Shahid durrani

The death of Group Captain Shahid Ali Khan Durrani, 89, at Lucknow recently, didn’t find any worth mentioning space/minutes among cricket news. In true sense, he didn’t play for India and was also not a high rank BCCI official but was associated with one cricket incident, which is still a hot topic after more than 44 years. He was a Vishisht Seva Medal winner,

That story in brief is that India was frustrated with the various decisions umpire Rex Whitehead was taking during the 1980-81, three Test series between India and Australia. The third and the last Test at Melbourne saw a meltdown from Gavaskar. In the 2nd innings, Gavaskar at 70*, a Dennis Lillee ball struck on his pads, the umpire raised his finger, but Gavaskar was not convinced with the decision. Gavaskar stood his ground and the spat with Lillee boiled him so much that while going back to pavilion, ordered his batting partner Chauhan to leave the field with him.