{"id":19995,"date":"2021-04-18T17:49:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T12:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=19995"},"modified":"2021-04-18T17:49:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T12:49:48","slug":"35-years-on-last-ball-winning-sixer-miandad-and-tauseef-still-remembered-in-golden-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/19995","title":{"rendered":"35 years on last ball winning sixer, Miandad and Tauseef still remembered in golden words."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web desk,<\/p>\n<p>Thirty five years on, memory of the famous last-ball six in Sharjah still delights the nation and the hero on that day Javed Miandad is no exception.<\/p>\n<p>April 18 was the day when Miandad hit a six off the last ball of the innings delivered by India\u2019s Chetan Sharma when Pakistan needed four to win. The victory gave Pakistan the 1985-86 Austral-Asia Cup and a moment that would be cherished for a long time to come, celebrating the win over their archrivals India.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary batsman was reminiscing the game\u2019s most celebrated six as nation marked the 35th anniversary and cricket lovers share the video on twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JavedMiandad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JavedMiandad<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sharjah?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sharjah<\/a> <br \/>Funny: Javed Miandad\u2019s last-ball six off Chetan Sharma gave Pakistan a famous win at Sharjah in 1986. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aCYfSJ21dt\">pic.twitter.com\/aCYfSJ21dt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sufi Uzair (@SufiUzair2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SufiUzair2\/status\/1251481713496244227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tauseef, the number 11 during the match, cleverly rotated the strike on the penultimate delivery to give Miandad the strike for the final ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat he [Tauseef] did was exceptional,\u201d Miandad said while praising his former teammate. \u201cIt was a pressure situation and he deserves credit for my six because I got the strike due to his crucial single.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former captain, while recalling the six, said it was still a lesson for cricketers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis tells batsmen to stay at the wicket because runs can come anytime. It was one of the most memorable moments for me because it boosted our cricket and united the nation. I still remember it like yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the batting legend came up with a unique suggestion of fielding 15-20 players in the team. \u201cWhy continue with 11 players per side. There was not much population in our times but now it has multiplied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore players should be given a chance to play in a playing team.\u201d The former captain said cricket is not played on laptops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCricketers are made after hard work under the scorching sun and not on laptops,\u201d he said, while lamenting the current players\u2019 unwillingness to learn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot a single cricketer has approached me to seek guidance yet. The hunger to learn is not present the way it used to be in our times.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web desk, Thirty five years on, memory of the famous last-ball six in Sharjah still delights the nation and the hero on that day Javed Miandad is no exception. April 18 was the day when Miandad hit a six off the last ball of the innings delivered by India\u2019s Chetan Sharma when Pakistan needed four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,31,32,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-news","category-pakistan","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19997,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19995\/revisions\/19997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}