Farewell Mushie
With Mushtaq Ahmed calling time on his first-class career, his Sussex team-mate Robin Martin-Jenkins recalls their first encounter on a cricket pitch:
Cricinfo
25-Feb-2013
With Mushtaq Ahmed calling time on his first-class career, his Sussex team-mate Robin Martin-Jenkins recalls their first encounter on a cricket pitch:
A fizzing legspinner ripped past my forward prod first ball. I can still clearly recall that extraordinary sound as the seam ripped through the air ... I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw it (the next ball) was short and wide outside the off stump. I thought they said this guy was a genius? As I shaped to cut and get off the mark with a glorious four past point, the ball dipped and ripped back past my back foot. I think my bat was still at the top of its back-lift, MCC coaching book style, when the googly cannoned into middle stump.
Read the full post in the Wisden Cricketer.