Inzamam-ul-Haq recalls Sunil Gavaskar shunning Indo-Pak rivalry for giving batting advice

Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has credited India's batting legend Sunil Gavaskar in helped him overcome his weakness against short-pitched deliveries. While talking about episode on his YouTube channel, Inzamam-ul-Haq said that he was clueless about English pitches when England toured England in 1992 and found short-pitched deliveries hard to negotiate.

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Inzamam-ul-Haq on how Sunil Gavaskar helped him negotiate short pitch bowling 

Pakistan went to England after winning 1992 World Cup under captaincy of former captain and current Prime Minister Imran Khan and Inzamam-ul-Haq said that he didn’t have any idea about playing on England pitches. He said that he was going through a bad patch due to his inability to play short-pitched deliveries. Inzamam-ul-Haq furr revealed that it was during that tour that he got a chance to meet Sunil Gavaskar during a charity game where he spoke about his problem.

Recalling his meeting with Gavaskar, Inzamam said that during charity match, he asked for tips to deal with short deliveries. In his reply, 'Little Master' just asked him to stop thinking about short-pitch balls or bouncers because thinking about that will get him trapped. He furr said that Gavaskar told him that when bowler would deliver ball he would automatically understand. Inzamam-ul-Haq, in video, said that he implemented Sunil Gavaskar’s advise during net practice and soon his mindset changed, which really helped him from 1992 till time he retired. 

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While praising Sunil Gavaskar, Inzamam spoke about his wish of watching Indian legend batting live in stadium and said that re were several great players in Gavaskar's era as well, naming likes of Javed Miandad, Viv Richards, Garry Sobers and Don Bradman but ne of m could reach 10,000-run mark in Tests unlike former India captain, making him special.

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Inzamam-ul-Haq showers praise on Sachin Tendulkar's bowling 

Inzamam-ul-Haq himself fell short of Javed Miandad's initial Pakistan record of most number of Test runs at time of his retirement in 2007. However, he had lot of positive interactions with or Indian cricketers off field as well, although he was intense on field.

Back in February, Inzamam ul Haq has said that India cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar troubled him more as a bowler than likes of Australian great Shane Warne. While speaking on his YouTube channel, Inzamam said that Sachin Tendulkar's bowling abilities were ar proof of his genius.

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He said that Tendulkar was a genius cricketer who could bowl leg-spin, off-spin and medium pace. He said that he faced many great leg-spinners and never had troubles in reading ir googlies but it was only Tendulkar who troubled him and got him out many times.

(IM: INZAMAM-UL-HA/ YOUTUBE / BCCI)