It would have been a sense of deja vu for Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) watching left-arm spinner Abid Mushtaq run through the Pondicherry batting line-up, determined to secure a seemingly improbable win for his team.
With 87 to win in two days and a session, anyone would have thought Pondicherry was all set to wrap up the match. But Abid didn’t think so.
“When I went onto the ground, I told my bowling coach, ‘This score is a far cry for them [as the ball was turning sharply]. ‘Don’t worry, I will show you (what I mean),’” he said after his team’s 19-run win over Pondicherry on the third day of their Ranji Trophy match here on Sunday.
