“And what does he do on arrival?” Intikhab warms up.
Now it was Malik’s turn to brood on injustice but he couldn’t say much as runs had dried out. Not only was he called back, arriving in Australia just 10 days before the start of the tournament on Valentine’s Day, he was also made the vice-captain. Imran is such a fighter as the world knows, and he was more convinced than me that the gravity of the injury had to be hidden,” Intikhab says.Įxpress Impact | From Imran Khan to Babar Azam, Pakistan tigers most dangerous when corneredĪll that meant Javed’s presence won’t be a ‘hindrance’ anymore. We felt they would get demoralised even more – already nothing seemed to be going right. “I remember one day we had a chat and said we would try our best to hide this from the team. Salim Malik, the vice-captain, couldn’t get bat to ball, Akram couldn’t control the swing of the white ball (Ian Botham, Allan Lamb, Chris Lewis would find that ironical), Waqar Younis was sadly nursing a back fracture that would put him out of the World Cup, Mushtaq Ahmed couldn’t land the ball where he wanted, young Inzamam-ul-Haq would find the bounce difficult to tame.Ībove all, Imran had a serious shoulder problem. The practice games-they had had six of them-were proving disastrous as Pakistan kept losing. “Miandad would keep saying how he is fit, and one day when he really sounded genuine about it, I said ‘if you are fit, come over, we do need you’,” Intikhab says.
“We would run on parking lots to get our run-ups, the feel of Australian grounds,” he said the other day on A Sports. Wasim Akram would talk about how some of the acclimatisation was done at the parking lots as they couldn’t get grounds to train from the Australian board. Pakistan had gone there 20 days earlier to get acclimated to the conditions. Buy 2-year plan with SD20 code for special price Javed Miandad and Imran Khan.
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