Beyond the wickets: Mohammed Shami

Brut India

The world knows him as a lethal bowler, but ever wondered what went down the first time Mohammed Shami grabbed a bat? 🏏

Transcript

00:00My father was very fond of watching the match.

00:02He saw me wearing a pad and asked me if I was sending him to OPA.

00:05I don't know when I fell asleep in the 34th or 35th ball.

00:14My father had brought a bat and ball from somewhere.

00:16They used to play for time pass.

00:21My brother was also fond of it.

00:23So I used to watch it.

00:26I used to come home on Saturdays and Sundays.

00:28I had a school from my grandmother's house.

00:32I used to come home on Saturdays and Sundays.

00:34I used to wonder why I was playing in the sun.

00:37I was like this since childhood.

00:39I used to sit under the tree and watch the match.

00:43As soon as the sunlight went down, I went out.

00:46I thought I will play now.

00:49I was 14 years old when my brother took me to play the match of the Dukes.

00:53Leather ball.

00:55Did he tell you before taking you?

00:56He took me from school.

00:57Did he take you somewhere?

00:58No, the players were not completing.

01:01He said that all the players are missing today and the match is important.

01:04You do one thing.

01:05Just put the ball.

01:07Don't bat.

01:09My father said that I will send him on one condition.

01:12You will not let him bat.

01:13Otherwise, he will get hurt.

01:14Really?

01:16He said yes.

01:17He took me from school.

01:21Maybe the second to last period.

01:23He took me.

01:25After winning the toss, he started batting.

01:27He said that he will bat.

01:29Slowly he came to me and said that you should become a bat.

01:32He said that I have never played.

01:35I said no, I will not go.

01:37I will put the ball.

01:38You had promised.

01:40He said that nothing will happen.

01:41I am telling you.

01:43Watch the ball and spin it.

01:45Just leave the line of the ball.

01:47Spin it like you do in tennis.

01:51In the meantime, my father came from there.

01:53My father was very fond of watching the match.

01:56My father saw me wearing a pad.

01:58He said that you are not sending him to the open.

02:00My father called him and told him a lot.

02:02He said that nothing will happen.

02:04You see.

02:05My brother had a lot of confidence.

02:07That in the opening itself.

02:08He said that he will make a run.

02:11My brother sent me to the open.

02:13I played the first ball.

02:14I did not know that it would go so hard.

02:16Great.

02:17I threw the first ball.

02:18I just put the bat.

02:19Because you have to hit the tennis ball.

02:20But it went so fast.

02:22I said that it is going very fast.

02:25Then I held my heart.

02:27Now I have to spin it.

02:29I did not know when.

02:31I fell asleep in the 34th or 35th ball.

02:33When I came to the stadium.

02:35The coach saw it.

02:37He said that you can work hard on it.

02:40Then I.

02:41The boys who were with me.

02:43They used to train for the army.

02:45That was my training.

02:47For cricket.

02:48Okay.

02:49So they used to do different types of training.

02:51They used to run in the sand.

02:53There is a lot of sand there.

02:55Like Rajasthan.

02:57So there are some places of sand there.

02:59Behind my garden.

03:00Okay.

03:01Running there.

03:03Long jump.

03:04High jump.

03:07They used to do karate in it.

03:09Now I used to do as much as I could.

03:11I was small.

03:12All the kids were together.

03:14That was my training for cricket.

03:16I went to the gym a lot later.

03:17During the Orange Trophy.

03:19Okay.

Category

Transcript

Recommended