Asia Cup is around the corner and India will be facing Pakistan in the second match of the Asia Cup in UAE, World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev while taking to Pakistan bowler Wasim Akram relived about the Ind vs Pak match where India lost the match to Pakistan, the Indian players suffered a lot of emotional pain and the players had the impact of this game for almost four years says Former skipper Kapil Dev.
Wasim Akram starts the conversation by saying “That famous game, where you (India) were on course to score 270. But then, I got three quick wickets and you eventually scored 245.”
Then Kapil started talking about the final over “We thought we should have 12-13 runs to defend in the last over of the match.
When asked about selecting Chetan to bowl the last over, Kapil said that “When the last overcame, we went to Chetan. To this day, I still feel it wasn’t his mistake. They needed 4 runs on the last ball and we decided that it would be a low Yorker. There was no other alternative. He tried his best, we all tried. It turned out to be a low full-toss. Miandad kept his back foot intact and connected it. Even when we remember that today, we can’t sleep. That defeat crushed the whole side’s confidence for the next four years. It was very difficult to make a comeback from there.”
This became one of the matches where Pakistan dramatically won against India in the 1986 period and the last ball boundary affected so much on the Indian players that the players felt the effect of this loss for almost four years.
Kapil dev hopes that his countrymen don’t face a similar kind of situation in the future, and tell the Indian side not to underestimate the level of other teams.
