Sensational statement from an Indian cricket legend: “I was India’s…….”
Sensational statement from an Indian cricket legend: “I was India’s…….”: Even if an Indian cricketer has a great career, that doesn’t mean it will end on a high note. If you look at some of the biggest names in Indian cricket, you can see that this is the case.
The great Kapil Dev had a lot of trouble in his last couple of years. After getting the much-anticipated 434th Test wicket, his career seems to fall apart. And he finally gave up. After the Test series in England in 2011, Rahul Dravid went out with a whimper against Australia a few months later. The same thing happened to both Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan.
Vengasarkar’s Career
Dilip Vengsarkar, a former captain and great cricketer, has joined the list of famous Indian players whose careers ended badly. Vengsarkar used to be the middle-order batsman for India, who scored a lot of runs. He was the icon of India’s incredible Test series triumph in England. It looked like he would keep being the hero for a few more years. But Vengsarkar’s plan to keep going was ruined by an accident. In 1988, Vengsarkar hurt his hand while batting in a Test match against the West Indies at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens. He got better, but his career was never the same after that. Then, in 1992, India went on a tour of Australia. This was Vengsarkar’s last tour, and a lot happened during that phase.
“If you see in the hindsight, of course I was doing well in the sense. But on the tour of Australia, I was dropped from the one-day matches. That was I was the highest scorer for India and I couldn’t find a place. I could understand if India were winning but they were losing each and every match on the tour of Australia. Coach Abbas Ali Baig was there and he asked me what we should do. I said you are asking an interested person,” Vengsarkar told former India batsman WV Raman on the latter’s YouTube channel.
His Last Test
Vengsarkar’s last Test series was against Australia. He did not do well with the bat, scoring only 158 runs in five games. He ended his 116-game Test career with 6868 runs. In the five ODIs Vengsarkar played between March 1990 and November 1991, he got a fifty. Vengsarkar, who used to be the head of selection for the BCCI, said that he thought it was unfair that he wasn’t picked. This happened irrespective of India’s poor performance in the ODIs.“I mean I can understand if you are winning all the matches and then you keep me on the sidelines. I was the highest scorer in ODIs till then. So then I thought that it’s not worth continuing because I have always believed that you should play in all formats. India were playing a lot of ODIs back then and if you are playing them all, you are part of the group,” he pointed out.