Former Indian pacer Venkatesh Prasad's career-defining spell: 6 for 33 against Pakistan in Chennai, overcoming adverse conditions and expectations.
- Venkatesh Prasad goes down memory lane in our series, My Greatest Sporting Moment
- The former India team pacer picks his 6 for 33 against Pakistan in Chennai as the best spell of his career
- He talks about how his reverse swing was noticed by the opposition and how he used that to fox them
- He also talks about the best wicket among the six Pakistani scalps
The former Indian pacer Venkatesh Prasad has worn many hats over the years. He featured in 23 Tests and 161 one-dayers for the Indian cricket team. When one thinks about the pace, one of the first memories is that of India in the 1996 World Cup quarterfinals against Pakistan in Bangalore and Prasad's verbal duel with Amir Sohail. But that epic match does not count as the best moment of his cricket career for Prasad.
Of the 190 odd matches that you've played for the country if you were to pick a spell and say that is the spell that defined your career, or it's something that you look back with a lot of memories. Which one would that be?