Farhad
21st August 2005, 11:21
I met him yesterday in the Players' lounge in Gaddafi Stadium after he got out for 85 and talked about the incident which left him with a fine levied by PCB. He told me he had just lobbed the ball back to Murali (Tariq Mehmood) football-style but the ball rolled towards the umpire rather. That was all a misunderstanding. To top it all, he talked to the umpire in private and the latter fully understood and accepted his reasoning but somehow later on in the open refused to elaborate on that point and agreed that the batsman should be punished.
Anyhow, he is a humble and nice fellow..Shahid Yousuf and has taken the pronouncement in his stride....won't be appealing against it he says.
Mohammad Irshad told me Shahid had hit 20 boundaries in his 85...something which made us all stagger....but as it transpired Irshad was exaggerating a bit...Shahid's innings contained 16 boundaries.:D
Anyhow, he is a humble and nice fellow..Shahid Yousuf and has taken the pronouncement in his stride....won't be appealing against it he says.
Mohammad Irshad told me Shahid had hit 20 boundaries in his 85...something which made us all stagger....but as it transpired Irshad was exaggerating a bit...Shahid's innings contained 16 boundaries.:D