导出博客文章Hyderabad v Tamil Nadu, 1986-87, SecunderabadI played my first Ranji Trophy game
when I was 26 [25]. I thought it was much delayed; I probably deserved it when I
was 21-22. I had finished B.Sc Mathematics and my father pushed me to do
engineering. When I was doing my engineering in Coimbatore, I came to Chennai
every weekend to play first-division cricket. I was scoring a lot of runs, but
there was no opening for me in the team.I had to wait quite a bit because there
were others who made their debuts. But they never quite latched on to the
opportunity and I got my go. At one point, I thought I might never make it. But,
I was so hell bent on wanting to play cricket that I didnt feel like going to
the USA to pursue my MS degree. I asked my dad to give me one years time and
within that I would play in the Ranji Trophy. When that happened, he asked me
What now?; I said, Give me one more year, I will play for India. And I did play
for India.During the train journey to Hyderabad for my Ranji Trophy debut,
whenever I turned around I would see someone or the other looking at me. My
team-mates knew my father was a leading lawyer and I didnt come from a
background where the Ranji Trophy meant a lot to me. They knew I used to drive
my fathers Mercedes Benz to matches. Not that I was pampered, but people looked
at it and thought: Oh god, this guy has got a lot of money. I just tried to read
something on the train and make sure my nerves were settling down.There were a
few good things about making my debut at the Secunderabad Gymkhana. It has
always been a good pitch to bat on and was lucky for me after that match as
well. But, captain Abdul Jabbar lost the toss and we saw Abdul Azeem score a
triple hundred. We then saw Khalid Abdul Qayyum and Vijay Mohanraj also get a
hundred. I remember one fast bowler, Immanuel Rajkumar, was also making his
debut; he must have wished he hadnt been there.Those days few people had the
Morrant pads, and Azeem was one of them. He played forward to a delivery from
Rajkumar, and the ball ricocheted off the pads and went back to Rajkumar quite
sharply. Rajkumar held it with one hand and appealed. It was so funny and we
made fun of him. That kind of desperation was because Hyderabads score at that
time was 500 for 3 or something. When my turn to bat came, I decided to hang on
and play out 55 overs or so [on the second day]. I remember one moment when V
Sivaramakrishnan was batting in the 90s, and he flicked the ball to mid-wicket
to Azeem, who was their best fielder, and called for a run. He was really angry
when I turned it down, but there was no run there. The next ball, Arshad Ayub
went diagonally round the stumps and darted one of his faster ones - it must
have been about 135 kph (laughs). He didnt offer a shot and the stump went
flying. Sivaramakrishnan didnt say anything to me, and everybody in the team
knew he was a fussy runner so nobody said anything. It was just his nerves in
the 90s and he was looking get off strike. I dont remember how I got out, but
its a surprise I got out to Bobjee (Narasimha Rao); it must have been a terrible
delivery (laughs). I was dismissed for 81.I had never been to Hyderabad before
that trip. I had read so much about the Charminar and seen photographs of it, so
I desperately wanted to see it. But, once there, I felt totally disappointed; I
could barely breath and move around. But, Hyderabad has been lucky in a lot of
ways. I got a call to play for India in the one-dayers against New Zealand after
the selectors saw me at the Fateh Maidan [Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium].When I
got back to Chepauk, there was this manager called Santhanam in the Tamil Nadu
Cricket Association. When I met him, he said: its good you got out for 81. I was
so upset because a hundred on debut would have been special, and asked him why
he said that. He said batsmen who scored a hundred on debut for Tamil Nadu never
played more than five or six matches. I actually ended up playing for a very
long time [81 first-class games] - I made my debut in 1986 and retired in
1998.As told to Arun Venugopal
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