BACKING the youngster from Jammu and Kashmir, Hyderabad skipper David Warner tosses the ball to Abdul Samad to bowl the final over with Chennai needing 28 to win on Friday night. Despite the fact that one of the best finishers of the game MS Dhoni is at the crease, the Aussie opener is confident.
So was Mohammad Farooq, Samad’s father, who was glued to his television set at his home in Sidhra town of Jammu.
But the confidence gave way to some tense moments as the leg-break bowler sent the first ball down the leg side that went past all the fielders for five wides. “With that, the equation came down to 23 off 6 and I knew Dhoni could do it. But he (Samad) remained calm and delivered what was expected of him,” father Farooq told this daily.
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