A few years ago I had a chance to see a one-day cricket match in Niaz Stadium Peshawar. The match was played between Pakistan Cricket team and Indian Cricket team. A huge crowd had come to see the match.
The captain of Pakistan team was inzimam-ul-haq while that of India team was Ganguly. Inzimam won the toss and put the Indians team to bat. Tendulkar and Sewag were the opening batsmen. Shoib Akhtar started bowling form the pavilion end. Shoaib was a bit nervous because the world top batsman Tendulkar was on the pitch. His first three balls were declared wide-balls by the Umpire. But when he bowled the fourth ball, Tendulkar was caught behind the wickets. Now Shabir was greatly encouraged. In the same over he bowled Lexaman. India team was then under pressure. But Sewag and Dravid proved very dangerous. When the score of India was 181, Dravid was out for 98 runs. After Dravid the wickets were falling very quickly. In the 47th over the whole Indian team was out for 285 runs.
After lunch Shahid Afridi and Yasir Hamid came as opening batsmen for Pakistan. The spectators were very disappointed when Shahid Afridi was bowled by Ifran Pathan in the second over of the innings. After him younis khan was caught behind and so Inzimam came to play. He proved very dangerous for India. After scoring 98 runs, Yasir Hamid was out. Now Razzaq came to play with Inzimam. When the score was 248, Inzimam was caught behind the wickets. After Inzimam, Yousaf Yuhana and Moin Khan were out without scoring any runs. Now the Pakistani team was under pressure. But thanks to Razzaq. He played so well that the desired target of 286 runs was achieved in the 49th over. Thus the match ended and Pakistan won it by two wickets.
Posted By: Wasim Javed