When Matthew Wade sat down to meet the press after his match-winning effort on Thursday, a Pakistani journalist told him that the nation would never forget him and Mike Hussey for what the duo did to them in T20 World Cups.
Wade smiled. He knows what Hussey did in the 2010 semifinal, hitting Saeed Ajmal for three sixes in the last over to win a losing game for Australia. And Wade’s effort on Thursday was something similar — three sixes off the best Pakistan bowler Shaheen Afridi in the 19th over —that sent the 2009 champions home.
Even though Pakistan puts Wade on the same pedestal as Hussey, the wicketkeeper-batsman knows he is not. ‘Mr Cricket’ is one of the legends of Australian cricket, while Wade is only a survivor. In life as in cricket.
But the 33-year-old, who fought back from testicular cancer at the age of 16, is probably a little tired of fighting another battle to extend his international cricket career.
This story is from the November 13, 2021 edition of The Times of India Hyderabad.
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