don't worry, i know it's saturday...i'm talking about the talk show hosted by farhan akhtar and it's about the last episode in which the guest was our very own dada!
yes, sourav ganguly was the guest yesterday and there was this interesting anecdote dada shared with us...the talk drifted to the instincts captain go by sometimes, specially about a player...though the wording may not be the same but i will try to catch the essence...
dada said...
i won't name the player...once before going on the south africa tour i was sitting with selectors to select the team and i was insisting on 'this' player...selectors told me why you want to select this player...he doesn't even know how to play pace bowling...very weak against short pitch stuff...won't be able to handle seam bowling in south africa...his career will be finished if we select him...let him go to hongkong super sixes...
but i remained adamant on selecting this player...they eventually selected the player and he scored century on debut there...
i think the player dada talked about is our own viru and this is the match he was referring to...
no wonder that viru still speaks highly of him...some times out of turn which threatened in ending his career durning the chappell regime...
what say?
update:
here's the video
...and you can watch full episode here...its worth seeing it...
(tip: see from part 4 onwards...)
3 comments:
Dada's started shooting from the hip, in today's HT, his take on MSD - should promote himself up the order. Instead, MSD will further drop himself down the order.
Surely Sehwag.. a lot of the players speak highly of Dada - Sehwag, Bhajji, Zaheer.. he backed them when not many others did...
I thought of Praveen Amre immediately, but yeah, most likely Sehwag.
Interesting...
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