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For those of us who are old enough to remember that day in 1986, six of Javed Miandad’s last ball from the match from Chetan Sharma remained in the mind. Pakistan needs four rounds to win the Australian Cup. Miandad properly suspected that Sharma would try to replace Yorker, so he took a little attitude in front of the fold, so that changing Yorker’s efforts into a good full throw that could be raised above the middle goal limit.
Sharma, who is now the Head of the BCCI Selection Committee, may have gained a lot of satisfaction on Sunday when in the Indian-Pakistan Asian Cup match, Pandya Hoicked Hoicked Mohammad Nawaz in the same way to win the match.
Pandya, like Miandad, does not recognize fear. He represents a new type of Indian cricket whose defeat is not a choice. Only five weeks ago, he and Rishabh Pant, both of them were born years after Sharma Bowled who failed Yorker, won the last day of the international-and-British series at Old Trafford after all seemed lost for India with four wickets away quickly.
It will be completely dishonest to claim that India-Pakistan matches are only cricket games. We have fought four wars and Pakistan have sponsored terrorism and low intensity war in India for decades. Every time both teams play with each other, there is a higher pressure on cricket than when they play Australia or Western Indies. So six Pandya brought extra meaning, as Miandad did. Hotstar reported the highest viewers ever for the cricket match and there was a wild celebration by Indians around the world when their team won.
But the most popular tweet comes from an Afghanistan. When I wrote this, 20 hours after the tweet was posted, it was liked by more than 73,000 people and meretweet about 12,000 times. Tweet, from Yousafzai Anayat, who claims to be “Human Rights Defender and Women’s Rights Activists”, reads: Congratulations to all our brothers. Indians and Afghanistan. We Afghan people celebrate this victory with or (sic) friends Indian State. “This has a short video about an Afghan man who is happy to kiss TV image Pandya as he walks back after victory.
I visited Kabul in 2002, a few months after the US and its allies had released Afghanistan from the Taliban. Very astonishing to see the love possessed by Afghanists for Indians. India contributes greatly in cash and is good to rebuild the country and is seen as the most trustworthy Afghanistan friend. When my colleague and I was surprised by the service that was sour in a restaurant that we visited for lunch and complained to the owner, he told us roughly, “There is no service for the Pakistani people.” But we are Indians, we protest. The attitude of every restaurant staff changes instantly. “Zero service for Pakistan and multiple prices,” we were told. ‘Indians, full service, and half price.’ Only after many insistence on our side, the owner receives full payments on our bills.
The Taliban has banned music during their regressive reign. Now every Kabul Street – and every taxi we drive – the songs are blared from Hindi films. Cinema Halls has been opened again after years of years, and of course Hindi films screened there. Every time someone knows that we are Indian, they will shake our hands, or happily shout: ‘Shilpa Shetty! Amitabh Bachchan! ‘The most warm -up moment for me was when I walked at school right when the class ended, and dozens of little girls, their faces glow happily, chatting happily, ran out on the way home. I was afraid that even imagined what the situation of the girls – and their daughter – was in Afghanistan today. What, even in the early 1980s, one of the most liberal and progressive societies in the Muslim world, was discharged back to the dark.
