Wasim Akram 1992 World Cup final

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2nd spell, round the wicket!

Ball to lewis…hits the deck…the end of the green …goes on to move in at 45degrees and knocks of off stump..without a doubt the best ball ive ever seen!!!

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OK.

Congrats! did Pakistan manage to win the match?

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welcome to civilization; caveman :)

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I think there was a faint inside edge. The replays only show one camera angle which doesn't clearly show if the ball seamed in or got deflected.

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Every time you watch those two deliveries...it seems like just yesterday not 15 years.

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The beauty by Wasim Akram...round the wicket.... cleans off Allan Lamb!

RICHIE BENAUD; *"...perhaps,,,, so too England??"*

WHAT a sight that was at the MCG...and a few overs before--I could see Imran shiverrrrrr... when Wasim bend down to massage his limbs. So did we...as we were continuously shouting to Imran to do something--to get Lamb 'ba ba ba' back to the pavillion !!!!! and he may have had a telepathy that he bought Wasim Akram.. before he was due.

Chris Lewis may have received the 45 degree turning ball... but he helped the ball go to the stumps by playing it "ON"...!

Later that night--back at the Hilton-Melbourne, we had a great party--where Javed Miandad gave the BHANGRA performance--unbelievable.

IF you all can get hold of the pictorial book published by Munir Hussain's son... you'll be amazed and overwhelmed to see the breath-taking pics of the WC-92 final...and the classic is the only where Mushtaq.. literally jumping high---floated towards Aqib when he took that unbelievable cath of Gooch !!

I hope there is a re-run of the WC-92 in the forthcoming World Cups for PAKISTAN... I sure do hope & pray!

Cheers----------Raju Uncle

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Fast forward to 1999 WC final .....

We had great hopes from the WC'99 and WC'03 teams which featured Wasim, Waqar, Shoaib, Inzi, Saeed, Yousuf, Razzaq but oh well :(

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The filthy richness of the Pakistan Cricket Board coupled with Adhocism...well joined by the appointment of Chairman purely on high connections alongside the ever increasing **Player POWER (Inzy being Hitler here!)* will make it very very hard for our Cricket Team to behold the World Cup--yet once again!*

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But things were no different in 1992. Replace Inzy's name with Imran and this pargaraph will be true in 1992.

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No ,there wasn't any edge .It all happened that quickly that even Lewis couldn't make out what happened .It was a fast inswinger ,...yep one of the best deliveries .

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IMRAN KHAN as a CRICKETER :- "THE LAST EMPEROR"
IMRAN KHAN as a POLITICIAN : "GONE WITH THE WIND"

IMO....Imran was not a dictator---he was a Mongol Warrior with no mercy for the bad performers. He was like Genghis Khan.

I remember..before leaving for Australia on WC-92 while visiting Javed Burki at his office---during exchange of thoughts on the first tie we lost by 10 wickets to West Indies...JB told me that he had asked Imran what's happening? and Imran had.. after loosing that ODI..said "Mein CUP le karr aounga"...later when England took us to task and ALLAH ALMIGHTY sent the rain to see the salvation of Lord..with both teams getting one point each....JB was quite angry..on which IK again said.. "I am coming back with the cup..." Now I dont know whether he had received any message or had contacted some clairvoyant...what I know is...that he came back with the cup!!!

**INZY...as I know him....was too damn occupied with his 'team' . He was never ever seen enthusiastic or a role model/leader on the field. He was too casual or had become....after playing world class cricket--and amidst his fetes.. he went bereft. I sat with him for hours and hours...spoke to him on phone...that an administrative as well as leadership traits must be demonstrated by him.. but he was deaf n dumb on that. HAD he adopted one of such trait....he could have been the replica of IK...but alas...Inzy's act of buffoonery and shooting himself on his foot... took him far back to square one....and on top of that...he now expresses more juvenile act by joining the ICL.

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Raju Uncle, tell us more about the whole imran JM incident b4 the 92 WC?? The whole controversy where Javed was not selected on (according to rumors) Imran's choice....

I do remember that Pictorial book from 1992 i think it was sold seperately with Akhbar-E-Watan in late 92 and i remember buying it and sending it to my brother who was in US and he eventually lost it.

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it was a fast inswinger however there was an inside edge as well. The only time I thought there was no edge was the first time when I was watching the match live on march 25th 1992. As soon as they showed the first replay, we saw the inside edge.

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This is intresting..Everytime a team wins you get this kind of story. Here is question..what would you expect any other captain to say if Javed Burki asked the same question? They all go there to win worldcup. I remember talking to Sehwag during league matches of WC'03 and he said We are gonna win worldcup. I bet, had India won we would be talking how legendry Sehwag was.
Point is that any captain would have answered same way if asked that question.

are you sure Imran was not a dictator as a captain.
May be I dont know as much as you know but whole world knew that Imran as captain was dictator. Many time he even made selectors puppets.

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Funny that you pose that to me...friend! Somehow---I get the feeling that someone or you..at this forum knows the background--or---the part I played in looping JM back in the World Cup scenario.

See my forthcoming mail on how it all happened--and remember--- every bit of what I will cascade...is a fact absolutely true!

Wait...........

-Raju Uncle

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  • INZY never did...!! even a few days before he was leaving for the Carribean land. I spoke to him a night before his departure and he would continuously deviate from answering this 'not-out-of-the-box' question. I wonder what you mean by the term "DICTATOR" ? Imran was a very strong administrator---and where we dont like the traits or practice & implementation of strong administration one excercises---we tend to term it as dictatorship. Back in late 80's..during Sharjah matches---I remember the post lunch gup shup I use to have with some Paki & Indy players and during of such moments I distinctly remember Gavaskar & Srikanth telling me.. "wonder what will happen to your team after Immo retires?" *and I also remember Ravi Shastri saying *"bheerro....ye tumhara Imran tow hamari khatya kharri kar deyta hai...". The only bad point I noted in Imran was (which I was bold enough to tell him on his face--when he visited my office back in 1993-94---in relation to Ramzan Zakat Campaign for SKMT) was that he had this uncanny hatred for his competitor--and the only one he feared here was Miandad. He took an edge on JM by virtue of being an Oxford student and quality English which JM lacked otherwise IMO...JM beat IK hollow! on the game as well as Captain....as IK never had a 'foxy' mind of tricks up his sleeves. IK largely depended on JM on field and the moves during the critical moments of the game.

Get the DVD of of the 'sixer walla' ODI of Sharjah and watch carefully when IK & JM are batting/struggling against Indians on a fairly high run rate to catch... and watch how JM is guiding IK....

IK's another bad point--if we may call it---was that he never created or guided a successor after him for Pak-Cricket. He was slightly tilted towards Wasim Akram.. but inside his heart--he wanted the Pak Crick to become bereft after him....as I strongly feel that anyone on high post at sensitive and such visible places---must, with a view to keep the trait prevailing---mus....get his successor ready to take over.

INZY became Captain...as a matter of "Hobson's Choice" (now dont ask me what's HOBSON'S CHOICE?)...like did Shoaib Malik.

Cheers------------Raju

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So who was the second undesirable option in Shoaib Malik's case ? Afridi ?

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I agree with Uncle RJ that Imran had a very positive attitude towards the game. He believed he could win and led from the front, where as, Inzi has always been on a more cautious side..'we'll do our best, it's just a game, don't get your hopes too high' kind of a guy..more like Dravid.

It would be interesting to read why Miandad was left out in 92 and juwari Malik went along. It was also interesting to see how Malik was treated as a nobody in the final and semifinal matches.

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Was Salim Malik already on Bookies' payroll as early as the 92 WC? All I remember him doing is getting out cheaply time and again, giving catches in the covers playing one-handed shots.