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South Africa’s wr spinner Tabraiz Shamsi is eager to hit the ground running in the ODI World Cup. (File)
Cricket World Cup: ‘Grateful that I never chased my childhood dream’: Tabraiz Shamsi on his obsession with pace bowling
Growing up in Johannesburg, Tabraiz Shamsi wanted to be a left-arm pacer for South Africa, idolising Wasim Akram and Chaminda Vaas. But now he is relieved to have given up on his childhood dream, and became a spinner.
“If I was still trying to achieve my dream of becoming a fast bowler, I would never have been an international cricketer,” Shamsi tells The Indian Express on the eve of South Africa’s first World Cup match against Sri Lanka.
“In South Africa, there is a culture of pace bowling. I have grown up watching the likes of Allan Donald, Shaun Pollock, Lance Klusener, all of those guys. Naturally, when you see those guys dominating batsmen around the world, you want to be one of them. We haven’t had many left-arm fast bowlers, I wanted to become one. So, I used to try and learn from Wasim Akram and Chaminda Vaas, those were the two premier left-arm fast bowlers at that time. I used to try and copy their bowling actions as well.
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