Latif gave the glimpses of how far that PAK team could have stressed had one, just one of the top four had the attitude to fight it out. Each one hit a hundred in that WC and each was at career peak. Also, dew pours like rain during that period of year at Bangalore - just one innings of 75+, from one of the top four, job done.
More than anyone, I actually blame Saeed for that loss. He was one of the biggest adversaries of Indian bowlers, but goofed it the day it was required most. He was playing like king Viv of 1979 final and Azhar threw his last dice - one last over from Srinath. That night, India was one bowler short due to absence of Probhakar - I say actually two as Manoj’s replacement was Kapoor, playing his first or 2nd game. Azhar ran out of this precious 30 overs, of which first 10 went for 85!!!!! I still can recall, he took about 3-4 minutes before giving Srinath one last over, his sixth and that guy Anwar played almost a zero percentage shot - against 6’3” fast medium pacer bringing ball into the left hander, trying to clear him over deep Mid-on standing on edge of inner circle, probably will work once out of 100 attempts. Add to that, the way Srinath cuts the new ball away from lefties and the guy standing at mid-on was another 6’3” ish guy Anil Kumble - it was almost zero percent shot.
Many PAK/IND fans say that the Indian team of 1990s were selfish, which may be true to a little extent but bottom line is that the team collectively was just not good enough, always had fallen behind nine ball at tough contest. On contrary I wished had this guy Anwar could be a little selfish, played for own scores!!! He was selfish, extremely selfish, BUT guy used that selfishness for his comfort - bunked training, fitness drills and obviously fielding - I wanted him to be mean & selfish for his runS. We were watching the game in a group and when he reached like 35 of 23, one of the Uber PAK fan (Behari origin) was screaming .... smack, blast ...teach the mala*ns cricket - I just calmed him down and asked him to pray that Saeed plays an utmost selfish innings for his hundred, PAK will win inside 48 overs .... As usual, the response - PAK doesn’t need to bat carefully against these tundlars; something hardly changes...... next over Saeed got out & the guy kept on doing same ..... this time with Sohail. I actually knew, with Saeed, game was over.
The worst PAK game that I have seen and it’ll need some efforts to beat it - in fact, I don’t see PAK entering WC as among favourites in foreseeable future, hence such stage might not come.
I have too many of those.
I cried that night, couldn't take it & still haunts to some extent, stopped watching cricket for sometime after that and came out of retirement to watch 2011 WC 
