Mohd Shami bows out of test cricket
\n\nMohd Shami has left Test cricket. On the day, he first started. What he leaves behind is the legacy of a winner, a runner and, most of all, a one-of-a-kind genius. And his seam position was as straight as the announcement. Thirteen years on from possibly one of the all-time great test debuts a fast bowler could envisage.
\n\nA particularly emotional tour- Sachin Tendulkar's last – and a debut at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, which was his domestic backyard. A charged-up Shami, rocks up in front of the Windies and ends his opening game with 9 wickets. Searing pace, relentless vigour and unmatched reverse swing — something unlike what we have ever seen before. And fortunately, enough — it was only the beginning.
\n\nYears later at Centurion he took 5/44 and his 200th wicket, and Virat Kohli called him one of the three best seamers in the world. Dale Steyn, Shami's pace bowling idol, said the same thing from the opposite dressing room. He praised the wrist, the seam that threatens both edges, and the late movement, then added that you “can’t teach that”. When Steyn later wanted a South African bowler to…
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