Dravid’s remarks make Yasir hungrier for runs

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PESHAWAR: Yasir Hameed on Friday ensured that no member of the Indian team will ever forget his face or name. An incident before the second One-day International in Rawalpindi served as a motivating factor for the 26-year-old youngster to notch up scores of 86 and 98 in the second and third One-day Internationals against India.

Yasir who started his Test career last year in Karachi against Bangladesh with two hundreds in the debut Test, only the second man after West Indian Lawrence Rowe to achieve this distinction, was irked when India’s vice captain Rahul Dravid mistook him for a nets bowler before the Pindi match.

Yasir was in the same lift with Dravid and Indian assistant manager Amrit Mathur when Dravid asked him whether he was the same bowler who had bowled to the Indians in the nets.

He then asked whether Yasir was Saqlain Mushtaq’s brother and was he also an off-spinner.

"He didn’t recognize me and I didn’t say anything. But yes it was a sort of wake up call for me. I wanted to score runs and stay long enough at the wicket to enable the Indians to recognize me throughout the series," he told ‘The News’." :smooth:

In the first one-day at Karachi, Yasir had got out cheaply but in the following games in Pindi and Peshawar, he blasted 86 and 98 respectively.

Yasir said he was extremely disappointed not to get a hundred in front of his home crowd. “It would have been very special to get a hundred in front of my home crowd and also against the Indians. But fate had not ordained it so I can’t complain.”

:bravo: What determination. I m impressed :jhanda:

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  • now yasir hameed is one name and a face dravid won't be forgetting for a long long time *
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It is one face they will not forget in a hurry.

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Dravid forgetting name of Yasir while keeping the wickets in three games :konfused: - something is not right.

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  • ^ must have been the helmet blocking his sight *
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* ^ must have been the helmet blocking his sight *
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and those shades....

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he had the miunderstanding before the 2nd game and yasir did not spend enuff time before dravid when he batted in karachi…

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very hee smart shot by yasir . impressed.no cover dr no off dive.simply using his brain slightly toubhing a noball for four.

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4 off hte last ball

39/1 (8)

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in 4th ODI yasir is 43* :jhanda:

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Give Dravid a break yaaron! I think he is generally known as a person who doesn't put on airs. Is it possible he genuinely was confused about the name?

Also remember - if he was a man of airs would he try to recognize and say hello to a mere sparring assistant?

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Give Dravid a break yaaron! I think he is generally known as a person who doesn't put on airs. Is it possible he genuinely was confused about the name?

Also remember - if he was a man of airs would he try to recognize and say hello to a mere sparring assistant?
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No one questioned Dravid's intetions my friend. Its about Yasir's determination to prove himself to the Indians after Dravid failed to recognise him.

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i reckon Rahul will remember Yasir after 4th ODI - afterall he took his bails out.

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^ I would say that the recognition process started about the time 2nd ODI was in progress. :-)