On This Day April 18th, 1986: Javed Miandad hits last ball six at Sharjah vs India
Many years ago today in cricketing history, Javed Miandad hit a last ball six off of Chetan Sharma’s bowling in the Final of the Austral-Asia cup to secure a Pakistan win over India at Sharjah.
Having won the toss, Pakistan put India into bat. In the allotted 50 overs, India set Pakistan a target of 246 runs to win. During the course of the chase, Pakistan lost wickets at regular intervals with batsmen failing to convert starts.
With Javed Miandad at the crease, Pakistan always stood an outside chance of reaching the target, but the problem being loss of wickets at regular intervals with Miandad running out of partners.
At the end of the 49th over Pakistan required 11 runs off the final over with 3 wickets in hand. Chetan Sharma was to ball the final over of the match. Here is how ti played out:
49.1 – One run scored, Wasim Akram run out. Zulqarnain comes in to bat, Miandad has strike. 10 runs needed
49.2 – Miandad hits one through the midwicket for FOUR. 6 needed off 4 deliveries
49.3 – Only a single taken as Roger Binny saves an almost certain boundary. 5 off 3 needed. Zulqarnain now on strike.
49.4 – Zulqarnain goes for a big one and is bowled out. Miandad absolutely furious. Tauseef Ahmed is the new man in.
49.5 – Tauseef Ahmed takes a quick single and Azharuddin misses a close runout chance. 4 runs needed off the last ball with Miandad on strike.
49.6 – An attempted yorked from Chetan Sharma is misdirected into a full toss which Miandad helps over the square leg fence for a SIX
