When Smith didn’t do a Shakib!
Updated On: 09 November, 2023 07:50 AM IST | Mumbai | Clayton Murzello
Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews became the first cricketer in 146 years of international cricket to be Timed Out. This could have happened in Newlands, Cape Town, in 2007 had the then South Africa captain appealed for a verdict against India’s senior pro Sourav Ganguly
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SA cricket captain Graeme Smith (left) and India’s Sourav Ganguly address the press after a practice session in Kanpur on November 19, 2004. Representation pic/AFP
Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan winning his Timed Out appeal against Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews in Monday’s World Cup game at the Kotla in New Delhi took me back to January 5, 2007. Towards the end of December 2006, I believed the Indian cricket team would end up with an unprecedented Test series win in South Africa. That belief was based on the fact that they had beaten the hosts in the opening Test of the three-match series in Johannesburg— the Test in which Sourav Ganguly made his comeback in the Greg Chappell era and the game in which S Sreesanth underlined how massively talented and skilled he was as a seam bowler. They contributed in no small measure to India’s first-ever Test win in the Rainbow Nation, after first touring there in 1992-93.
India succumbing to defeat in the next Test at Durban notwithstanding, I sensed Rahul Dravid’s men could be victors in the final Test at Cape Town. I had been to South Africa earlier in the month and watched India’s ODI side stumble match after match for a 0-4 series loss.
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