Regularly, we hear accounts of cricketers making endearing motions towards one another when they are not contending on the field. Previous Pakistan pacer Yasir Arafat additionally described one such occasion about previous India captain Rahul Dravid.
Arafat recollected an example when Dravid was available at a similar scene where Arafat played cricket in England’s T20 Blast rivalry in 2014.
Arafat said he had seen Dravid in London, where he came to ring the chime at Lord’s for the second Test among India and England. Arafat got down on Dravid’s name while the previous India batsman was boarding a taxi.
“Rahul Dravid had gone to Lord’s to-do discourse for a match. After the game, he was leaving the arena. He flagged down a taxi and planned to sit in the vehicle when I yelled ‘Rahul Bhai’ from a good way.
He heard my voice and requested that the driver go; he left the taxi to converse with me,” Arafat said on the Sports Yaari YouTube channel.
“I have not played a lot of cricket for Pakistan. In any case, Rahul addressed me for 10-15 minutes. He got some information about my cricket and my family. I felt great.”
Arafat likewise said that taking Dravid’s wicket to open his record in Test cricket is the ‘most valued one’ of his profession.
“Taking Rahul Dravid’s wicket to open my record in Test cricket was a major accomplishment for me. I can say Rahul Dravid’s wicket is the most valued one of my profession,” Yasir Arafat finished up.
39-year-old Arafat played 3 Tests, 11 ODIs, and 13 T20 internationals in his vocation for Pakistan. He, notwithstanding, has been a standard in district cricket and has shown up for sides like Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, and Somerset.