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| Mohammed Shami |
The place was Australia's Perth City and the World Champion of that time, India was about to encounter the West Indies.
Two teams of matches arrived at Perth's Namkeen Waka Stadium to practice nets at different times.
Those who landed before Team India's bus were Suresh Raina, Shikhar Dhawan, and Ravindra Jadeja, and all had gulal packets in their hands.
In the end, Mohammed Shami was the one who had a white Gulzar and Abir on his forehead, and he smiled at the nets and got engaged in bowling.
India's last match was from the UAE, who could not play Shami and this time it was early to prove themselves.
During the nets, I asked, "Fit feeling, Shami brother?".
Dhoni was batting on the nets Shami took a full run up and put Dhoni in a yorker who went straight to Dhoni's lower pad. Ravi Shastri, standing behind, shook his head and appreciated the ball.
Before the Nets ended, Mohammed Shami talked to me, "Holi is a day.
Come down to prove yourself
Shami had reason to ask questions. Before that World Cup in 2014, Shami took 10 wickets in the ODI series against the West Indies in 2014 and he was also selected for the Sri Lanka series after that. But suddenly, Dhawal Kulkarni was included in the team because Shami had a thumb in his thumb.
Baharal, March 6, 2014, in the match played at Waka, India put West Indies on just 182 in 44 overs. While four wickets, the Indian batsmen completed the target in the 40th over.
Mohammed Shami who was Man of the Match, who hit two fours in eight overs and three wickets shocks. It included Smith, Chris Gayle and captain Darren Sammy.
In the first match of that World Cup, Shami did something similar against Pakistan. In the match played at Sir Don Bradman's City Adelaide, the four Pakistani batsmen who had returned the pavilion to Shami included Yunus Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi and Wahab Riaz.
In that tournament, Shami had just come down to prove himself.
Just like in the ongoing World Cup in England, it was found in 2019 when Shami did not get to the place in the playing eleven in the first four matches of India.
But in the match against Afghanistan, he took a hat-trick in the last over and not only brought India out of the mouth of defeat but also saved credence.
According to the former editor of AAP Kuldeep Lal, "The World Cup for India has started with this final over and the result is going to increase further."
Earlier, in any World Cup, the only hat-trick by India was taken by Chetan Sharma and Chetan Sharma sent his congratulations on Shami's achievement.
Beginning
Mohammed Shami, living in western Uttar Pradesh, started playing cricket in Amaroha's fields since his early childhood like his brothers.
Cricket practice started with a cement pitch between his village, his farm of Alinagar Sahaspur.
Farmer father Tausif Ahmed was himself a lover of cricket and also recognized the skills of children.
He had insisted that Shami would play cricket in the Cricket Academy Badruddin Academy in Moradabad.
From then on, Mohammed Shami looked back and saw only when his father and brother standing at the station were shouting Shami for goodbye to Kolkata.
When Shami was unable to select the junior cricket team of Uttar Pradesh, then coach Badruddin planned to play him by sending him to Kolkata.
After playing cricket for Dalhousie and Town Club for years, Shami got a place in the Bengal Under-22 team.
A close friend of the family told on condition of anonymity that after playing for the team, when Shami Amroha had come, one evening of winter he had said while drinking ginger tea, "If Indian selectors told me yesterday morning, Nets will also be successful if I let them a bowl. "
Actually, Shami did not even realize that his time is about to change.
After playing Ranji in 2010, he was selected for Team India in 2013.
Shami had said about this, "In the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, Sourav Ganguly got the opportunity to bowl and learn a lot, it was the first round of IPL and national and international batsmen got opportunities to bowl fast. Were going. "
In the meantime, Shami got started scoring wickets as he came in the first one-day and then the Test team. Shami was at his peak during the Test matches that took place in Australia in the 2015 World Cup.
However, after India's defeat in the World Cup semi-finals, they had exposed the fact that there was some injury in their leg. Those who covered the team had also realized this.
India and host Australia were to be semi-finals in Sydney. One day before, during the nets in SCG, Mohammed Shami threw nearly a dozen balls. At that time the bowling coach of the Indian team reached India Arun and there was talk for about five minutes. Shami then reduced his run-up in the nets and did not participate in the fielding drill after bowling.
The Week Magazine's cricket correspondent Niru Bhatia was present at the time of the World Cup.
During the nets I talked to them about Shami and Arun's discussions.
Niru Bhatia said, "Shami's last year's injury could not be fully repaired, that the World Cup had come, feeding him was a calculating risk that has been successful till now. Maybe Shami will not be there too. "
In the semi-final played the next day, Australia first scored 300 runs and Mohammed Shami did not get a single wicket in his ten overs and also needed 68 runs.
dispute
Till the year 2018, Mohammed Shami, the passion of cricket and the successes of success, only a hindrance remained.
Shami also started to overcome this, that suddenly, an earthquake came in his private life.
In March 2018, wife Hussein, who accused her of domestic violence, attempted murder and rape, and Kolkata police filed an FIR against Shami.
Mohammed Shami tweeted all these accusations wrong, "Any news that is going on about me is all wrong and there is a conspiracy by which I can be defamed and my game can be degraded".
Between all this Shami's wife had made another serious allegation, match-fixing. The result was that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) ousted Mohammed Shami from the contract for the team players and the inquiry started.
BCCI Anti-Corruption Unit found Shami guilty of match-fixing and re-signed Shami.
But in these so many stories spread like fire.
In the village of Mohamed Shami in Amroha, people were still in this situation and even today.
The relative Mumtaz (name renamed) said, "I do not believe how things get worse, both used to come here often and laugh, daughter is also very sweet, Shami had also taken a farm in the name of his wife. Look, what happens next? ".
The dispute between Shami and his wife has not been settled yet.
But Shami's activities did not end there. To get a place in the Indian team, every player has to go through a fitness test named Yo-Yo.
Shami got out of the team in the Test match against Afghanistan, after he failed in that Test only three months after his domestic dispute.
If Shami's people believed in the people, it was probably the last shock, and Shami Bhai decided that the same practice would be started again as soon as it was for the first time in the team to come in 2013.
Shami also took help from his early coach Badruddin and started focusing on fitness.
In October, only in 2018, the team had to make a comeback. Due to good bowling in the home series against the West Indies, Mohammed Shami got a place in Team India in New Zealand and Australia in January this year.
Although he was not given the first three matches of India in the World Cup in England, according to a senior journalist covering the team, "If Shami's fastballs do not get to play in English conditions, then Indian batsmen Match practice will not be as good as it seems. "
Recently, Shami has also revealed that he has also stopped eating bread and sweet food to improve his fitness, due to which he has also lost his weight earlier.
Mohammed Shami, fond of eating Mughlai, told me in a team India hotel in Adelaide a few years ago, "The Ferry Tour is a very good opportunity to improve your game. Just eat a little problem. Even then it does not go. "
Since then, a lot has changed in Mohammed Shami's life. There was one thing that was still there and it is still today.
Among the seven Indian cricketers, Dhoni, Kohli, Rohit Sharma is also included in Shami who also played the 2015 World Cup and are also playing 2019.
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