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On This Day: November 1, 1989 - Imran Khan helped Pakistan defeat West Indies to win the Nehru Cup
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LOL India were out of the final? 
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LOL India were out of the final?
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India was massacred by West Indies in the semi-final - 165 all out!
They were a very mediocre team between 1985-2001 largely because the bowling was rubbish and the batting was mediocre.
It was only when the batting line-up clicked after 2000 that they were half-way to being a good team, and then when Zaheer Khan became a world class bowler a few years later they had a few really good years.
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Imran Khan the captain was Man of the match for his 3 wickets and an unbeaten score of 55* in a successful chase of 274.
6 teams including host India, Pak, Aus, WI, Eng & SL participated in it.
A pic of imran with young aqib during Nehru Cup
6 teams including host India, Pak, Aus, WI, Eng & SL participated in it.
A pic of imran with young aqib during Nehru Cup
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Lol Wasim finished that match with a 600 SR
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damn this must have been some tournament.
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Salim Malik played a blinder in the semi-final.
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One reason why I value you posts so much, because you have been following the game since such a long time.
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Yea with a strike rate of 160!
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Can anyone post the scorecards for semi and final
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Final
Semi Final (Pakistan had to chase 195 in 30 overs and Malik played this innings)
thanks.
bhai link kaafi thi
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Damn. Some gems from the Original Malik. Rameez not half bad.
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Chasing 277 in those days is a heck of an effort.
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195 in 30 is an even bigger effort.
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Tuk Tuk Imran almost lost us that one
Yeah poor knock by Imran. But considering he was 37 and near retirement, he can be excused somewhat.
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Seems like no 4 batting position produced a defence inducing effect on the Pakistani batsman in that potion in the Semis and Finals of the NC in '89.
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Man it makes me sad seeing these scorecards now. Makes us realize that while every other team evolved from then till today, we devolved from 2002 onwards. Victories like this one and let's say the 2002 Challenge series win vs Australia IN Australia shows what new low levels our ODI team has come to since then.
Like someone said in another thread, it's not by chance that we are 9th in the rankings
Like someone said in another thread, it's not by chance that we are 9th in the rankings
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Some time in June next year you will say the exact same words, with the only difference being "Shoaib" instead of "Salim".
Mark your calendar.
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Tuk Tuk Imran almost lost us that one
What was his SR?
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Man it makes me sad seeing these scorecards now. Makes us realize that while every other team evolved from then till today, we devolved from 2002 onwards. Victories like this one and let's say the 2002 Challenge series win vs Australia IN Australia shows what new low levels our ODI team has come to since then.
Like someone said in another thread, it's not by chance that we are 9th in the rankings
I'd say we declined in Tests far earlier than 2002, in fact IMO the 1992 Test series win in England marked the end of our golden period in Tests and from then on we haven't really been a top Test team.
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Some time in June next year you will say the exact same words, with the only difference being "Shoaib" instead of "Salim".
Mark your calendar.
I have lauded Shoaib Malik's performances for years now.
A blistering 50 in a multinational seem-final is nothing in comparison to the carnage Shoaib has done. The 1979 final at Lords is probably the greatest ODI innings ever.
The 1980s to early 1990s Pakistan team was better than the outfit of the late 1990s that usually is lauded. They were inconsistent and there was so much instability with frequent captaincy changes, infighting and eventually the matchfixing scandal. Our home record wasn't that good either.
This team of the 1980s had a world-class batsman in Miandad, Saleem Malik, a world-class all-rounder in Imran Khan, a fantastic young prospect in Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis emerging and the greatest leg-spinner we've ever produced in Abdul Qadir. People talk about the 1992 World Cup being simply 15 days of magic - when actually it was 15 years in the making. Pakistan were the only team to win a Test in the Caribbean in the 80s, the only team to avoid defeat in a series in the Caribbean between 1974 and 1995, the only team to win a series in India between 1985 and 2000, and they did not lose a series outside Australasia between 1982 and 1993. That's how good that side was and I'll take it over the late 90s side any day.
This team of the 1980s had a world-class batsman in Miandad, Saleem Malik, a world-class all-rounder in Imran Khan, a fantastic young prospect in Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis emerging and the greatest leg-spinner we've ever produced in Abdul Qadir. People talk about the 1992 World Cup being simply 15 days of magic - when actually it was 15 years in the making. Pakistan were the only team to win a Test in the Caribbean in the 80s, the only team to avoid defeat in a series in the Caribbean between 1974 and 1995, the only team to win a series in India between 1985 and 2000, and they did not lose a series outside Australasia between 1982 and 1993. That's how good that side was and I'll take it over the late 90s side any day.
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The best player, bowler and captain produced by the subcontinent. What a legendary player, MashAllah.
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1 Nov 1989 : Wasim smashes his 1st ball for 6 as Pakistan beat WI by 4 wkts in the Nehru Cup Final
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">On this day 1989. Wasim Akram smashed his first ball for six as Pakistan beat West Indies by 4 wickets in the Nehru Cup final <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://t.co/NvBnx95yto">pic.twitter.com/NvBnx95yto</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/793388629972443136">November 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">On this day 1989. Wasim Akram smashed his first ball for six as Pakistan beat West Indies by 4 wickets in the Nehru Cup final <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://t.co/NvBnx95yto">pic.twitter.com/NvBnx95yto</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/793388629972443136">November 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
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"Wasim Bhai ap thaktay nahi hain, ji nahi main cigarette nahi peeta" ad has the coverage of that. Surprisingly the Indian crowd was actually cheering us on.
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Love at first sight for me back at that time.I was a school kid and this was the first international cricket tournament for me on TV.I just fell in love with cricket and Pakistan for the first time.
I still remember the final over. Viv Richards was the bowler.Three runs was required of two deliveries.Wasim dancing down the track hit a six and won that memorable match and tournament for Pakistan.I think Imran was at the non striker end.
I searched for the video of this final many times but didn't find. Can anybody put up the video here please?
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Waise kafi acha khasa player tha
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Saleem Malik 71 off 62 against Marshall, Ambrose, Walsh and Benjamin. Sounds like an impressive knock... can't locate any footage.
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I’ll read this tomorrow as it is still 31 October here.
And boy were they quick at that time.
3 wickets and an unbeaten 55. Incredible player and that too at the fag end of his career. 273 in those days is a 350 today. Pakistan winning against a pretty good bowling attack and that too chasing and on Indian soil. One of the great Pak conquests!!
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Best match was the SF one against England, reduced by rain...Malik played a blinder of an inning which was probably one of his best, after that Calcutta knocks of 72 off 36 balls (including 5 4's against Kapil in one over who was probably one of the most miserly bowler India ever produced). When Malik finally got out in that SF match, England players were so ticked off and incensed by how he was hitting them all over the park that they started cussing at him in frustration.
That whole tournament was a show case of Malik the batsman, some of his finest moments ever and the one and only ever nehru Cup is with the country that Nehru probably liked the least LOL
SF Match video link (Quality is obviously not that great): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vaDXFiYWRA
Here is the group match against india which Pak won very convincingly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTGlNObjrBM
Imran's late hitting (19 off Kapil's last over, almost unheard of in those days) was awesome. Later watch out for Akram's dismissal of Kapil, just wow.
Here is the only video of the final I could find and it is primarily of the last over by Viv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97L7uDvq4SU
I was young back then and don't remember watching all the matches (especially the final) because of my sister's wedding on that day I think)...but looking at some of these videos and scorecards and the little I could recall, this was probably one of our best tournament wins ever and it had all the top teams playing as well!
That whole tournament was a show case of Malik the batsman, some of his finest moments ever and the one and only ever nehru Cup is with the country that Nehru probably liked the least LOL
SF Match video link (Quality is obviously not that great): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vaDXFiYWRA
Here is the group match against india which Pak won very convincingly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTGlNObjrBM
Imran's late hitting (19 off Kapil's last over, almost unheard of in those days) was awesome. Later watch out for Akram's dismissal of Kapil, just wow.
Here is the only video of the final I could find and it is primarily of the last over by Viv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97L7uDvq4SU
I was young back then and don't remember watching all the matches (especially the final) because of my sister's wedding on that day I think)...but looking at some of these videos and scorecards and the little I could recall, this was probably one of our best tournament wins ever and it had all the top teams playing as well!
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Pakistan was no doubt best team in the world in late 1980s , very unlucky to miss 1987 WC
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Was this tournament as big as world series? Seems pretty big. Great win for Pakistan indeed. Those were your finest days indeed.
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This also puts Pakistan's 1992 world cup win in context. Pakistan were a top side from 1987-1994.
India were in a good run from 1983-1987
India were in a good run from 1983-1987
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I have the entire match on VHS stored somewhere in the attic.
That competition was on par with the Champions Trophy with all the top teams participating.
That competition was on par with the Champions Trophy with all the top teams participating.
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Some great memories! Will we have more of these from our current stars ?
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Have to agree on Monsee,s sentiments when it came to malik the batsmen he was just a sublime ODI player and played knocks at the time which were unheard of. No fielding restrictions, no crappy white ball, boundaries brought in etc.. to be able to score at such a high rate in a few games against top bowlers where you could have fielders where you wanted was a real hallmark of the genuis batting malik had.
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Pakistan raised their level in multinational tournaments in 80's. Their W/L doubled in big tournaments.
Overall ODI team record in 80's
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[tr][td]Team [/td][td]Mat [/td][td]Won [/td][td]Lost [/td][td]Tied [/td][td]NR [/td][td]W/L [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]West Indies [/td][td]170 [/td][td]122 [/td][td]46 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]2.652 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]England [/td][td]120 [/td][td]64 [/td][td]55 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1.163 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Australia [/td][td]187 [/td][td]91 [/td][td]85 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]9 [/td][td]1.07 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Pakistan [/td][td]162 [/td][td]77 [/td][td]79 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]6 [/td][td]0.974 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]India [/td][td]155 [/td][td]69 [/td][td]80 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]6 [/td][td]0.862 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]New Zealand [/td][td]126 [/td][td]56 [/td][td]66 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]4 [/td][td]0.848 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Sri Lanka [/td][td]95 [/td][td]19 [/td][td]72 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]4 [/td][td]0.263 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Zimbabwe [/td][td]12 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]11 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0.09 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Bangladesh [/td][td]5 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]5 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][/tr]
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Series featuring 5 or more teams in 80's
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[tr][td]Team [/td][td]Mat [/td][td]Won [/td][td]Lost [/td][td]Tied [/td][td]NR [/td][td]W/L [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]India [/td][td]29 [/td][td]21 [/td][td]8 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]2.625 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Pakistan [/td][td]29 [/td][td]19 [/td][td]10 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1.9 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]West Indies [/td][td]25 [/td][td]15 [/td][td]9 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]1.666 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]England [/td][td]24 [/td][td]13 [/td][td]11 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1.181 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Australia [/td][td]23 [/td][td]12 [/td][td]11 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1.09 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]New Zealand [/td][td]18 [/td][td]6 [/td][td]11 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]0.545 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Sri Lanka [/td][td]20 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]18 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0.111 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Zimbabwe [/td][td]12 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]11 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0.09 [/td][/tr]
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Series record featuring 5 or more teams
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[tr][td]Series [/td][td]Winner [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Prudential World Cup (in England), 1983 [/td][td]India [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket (in Australia), 1984/85 [/td][td]India [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Austral-Asia Cup (Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka in United Arab Emirates), 1985/86 [/td][td]Pakistan [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Reliance World Cup (in India/Pakistan), 1987/88 [/td][td]Australia [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]MRF World Series (Nehru Cup) (Australia, England, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies in India), 1989/90 [/td][td]Pakistan [/td][/tr]
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Pakistan was growing stronger as 80's went on , no wonder 2 years after Nehru Cup they won 92 WC.
Overall ODI team record in 80's
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[tr][td]Team [/td][td]Mat [/td][td]Won [/td][td]Lost [/td][td]Tied [/td][td]NR [/td][td]W/L [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]West Indies [/td][td]170 [/td][td]122 [/td][td]46 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]2.652 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]England [/td][td]120 [/td][td]64 [/td][td]55 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1.163 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Australia [/td][td]187 [/td][td]91 [/td][td]85 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]9 [/td][td]1.07 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Pakistan [/td][td]162 [/td][td]77 [/td][td]79 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]6 [/td][td]0.974 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]India [/td][td]155 [/td][td]69 [/td][td]80 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]6 [/td][td]0.862 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]New Zealand [/td][td]126 [/td][td]56 [/td][td]66 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]4 [/td][td]0.848 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Sri Lanka [/td][td]95 [/td][td]19 [/td][td]72 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]4 [/td][td]0.263 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Zimbabwe [/td][td]12 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]11 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0.09 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Bangladesh [/td][td]5 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]5 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][/tr]
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Series featuring 5 or more teams in 80's
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[tr][td]Team [/td][td]Mat [/td][td]Won [/td][td]Lost [/td][td]Tied [/td][td]NR [/td][td]W/L [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]India [/td][td]29 [/td][td]21 [/td][td]8 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]2.625 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Pakistan [/td][td]29 [/td][td]19 [/td][td]10 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1.9 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]West Indies [/td][td]25 [/td][td]15 [/td][td]9 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]1.666 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]England [/td][td]24 [/td][td]13 [/td][td]11 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1.181 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Australia [/td][td]23 [/td][td]12 [/td][td]11 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1.09 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]New Zealand [/td][td]18 [/td][td]6 [/td][td]11 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]0.545 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Sri Lanka [/td][td]20 [/td][td]2 [/td][td]18 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0.111 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Zimbabwe [/td][td]12 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]11 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]0.09 [/td][/tr]
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Series record featuring 5 or more teams
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[tr][td]Prudential World Cup (in England), 1983 [/td][td]India [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket (in Australia), 1984/85 [/td][td]India [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Austral-Asia Cup (Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka in United Arab Emirates), 1985/86 [/td][td]Pakistan [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Reliance World Cup (in India/Pakistan), 1987/88 [/td][td]Australia [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]MRF World Series (Nehru Cup) (Australia, England, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies in India), 1989/90 [/td][td]Pakistan [/td][/tr]
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Pakistan was growing stronger as 80's went on , no wonder 2 years after Nehru Cup they won 92 WC.
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On this day, the 2 greats of the game shown their class.
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Highlights of the match
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Insane final, was definitely ahead of the time though wicket might be very flat.
Look at names involved unbelievable Star Power.
Haynes Richardson Richards Marshall Ambrose Walsh
Javed Imran Wasim Qadir Salim , All Box office stuff.
Look at names involved unbelievable Star Power.
Haynes Richardson Richards Marshall Ambrose Walsh
Javed Imran Wasim Qadir Salim , All Box office stuff.
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Star Studded tournament, also started the downfall of WI cricket and sir Viv
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India were a medicore team reaching semis in this tournament, 1987,1996 wc and winning so many multi national tournaments from 1985-2000?
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Their GOAT ODI side was finished by 86/87 once their best ODI bowlers Garner and Holding retired.
But they were still a force in ODI cricket until 98/99. Ranked 2nd around Jan. 1999.
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Yeah .. true
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What a legendary finish! Imran leading from the front and Wasim announcing himself in style — pure Pakistan magic.
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Champions Trophy before there was a Champions Trophy
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yes, wonderful win for pak and i remember Wasim hitting that six and me wishing he was indian - i was and still am - fan of pak pace bowling..and in that tournament, Pak was just unstoppable - i remember Salim malik - a realy princely guy - hitting thru the line - on the up or flicking anything short on the leg and middle - he was in his pomp....!
However, there was one tournament before the Nehru cup 1989 which was a Champions trophy before the Champions trophy came into being....
1985 World championship of Cricket - to celebrate the 150 years of founding of Victoria state in Aus....
This was the first time Cricket was beamed live from aus to India - specifically India vs Aus -the group match. I remember waking up early at my cousin's home, switching on the Telly and being amazed at hearing the sound of timber as Kapil got Robbie Kerr, Binny got Graeme wood -clean bowled. That was the first time we in India saw coloured clothing, black sightscreens, stump cam, speaker inside the stumps or in the pitch adn you could hear players talking/sledging , banners in the crowd et all - the whole shebang....
You got to understand to give it a context- till then India were used to the state television which basically had two cameras one at each end behind the bowler and their action replay was like watching thru someone's dandurff, complete with the tv cameras swinging to each and every part of the stadium whenever the batsmen tried an aerial shot, only to realize the catch was taken within the 15 yard circle....any ways i digress....
Then suddenly, India beat England, NZ - in the semis - Kapil hitting hadlee for 4 fours and Vengi getting spurred on in his slipstream and hitting some lordly cover drives....and then India beating Pak in the finals - Sunny G and Javed M tossing the coin without any match ref/over seer and grinnning ear to ear / play acting thereby increasing the palpitations and cardiac rhythms of the telecasting crew....
the yorker from hell - Kapil yorking Qasim umar and you can hear the sound so clearly....and Ravi Shastri winning the champion of Champions award, driving his Audi on the turf of MCG - suddenly Middle class India's aspirations changed with that event....
any ways, that was an event - much under rated but yeah- outside of the WC's this was the precursor to the champions trophy.
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If international cricket paid well at that time our cricketers wouldn't need to break their bodies in county cricket. Imran, Waqar, & Wasim spent their best years being work horses in the county circuit and were all robbed of their best years/prime because of stress fractures & workload related injuries.
Compare this to modern cricketers, for example, after making his debut in FC almost 7 years ago, Haris Rauf has bowled a total of 14K deliveries in his entire career so far. Imran Khan in his 18 year old playing career as a bowler (subtract 3 years when he didn't bowl) bowled 65K+ deliveries in FC cricket alone (100K+ deliveries in his overall test + odi + FC + LOI career).
Rauf needs to play for almost 50 years to bowl as many deliveries as IK, if he keeps up the trend of bowling 14K deliveries in 7 years. Wasim has bowled even more than IK (120K+ balls and a majority of that is in domestic cricket).
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Good post mate.. enjoyed reading
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Deliveries bowled in FC cricket also includes deliveries bowled in Test cricket. Similarly, deliveries bowled in List A cricket also includes deliveries bowled in ODI cricket.
Heavy FC workloads were common in that era.
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One is a Tapeiya T20 bowler.
The other is a test cricket legend.
How could you even mention the two in the same sentence. Its like mentioning Modi and Zardari in the same sentence as political leaders.
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India were champions of World Cup 1983 & World Championship Series 1985.
Pakistan were champions of Nehru Cup 1989 & World Cup 1992.
India had a downfall after 1987 World Cup due to the retirements of Gavaskar, Amarnath, Vishwanath, Binny, Madan Lal.
CrIc_Mystique
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I knew you would enjoy...Whatever our differences - i know you appreciate skill when you see it....
Similarly in the same 1985 WChampionship of cric - Basically that was india's first intro to Wasim.
We young kids - me and my bro's read in Times of india, Indian Express other newspapers or magazies like 'SportsStar' or 'SportsWeek' about Wasim taking 10 wickets in a test in Nz- i think in wellington, but some uncle in our building got this video tape which had pak vs aus game from the same tournament and also other matches, (after the tournament was over) this has wasim taking 5'ver vs aus, there was that unbelievable ball to get Keppler wessels, get allan border hit wicket and also bouncing out another guy in the same match....and also recall vs eng -league match- Wasim taking an unbelievable running catch running half across the MCG.. - standout memories....
Also this was the tournament in which Imran Khan started bowling after beign out for 4-5 years due to stress fractures of shin or knee ( i think i came to knew about words like 'stress fracture' the first time from this tournament or Imran's injury
) and the first league match was india vs pak (which was not telecast live at the time, first live telecast was like i said above - india vs aus 1985)....i remember how every one was glued on radio comm to see how Imran would perform....and he took 3 wickets in his first spell but Mo Azhar and Jimmy Amarnath took india to victory.I stiilll feel if that strees injury had not robbed Imran of about 3-4 years of his prime, he would have set records that would have been unbeatable even in this day and age.
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Great win.
Those were the golden days of cricket. Even bilaterals used to feel lively.
Those were the golden days of cricket. Even bilaterals used to feel lively.
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Malik innings in semi final was special.
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Look at the sparkling contribution of Javed Miandad in that match. 17 runs off 36 balls at an SR of 47.22
Should have been the MOM.
Should have been the MOM.
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