Bowling spells of Test cricket that can never be forgotten
Bowling spells of Test cricket that can never be forgotten
Bowlers come and go ... That means he can change the match pattern with just a few balls and who can forget such a bowling?
In Test cricket, a few spells of Pakistani fast bowlers have a lot of fame in which they scatter the rival's batting line into just a few balls.
Sarfraz Nawaz v Australia, Melbourne Sun 1978
Surf Nawaz's bowling test against Australia in Melbourne is considered one of the most memorable bowling spells in cricket history.
Australia had a 382-run target for the win. The fourth-wicket partnership between Alan Border and Kim Hughes made 177 for 30, with the Australian team making 305 for three.
But with a 77-run win, Sarfraz Nawaz took just 33 runs off 7 balls to win the match and gave Pakistan a 71-run victory.
Sarfraz Nawaz had bowled to Dave Watmore and Andrew Haldach, but the original play started when Alan Border came out.
Australia were hoping for a win in the form of Graeme Wood and Peter Sleep, but after being dismissed for 84, one batsman would be trapped in the swing bowling of Sarfraz Nawaz.
Surf Nawaz's bowling test against Australia in Melbourne is considered one of the most memorable bowling spells in cricket history.
Sarfraz Nawaz took 9 wickets for 86 runs in the innings, which was the best bowling in Test cricket at that time. In 1987, Abdul Qadir made his name for 56 wickets for 56.
SIKANDAR Bakht vs. India, Delhi, 1979
Sikandar Bakht took 8 wickets in the first innings of the Delhi Test, which resulted in the Indian team being dismissed for only 126 runs.
This performance of Alexander Bakht was extraordinary in this regard as Imran Khan burst into the dressing room and in such a case, Alexander alone controlled the experienced batsmen in the Indian betting line.
Sikandar Bakht recalls the match, "No wicket fell on 19 runs but 5 wickets fell for 37 runs, out of which I got out Chetan Chauhan, Vengsarkar Gavaskar and Roger Boney. Vishwanath was run out but he was also such that I could not catch Gavaskar on my ball and the ball went into my wicket.
Sikandar Bakht took 8 wickets in the first innings of the Delhi Test, which resulted in the Indian team being dismissed for only 126 runs.
"Yash Pal Sharma was on one end but I also dropped Syed Kurmani, Kapil Dev and Karson Ghauri till the game ended the next day. Dilip Doshi's wicket could not come to my hands which was taken by Asif Iqbal the next day.
Sikandar Bakht says, "For my performance, former captain Mansour Ali Khan Pataudi and Lala Amarnath greeted me outside the Pakistani team's dressing room while Sunil Gavaskar also came and said to me, 'Seek well bowled.'
Sikandar Bakht says that not only these cricketers but Bollywood personalities also praised his performance, including Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan.
The medal that was made by actor Puran exclusively for Alexander Bakht
When I arrived at the hotel, I knocked on my room and saw a hotel employee standing for the cake that actor Manoj Kumar had sent while actor Paran was so happy that he had sent me a medal specially prepared. It was listed on 'Bid Blessing Frame Pran'.
Sikandar Bakht relates one incident in particular that the team's bus was passing through a newspaper office near Feroz Shah Kotla Ground.
'I saw from the window of the bus that Kapil Dev's first innings on the board from the big office was glowing five wickets. The next day I got eight wickets so I thought my name would be on this board too. When the bus passed there, I looked at the board with a great astonishment, but I was disappointed because my name and performance were both missing. '
Imran Khan v. India, Karachi, 1982
Regarding the Indian team visiting Pakistan in 1982, Maharaja Fateh Singh Gaikwad had proudly said that the batting line is up to the eleventh player to which he was told by wicketkeeper Wasim Bari that you did not have Imran Khan. See, even if you have fifteen, they will still take them all out.
On the third day of the Karachi Test, Imran Khan's stormy bowling took off so fast that the Indian team's batting spread like a leaf.
On the third day of the Karachi Test, Imran Khan's stormy bowling took off so fast that it scattered the Indian team's batting like leaves.
Gavaskar and Vengsarkar had set up a 74-run partnership that Gavaskar bowled on Imran Khan's swing. Vishwanath made the mistake of dropping the ball and took a wicket on an extremely unusual swing.
It was also Imran Khan's 200th wicket in Test cricket. Mahendra Amarnath Sandeep Patil and Kapil Dev also did not break the pace of Imran Khan's swinging balls, which took 5 wickets for 25 balls in this spell with just 3 runs.
In this innings, Imran Khan took 8 wickets for 60 runs and only 79 runs in the match.
Shoaib Akhtar vs. Australia, Colombo Sun 2002
The first Test of the Test series between Pakistan and Australia was played in Colombo and the remaining two Tests in Sharjah.
In the second innings of the Colombo Test, when Shoaib Akhtar came to bowl in the fifth over, Australia's score was 74 for one.
In the second innings of the Colombo Test, Shoaib Akhtar bowled in the fifth over when Australia scored 74 runs on a wicket.
In this one over, Shoaib Akhtar bowled Ricky Ponting and Mark Waugh on consecutive balls. Steve Waugh hatched the ball out of the truck but he soon got LBW on the ball.
In the next over, Adam Gilchrist struck on the first ball but Shoaib Akhtar bowled him on the last ball. Shane Warne was bowled without any runs in the next over.
Shoaib Akhtar took 5 wickets for only 15 balls in this spell
Bowlers come and go ... That means he can change the match pattern with just a few balls and who can forget such a bowling?
In Test cricket, a few spells of Pakistani fast bowlers have a lot of fame in which they scatter the rival's batting line into just a few balls.
Sarfraz Nawaz v Australia, Melbourne Sun 1978
Surf Nawaz's bowling test against Australia in Melbourne is considered one of the most memorable bowling spells in cricket history.
Australia had a 382-run target for the win. The fourth-wicket partnership between Alan Border and Kim Hughes made 177 for 30, with the Australian team making 305 for three.
But with a 77-run win, Sarfraz Nawaz took just 33 runs off 7 balls to win the match and gave Pakistan a 71-run victory.
Sarfraz Nawaz had bowled to Dave Watmore and Andrew Haldach, but the original play started when Alan Border came out.
Australia were hoping for a win in the form of Graeme Wood and Peter Sleep, but after being dismissed for 84, one batsman would be trapped in the swing bowling of Sarfraz Nawaz.
Surf Nawaz's bowling test against Australia in Melbourne is considered one of the most memorable bowling spells in cricket history.
Sarfraz Nawaz took 9 wickets for 86 runs in the innings, which was the best bowling in Test cricket at that time. In 1987, Abdul Qadir made his name for 56 wickets for 56.
SIKANDAR Bakht vs. India, Delhi, 1979
Sikandar Bakht took 8 wickets in the first innings of the Delhi Test, which resulted in the Indian team being dismissed for only 126 runs.
This performance of Alexander Bakht was extraordinary in this regard as Imran Khan burst into the dressing room and in such a case, Alexander alone controlled the experienced batsmen in the Indian betting line.
Sikandar Bakht recalls the match, "No wicket fell on 19 runs but 5 wickets fell for 37 runs, out of which I got out Chetan Chauhan, Vengsarkar Gavaskar and Roger Boney. Vishwanath was run out but he was also such that I could not catch Gavaskar on my ball and the ball went into my wicket.
Sikandar Bakht took 8 wickets in the first innings of the Delhi Test, which resulted in the Indian team being dismissed for only 126 runs.
"Yash Pal Sharma was on one end but I also dropped Syed Kurmani, Kapil Dev and Karson Ghauri till the game ended the next day. Dilip Doshi's wicket could not come to my hands which was taken by Asif Iqbal the next day.
Sikandar Bakht says, "For my performance, former captain Mansour Ali Khan Pataudi and Lala Amarnath greeted me outside the Pakistani team's dressing room while Sunil Gavaskar also came and said to me, 'Seek well bowled.'
Sikandar Bakht says that not only these cricketers but Bollywood personalities also praised his performance, including Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan.
The medal that was made by actor Puran exclusively for Alexander Bakht
When I arrived at the hotel, I knocked on my room and saw a hotel employee standing for the cake that actor Manoj Kumar had sent while actor Paran was so happy that he had sent me a medal specially prepared. It was listed on 'Bid Blessing Frame Pran'.
Sikandar Bakht relates one incident in particular that the team's bus was passing through a newspaper office near Feroz Shah Kotla Ground.
'I saw from the window of the bus that Kapil Dev's first innings on the board from the big office was glowing five wickets. The next day I got eight wickets so I thought my name would be on this board too. When the bus passed there, I looked at the board with a great astonishment, but I was disappointed because my name and performance were both missing. '
Imran Khan v. India, Karachi, 1982
Regarding the Indian team visiting Pakistan in 1982, Maharaja Fateh Singh Gaikwad had proudly said that the batting line is up to the eleventh player to which he was told by wicketkeeper Wasim Bari that you did not have Imran Khan. See, even if you have fifteen, they will still take them all out.
On the third day of the Karachi Test, Imran Khan's stormy bowling took off so fast that the Indian team's batting spread like a leaf.
On the third day of the Karachi Test, Imran Khan's stormy bowling took off so fast that it scattered the Indian team's batting like leaves.
Gavaskar and Vengsarkar had set up a 74-run partnership that Gavaskar bowled on Imran Khan's swing. Vishwanath made the mistake of dropping the ball and took a wicket on an extremely unusual swing.
It was also Imran Khan's 200th wicket in Test cricket. Mahendra Amarnath Sandeep Patil and Kapil Dev also did not break the pace of Imran Khan's swinging balls, which took 5 wickets for 25 balls in this spell with just 3 runs.
In this innings, Imran Khan took 8 wickets for 60 runs and only 79 runs in the match.
Shoaib Akhtar vs. Australia, Colombo Sun 2002
The first Test of the Test series between Pakistan and Australia was played in Colombo and the remaining two Tests in Sharjah.
In the second innings of the Colombo Test, when Shoaib Akhtar came to bowl in the fifth over, Australia's score was 74 for one.
In the second innings of the Colombo Test, Shoaib Akhtar bowled in the fifth over when Australia scored 74 runs on a wicket.
In this one over, Shoaib Akhtar bowled Ricky Ponting and Mark Waugh on consecutive balls. Steve Waugh hatched the ball out of the truck but he soon got LBW on the ball.
In the next over, Adam Gilchrist struck on the first ball but Shoaib Akhtar bowled him on the last ball. Shane Warne was bowled without any runs in the next over.
Shoaib Akhtar took 5 wickets for only 15 balls in this spell
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