More fast bowlers than any other Country

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[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][font=Tahoma][size=13px]Subash Jayaraman: Your father, [/color][color=rgb(3, 91, 172)]Nazar Mohammad[/color][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)], was the first batsman to score a century for Pakistan. You followed in his footsteps to become an opening batsman. Were there expectations to choose and excel in cricket at a very young age?


[url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/player/41308.html]Mudassar Nazar:  I don't know whether there were expectations. Maybe the public expected it. My father was pretty mild about the whole thing.
Although, when I look back, he did bring me up differently compared to the rest of the family.
He must have seen my interest in the game at an early age.
So I was given the freedom to play cricket at odd hours, while my two brothers didn't have that kind of free hand.

I never felt it was a burden. I was so madly in love with the game and madly in love with my dad that I just wanted to be like him.

This is how the opening stuff came to me. The first ball of the day, the first ball of the innings.

That came from following in my dad's steps. He had given up cricket well before I was born.

It is just that I wanted to be like him.

When I played my first ball in Test cricket, Jeff Thomson was bowling.

I can't say it was frightening because I didn't know what fright was in those days.

I was 20.

Gary Gilmour replaced Dennis Lillee and bowled ...

That was my baptism. I felt good    8)

You have [url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63333.html]carried your bat through the innings like your father.

You scored the slowest Test hundred  :-[

and had some large partnerships, including that 451 with [Javed] Miandad.


[size=12pt][color=green]What does it take to play such long innings again and again ?  ::LOL::

Ask Shiv 

[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][size=13px]SJ: Who is the best batsman, Pakistani or otherwise, that you really admired and enjoyed watching?[/size][/color]

[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][size=13px]MN: Oh, very easy answer. I have not found anyone better than [/color][color=rgb(3, 91, 172)]Sunil Gavaskar[/color][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]. He was my hero :

[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][font=Tahoma][size=13px] even though we would find it very hard to dismiss him, especially during the early days. I was an aggressive young man who wanted to unsettle him.

His composure, the time he had, and the amount of big scores he used to get - his concentration would be unflinching.

He was a nightmare, yet delightful to play against.[/size][/color]

[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][size=13px]Pakistan has more fast bowlers than any other country in the world.[/size][/color]
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[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][size=13px]Pakistan is blessed with fast bowlers, and yet people say that we are not getting anyone who bowls quick.[/size][/color]
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[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][size=13px]Yes, we don't have anyone bowling at 155-160kph.[/size][/color]
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[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][size=13px]We have got bowlers who can bowl in excess of 140kph and there are more than ten of them. Nobody has that.[/size][/color]
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[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][size=13px]There are left-armers, right-armers, and they have all got different actions. [/size][/color]
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[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][size=13px]All we need to do is to work on them and get them into the system and get them to the academies.[/size][/color]
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[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][size=13px]That is what Pakistan needs to do.[/size][/color]

[size=14px][/size][size=1.35em] The hard thing about Pakistan is that they throw up these cricketers you've never seen before[/size][size=14px] [/size]

Steve Waugh praises Pakistan's ability to keep discovering fresh talent, evident in their 221 and 356-run victory against Australia in Dubai