Fleming recalls back-from-dead tales
Australia's Damien Fleming was involved in probably two of the most famous death overs in World Cup history, in 1996 and 1999
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
Australia's Damien Fleming was involved in probably two of the most famous death overs in World Cup history, in 1996 and 1999. He recounts those nerve-wracking moments to Aditya Iyer of the Indian Express.
When it was one to win off four, Fleming says an interesting incident occurred on the field. “I told Tugga that I wanted to come over the wicket to change the line and bowl a yorker. But Steve didn’t even look at me. He said ‘Yeah, whatever.’ The captain knew that the ship had already sunk,” reckons Fleming. The pacer did so eventually, and the rest as he says is ‘bizarre history’.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo