Michael Hussey's Saeed Ajmal snapped: "Father didn't talk to me for many days, Begum got to hear critical calls"

In the semi-finals of the 2010 T20 World Cup, everything seemed to be going in Pakistan's favor. When David Hussey was dismissed in the 13th over, he was replaced by his older brother Michael Hussey on the crease.

At the time, Australia's score was 105 for five, meaning Australia still needed 87 off 45 balls to win the semi-final.

Coach Waqar Younis and other players sitting in the dugout of the Pakistani team at the St. Lucia Stadium breathed a sigh of relief when Cameron White was dismissed in the 17th over for an aggressive 43-run innings with the help of five sixes.

Australia still had to score 53 off 21 balls but who knew that the wind on the field was going the other way.

The first bowler to fall victim to Michael Hussey's dangerous intentions was captain Shahid Afridi who hit two sixes in the last over. Although Steve Smith's wicket fell in Saeed Ajmal's third over, Mitchell Johnson's four and Michael Hussey's six kept the Australian hopes alive.

The 19th over of the match was bowled by Mohammad Amir in which the 16 runs scored helped Australia to a distance of 18 runs. For the last over, captain Shahid Afridi had only one option to give the ball to his best bowler Saeed Ajmal.

He did not want to take the risk of giving the ball to medium-pacer Abdul Razzaq because he had scored 22 runs in the first two overs.

Mitchell Johnson took a run off the first ball of Saeed Ajmal's last over to put Michael Hussey on the field.

On the second ball of the over, Michael Hussey played a pull shot and delivered the ball to the stands of the spectators. He did the same on the next ball, this time the ball went out of long on. Saeed Ajmal bowled the fourth ball off the stumps which was cut by Michael Hussey.

Michael Hussey ended the match with another six on the long on to take his team to the final. The Australian players ran from the dugout. Saeed Ajmal was sitting at the bowling end in a state of despair and his fellow cricketers were busy encouraging him.

Michael Hussey had deprived Pakistan of reaching the final of the T20 World Cup for the third time in a row.

'People have to listen to taunts'

Saeed Ajmal remembers well that after this match, even his own had changed.

Speaking to janisports, Saeed Ajmal said, “When I came back home after the tournament, I came across negative attitudes from people. People in my own neighborhood used to say sentences. I heard slogans against me on the ground. My own family was angry with me. Begum was getting to hear critical calls.

"My father didn't talk to me for days," he says. He bluntly said that if you answer what has happened on the ground, then your reputation will be restored, otherwise it will be tarnished for the rest of your life.

Saeed Ajmal says, "Dad's words gave me new courage and I started working harder than before. It is the result of my hard work that I became the number one bowler in the world."

Saeed Ajmal says, "People remember that one match but no one remembers how many matches I won or what I did with Michael Hussey after that." I dismissed Michael Hussey three times after that match. "

"I was bowled from the wrong end."

Saeed Ajmal says, “After losing the match, the atmosphere in the dressing room was such that all the players were hanging their mouths. The players were more upset that Australia got a big score.

Saeed Ajmal says, “When I reached the hotel, the manager and coach Waqar Younis came to my room and started consoling me. "Don't worry, you won the match against South Africa earlier," he said. "You were the best option for the last over, there was no other bowler," he said.

"I told him okay but you bowled me from the wrong end where the wind was blowing. I did my best to win the match. Waqar Younis said that what was supposed to happen has happened. You should think positively. You can't be out of the team because of that one performance. "

Saeed Ajmal says, "When Michael Hussey hit a four on the fourth ball, I understood that the game was out of hand. Salman Butt's mistake was that he came forward in the circle to stop the single, although it is well known that Hussey did not make a run at that time. We weren't lucky that day and it was a great day for Michael Hussey. He played a really great innings. "

"When I retired, Michael Hussey sent me a video message because it was personal, so I didn't share it on social media," says Saeed Ajmal. Michael Hussey told me that when I had to play against you, I kept thinking all night about how I would face your bowling in the morning.

Advantage of small boundary and strong wind

"He couldn't believe it could happen," Hussey said in an interview about his brilliant innings. It was not easy to score 18 runs in front of a great bowler like Saeed Ajmal. He has been a bowler who has always created problems for him.

Michael Hussey said that the biggest advantage he got was that the boundary of the league side was small in this ground and the wind was blowing in the same direction and it was easy for me to hit. "Shahid Afridi's goal was to get Australia out of the match as soon as possible so that they need as many runs as possible to win in the last overs."

In that case, it is not clear who will do the last overs. If we had to score 25 runs in the last over then we would have no chance. Mohammad Aamir did a very good 19th over in which we were lucky to get two fours.

Sydney Test century

Michael Hussey also played an unbeaten 134 against Pakistan in the Sydney Test just five months before the match-winning innings of the T20 World Cup semi-final, in which he shared 123 for the ninth wicket with Peter Siddle. Had added

But for this century, he was thankful to wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal, who dropped three of his catches off the bowling of Danish Kaneria.

Thanks to this innings of Michael Hussey, the Australian team gave Pakistan a target of 176 runs and won the Test by 36 runs.