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Cricket Spectator
Consistent outstanding performances at Test Cricket level has given fame to the players. In addition, certain terminologies have been devised corresponding to highly remarkable performances. I know one such Pakistani cricketer; Fazal Mahmood (February 1927 - May 2005)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazal_Mahmood
From dusk to dawn : autobiography of a Pakistan cricket legend, Oxford University Press, 2003, 241 p.
Whenever Fazal got a wicket Commentators and Press would say “Fazalled” instead of Bowled. At the Oval in 1954, Fazal captured six wickets for 53 runs in the first innings and six more for 46 in the second, making headlines in the English press like “England team Fazalled”.
Fazal was the first bowler in the history of Test cricket to take 12 or more wickets in a Test match against four different countries he played against, those being India, England, Australia, and West Indies.
Prominent world cricketers have acknowledged Fazal’s class and calibre as a medium-pacer.
“Fazal was simply unplayable in his day. My most difficult and memorable innings was at The Oval against him where I scored 53 in 1954,” Dennis Compton
“If cricket was played as much in those days as now, Fazal would have taken a thousand wickets,” Sir Alec Bedser
“Fazal could make the ball talk on any wicket,” Neil Harvey
“Though I never saw Fazal play, I heard of his achievements when I began playing cricket and during the beginning of my career wherever I went — India, England or West Indies — people used to talk about Fazal,” Imran Khan
Anyone else know about such terminologies named after the cricketers may post here for the information and interest of all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazal_Mahmood
From dusk to dawn : autobiography of a Pakistan cricket legend, Oxford University Press, 2003, 241 p.
Whenever Fazal got a wicket Commentators and Press would say “Fazalled” instead of Bowled. At the Oval in 1954, Fazal captured six wickets for 53 runs in the first innings and six more for 46 in the second, making headlines in the English press like “England team Fazalled”.
Fazal was the first bowler in the history of Test cricket to take 12 or more wickets in a Test match against four different countries he played against, those being India, England, Australia, and West Indies.
Prominent world cricketers have acknowledged Fazal’s class and calibre as a medium-pacer.
“Fazal was simply unplayable in his day. My most difficult and memorable innings was at The Oval against him where I scored 53 in 1954,” Dennis Compton
“If cricket was played as much in those days as now, Fazal would have taken a thousand wickets,” Sir Alec Bedser
“Fazal could make the ball talk on any wicket,” Neil Harvey
“Though I never saw Fazal play, I heard of his achievements when I began playing cricket and during the beginning of my career wherever I went — India, England or West Indies — people used to talk about Fazal,” Imran Khan
Anyone else know about such terminologies named after the cricketers may post here for the information and interest of all.
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