► Tauseef Ahmad ◄

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A nice Article by Tauseef Ahmad (Former Test Cricketer) …

The ability to spin is more important than line and length

Some of the quotes from above Article

In my debut Test series in 1980, I took 12 wickets in Pakistan’s win, but I was not considered for the national team for the next two Test series.

In the first Test of the 1989-90 series in Australia, I had two unbeaten knocks of 9 and 14, for which I batted around two hours each. Most of our top batsmen had failed. I felt proud when our captain, Imran Khan, told the batsmen, “Learn from Tauseef how to stay at the wicket”.

My most memorable batting performance was when I partnered Imran for 90 minutes to draw the 1986 Karachi Test and the series against West Indies. I faced Malcolm Marshall and Courtney Walsh in full fury during the innings.

Indian’s should hire him as batting coach

I was at the other end when Miandad hit that famous six off the last ball of the Austral-Asia Cup final in Sharjah in 1986. Even today I am often asked about it. Coming in at No. 11 with five needed, I had to face the second-last ball of the match. Before coming in to bat I had decided to run a single no matter where the ball goes. I did that, though I barely survived being run out.

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My most memorable bowling performance came in the Bangalore Test of 1986-87, when my 9 for 139 helped Pakistan win the series. Maninder Singh took seven wickets on the first day, so everyone expected me and Qasim, the two Pakistan spinners, to also perform well. We met Bishan Bedi at a function that evening, and he told us, “If you try to spin the ball a lot, it will turn so much that it will miss the bat and the stumps. Just concentrate on line and length.” We followed his advice and were successful. After the match there was a lot of hue and cry in the Indian media, condemning Bedi for revealing the “secret” to the opponents. Bedi said, “It was just a five-minute meeting with the two Pakistani spinners. I have been telling the same to the Indian spinners over the last so many years.”

What a match and just check the score card… Tauseef & Iqbal took 18 wkts and won the match & Series first time in India.

On a long flight to the West Indies in 1988, a young Ijaz Ahmed kept refusing meals every time the air-hostess came around with the menu.** I asked him, “Ijaz, you don’t feel hungry?**” He replied, "The food is very expensive." We all laughed and told him the food was free.

This one is Hilarius :omg: :rotfl: