The world knows him as a lethal bowler, but ever wondered what went down the first time Mohammed Shami grabbed a bat? 🏏
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00:00My father was very fond of watching the match.
00:02He saw me wearing a pad and asked me if I was sending him to OPA.
00:05I don't know when I fell asleep in the 34th or 35th ball.
00:14My father had brought a bat and ball from somewhere.
00:16They used to play for time pass.
00:21My brother was also fond of it.
00:23So I used to watch it.
00:26I used to come home on Saturdays and Sundays.
00:28I had a school from my grandmother's house.
00:32I used to come home on Saturdays and Sundays.
00:34I used to wonder why I was playing in the sun.
00:37I was like this since childhood.
00:39I used to sit under the tree and watch the match.
00:43As soon as the sunlight went down, I went out.
00:46I thought I will play now.
00:49I was 14 years old when my brother took me to play the match of the Dukes.
00:53Leather ball.
00:55Did he tell you before taking you?
00:56He took me from school.
00:57Did he take you somewhere?
00:58No, the players were not completing.
01:01He said that all the players are missing today and the match is important.
01:04You do one thing.
01:05Just put the ball.
01:07Don't bat.
01:09My father said that I will send him on one condition.
01:12You will not let him bat.
01:13Otherwise, he will get hurt.
01:14Really?
01:16He said yes.
01:17He took me from school.
01:21Maybe the second to last period.
01:23He took me.
01:25After winning the toss, he started batting.
01:27He said that he will bat.
01:29Slowly he came to me and said that you should become a bat.
01:32He said that I have never played.
01:35I said no, I will not go.
01:37I will put the ball.
01:38You had promised.
01:40He said that nothing will happen.
01:41I am telling you.
01:43Watch the ball and spin it.
01:45Just leave the line of the ball.
01:47Spin it like you do in tennis.
01:51In the meantime, my father came from there.
01:53My father was very fond of watching the match.
01:56My father saw me wearing a pad.
01:58He said that you are not sending him to the open.
02:00My father called him and told him a lot.
02:02He said that nothing will happen.
02:04You see.
02:05My brother had a lot of confidence.
02:07That in the opening itself.
02:08He said that he will make a run.
02:11My brother sent me to the open.
02:13I played the first ball.
02:14I did not know that it would go so hard.
02:16Great.
02:17I threw the first ball.
02:18I just put the bat.
02:19Because you have to hit the tennis ball.
02:20But it went so fast.
02:22I said that it is going very fast.
02:25Then I held my heart.
02:27Now I have to spin it.
02:29I did not know when.
02:31I fell asleep in the 34th or 35th ball.
02:33When I came to the stadium.
02:35The coach saw it.
02:37He said that you can work hard on it.
02:40Then I.
02:41The boys who were with me.
02:43They used to train for the army.
02:45That was my training.
02:47For cricket.
02:48Okay.
02:49So they used to do different types of training.
02:51They used to run in the sand.
02:53There is a lot of sand there.
02:55Like Rajasthan.
02:57So there are some places of sand there.
02:59Behind my garden.
03:00Okay.
03:01Running there.
03:03Long jump.
03:04High jump.
03:07They used to do karate in it.
03:09Now I used to do as much as I could.
03:11I was small.
03:12All the kids were together.
03:14That was my training for cricket.
03:16I went to the gym a lot later.
03:17During the Orange Trophy.
03:19Okay.