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Five days of see-saw thrill would follow, Rahul Dravid ultimately taking India to a first win in Australia for 23 years.
It was such a strange sight on a cricket field. The DJ was playing a Coldplay song between overs. Abuse from the crowd. I wanted to bowl fast, as fast as I could. Sourav da told me that morning I was bowling first change, but as soon as we were out there he tossed me the ball. He had so much belief. He could inspire you to do anything.
His first wicket in Test cricket the only one he would take in the match was one of the best opening batsmen of the era. He thought I was a kid.
Fronting up to me, coming down the pitch, puffing his chest out. If someone fingers me he might just get it twisted off. Another cherub, Parthiv, snaffles the catch. The seniors were really good. Laxman bhai is one of the nicest people in cricket. Rahul Dravid, everyone was helpful. Ganguly was the best, completely bindaas [cool]. He would tell me to go out and bowl without any worry, any fear. I remember once I was sitting after a net session. A fan took a photograph of me and he had come back with a print.
Concentrate on cricket! But he was a great guy. The next day he took me out to dinner. Maybe he felt bad. T he Pathan brothers spoke with me again in the grounds of Motibaug Cricket Club, where the Baroda Ranji team convenes for practice on weekdays at 3pm. The golf course and the Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum are in the vicinity. All this land was once part of the Laxmi Vilas Palace complex, a acre oasis plumb in the centre of this urban dustscape.
The palace itself is a stunning Indo-Saracenic structure, laid out like an English country manor, completed in by the Gaekwad at the time. It is a sweltering afternoon. I find cover by a water cooler, where chairs have been placed beneath a thick-trunked young banyan. Twelve bottle-green nets face each other, though only six are being used in earnest. The net directly behind me has a young man standing on a stool feeding a bowling machine as a friend practises straight drives.
Once in a while a ball will skirt along the grass and rebound off the banyan with a resounding knock, suddenly whizzing past my shins or nose. I try not to flinch. Maybe you can ask him" Irfan Pathan.
After his turn at bat, Yusuf collapses into the chair next to me. He removes his pads and other padding and tosses each into a giant strolley cricket bag. Rather tentatively - he's built like a boulder - I ask him something that I have been wondering about.
What was it like in the early years, trying to establish himself as a cricketer while his younger brother had already exploded into cricket-world stardom? And then for the national team. But our coach, Mehndi Sheikh, encouraged both of us. I didn't make big goals. I just played every match I could. Kept working without thinking of results. Lots of club games. Sometimes my club would send me for corporate matches.
Relatives would come to the house, asking, 'Irfan kaisa hain? Irfan has finished his own net session now and finds himself a chair, nodding at the memory. He predicted I would play in the World Cup. People laughed. No one believed him. But that year I had a very good season in Ranji and the Deodhar trophy. After that I began to believe. Sandhu has good memories of working with Yusuf. It reminded me of Sandeep Patil.
Though Yusuf had this reputation of big hitting, he wasn't taken seriously as a batsman. He would play a silly shot and get out. I taught him shot selection. Of recognising the difference between a good and bad ball and treating them differently.
He was a good learner, always wanting to improve. We did video analysis of his bowling and figured out his grip was wrong. I shortened his run-up, insisted he bowl slower. Once his action became more balanced, he could actually turn the ball. I wanted to motivate them both at the same time. But it was true.
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