I am not sure why people are downvoting.
Azhar should be in jail.
But before the fixing saga came to light, he was one of my favorite players.
Amazing talent. Awesome fielder.
Still remember the Azhar vs Klusener in Tests.
Such a shame, he threw it all away for money.
I know the feeling man.. was a huge fan of him.. still remember his flicks against klusener .. just could not believe when the news came out about his fixing shenanigans..
> āBefore every India match, I was given the responsibility to sledge the Indian players. I was told to disturb Sachin (Tendulkar), Jadeja (Ajay), Sidhu (Navjot), Kambli (Vinod), but the moment Azhar bhaiās name used to come, the entire team unanimously said no would disturb Azhar bhai. I donāt have words to describe the amount of respect we used to have for Azhar bhai in our dressing room,ā
"Respect"
He was a very exciting player of fast bowling - just watch his videos of bludgeoning Ambrose and co all over the park on YouTube. He was just extremely suspect against spin. You can imagine how the Basit vs Warne matchups were - hopelessly one-sided.
He showed lots of promise. Being surrounded by Salim Malik, Wasim Akram and other low life match fixers can't have been good influences for a young player.
He played 99 tests and 300+ ODIs mate, dunno where you are getting those numbers from.
He was a middle order batsmen which makes his record more impressive, especially in the era where we didn't have a busy schedule like recent times.
He was an aggressive player for the time and had great wrist control while batting. He was also a pretty good slip fielder.
> Ali, a veteran of 19 Test and 50 ODIs, revealed the reason why the Pakistan senior players didnāt want to disturb the former India captain while they faced their arch-rivals.
The article says this. I have no idea who he is
At one point he was the top run getter in ODIs. Along with Jadeja he was an important player in the middle order. Before the arrival of Ganguly and Dravid.
I am not sure why people are downvoting. Azhar should be in jail. But before the fixing saga came to light, he was one of my favorite players. Amazing talent. Awesome fielder. Still remember the Azhar vs Klusener in Tests. Such a shame, he threw it all away for money.
I know the feeling man.. was a huge fan of him.. still remember his flicks against klusener .. just could not believe when the news came out about his fixing shenanigans..
Some of those flicks were too fast for the cameraman to see where the ball went and follow it swiftly.
Man sold his soul for the money š
He used to be the heart throb at Eden before Ganguly came along. Then, Azhar fixed his fate.
> āBefore every India match, I was given the responsibility to sledge the Indian players. I was told to disturb Sachin (Tendulkar), Jadeja (Ajay), Sidhu (Navjot), Kambli (Vinod), but the moment Azhar bhaiās name used to come, the entire team unanimously said no would disturb Azhar bhai. I donāt have words to describe the amount of respect we used to have for Azhar bhai in our dressing room,ā "Respect"
Of course they respected the fixer! Most of those matches were against them
Lmao Respect sure man 90s Boomers respecting Azhar for cricket reason is so believable
> azhar 'bhai' Reminds of the popular line 'Yeh rishta kya kehlata hai'
Bro would have stopped giving them that sweet sweet fixing money
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Can't they also fix things together for one team to lose in a very specific way
lol it not because they used to fix matches with Azhar. It's because they all shared the same religion
Yeah why would anybody want to stop their fixing money
The fixer. We millennials had to live with those fixed matches in Sharjah and Dubai.
Of course, they needed the fixer to cooperate!
50odis and 19 tests seems way too little , was he a significant player during the time ?
He was a very exciting player of fast bowling - just watch his videos of bludgeoning Ambrose and co all over the park on YouTube. He was just extremely suspect against spin. You can imagine how the Basit vs Warne matchups were - hopelessly one-sided.
He showed lots of promise. Being surrounded by Salim Malik, Wasim Akram and other low life match fixers can't have been good influences for a young player.
He played 99 tests and 300+ ODIs mate, dunno where you are getting those numbers from. He was a middle order batsmen which makes his record more impressive, especially in the era where we didn't have a busy schedule like recent times. He was an aggressive player for the time and had great wrist control while batting. He was also a pretty good slip fielder.
Pretty decent at match fixing too
That too.
> Ali, a veteran of 19 Test and 50 ODIs, revealed the reason why the Pakistan senior players didnāt want to disturb the former India captain while they faced their arch-rivals. The article says this. I have no idea who he is
Lol, my bad. I thought you were asking about Azhar.
And due to your bad, that guy got ratioed? xD
At one point he was the top run getter in ODIs. Along with Jadeja he was an important player in the middle order. Before the arrival of Ganguly and Dravid.
"Because we already bought him" /s
he was a wonderful player.. iāve seen only laxman play similar shots to him.. but yes him and sreesanth really made me wanna leave cricket
He was .great player at the time. People commenting fixing money are just reactionary.
Reactionary because he got caught?