulkar and he was the man of the match for 85 runs and Wahab Riaz's dismissal of half the team did not help Pakistan
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Wahab Riaz made a memorable spell against Australia in the quarter finals of the 2015 World Cup |
The incidents of catch-dropping from Rahat Ali and Hassan Ali are related to the modern era of cricket. These events are still fresh in people's minds. Let us now take you back to the early days of Pakistan cricket when the fielding situation was so bad that Chirag Hassan Hasrat had to say:
"In front of our players, the ball should be arranged in a saucer and presented so that the Holy Prophet can pick it up and catch it."
The validity of this statement of regret will be proved by two examples.
In 1952
In 1952, Pakistan won the first Test match in its history in Lucknow. Lala Amarnath, the captain of the Indian team, had lived in Lahore for some time before the partition. He was well acquainted with the idiom of this city. When he reached the crease, Fazal Mahmood said to fast bowler Mahmood Hussain in Punjabi
Tear off his head (Mahmoud tear off his head (with a bouncer).)=÷
When Fazal Mehmood himself came to bowl Lala Amarnath, he asked Zulfiqar Ahmed to stand on the square league and be ready for the catch. After that he got a bouncer under the strategy and in an attempt to avoid it, the ball hit the bat of Lala Amarnath and went towards Zulfiqar Ahmed, then he dropped an easy catch. "My wife would have caught such an easy catch," Amarnath told Zulfiqar Ahmed.
The Lucknow Test victory was significant in that it gave Pakistan an account of their achievements in Test cricket but the defeat of England on home soil in the Oval Test was the feat of a novice team that took the world of cricket by surprise. Put
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In the match against West Indies in 2016, Saeed Ajmal and Shoaib Malik had a funny situation during the catch |
Fortunately, the performance of Pakistani fielders in this test was very 'ideal'. In the final stages of the match, England's Wardell caught three balls in a row and the fielders made a hat trick to drop the catch.$$¥
In wounded Tiger, a nerve-wracking reverse hat-trick is declared.
In the Oval Test, Pakistani wicketkeeper Imtiaz Ahmed told me in an interview that when Compton played a shot in the Oval Test, the ball bounced in the air because it did not hit his bat properly, with the fielder holding it in his hands It was the right time, Wazir Mohammad moved to catch the catch, then the teammates began to say, 'Minister! God forbid, catching is a question of honor of the country ', these pleas had no effect on the fielder and the ball in his hand hit his forehead.
There are many stories of Pakistani players dropping catches which, if paid for, could turn into a huge book. So how far can one tell these stories? Just listen to this one last story
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Imran Khan catches Wasim Akram's ball in Lahore Test against West Indies in December 1990
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In the Lahore Test against West Indies in December 1990, Wasim Akram took four wickets off five balls. After dismissing Gus Logie and Dojon, he would have hat-tricked Ian Bishop on the third ball but Imran Khan left an easy catch at mid on.
Wasim Akram took the wickets of Marshall and Courtney Wash on the next two balls. If another player had dropped the catch and lost the hat trick, Wasim Akram would have been well aware of it, but the 'culprit' here was his guru, so he had no choice but to be patient
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The story of drop catches: When Imran Khan dropped a catch and Wasim Akram could not score a hat trick |
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