Ramiz Raja

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Test Match Special · The Summer of Acrimony England v Pakistan 1992 · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

Also because uh according to them the the seam bowling or the way you know the English conditions hit the length and the ball will do the job uh should be enough for them to beat Pakistan.

But we were different because we had faster bowlers who bowl a different line length, uh and in that series uh we were better than them when it came to picking our wickets.

Well we we didn't use bottletop, so it's just uh the natural way of of making sure that the ball listens to you.

After what, thirty, forty overs, whatever you think.

Yeah.

Placid conditions, absolutely.

I still remember it.

Nothing happening, it's just getting some practice uh for the series.

In Z didn't have a great tour actually.

Didn't have a great series.

Had a great World Cup.

Uh but didn't really contribute a great deal.

Yeah, I was a as an on site kind of a player, so it must have been plum.

Yeah.

Yes, I mean and West Indies in those days was a really big team.

I mean, you know, Viv Richards and company.

Uh but you see, uh what was happening under Imran uh was that Imran didn't like when uh we were being labeled as as um as as cheaters or umpires really helping uh uh helping us.

So the idea was born I think it was a Sri Lankan tour in eighty five eighty six where he chatted uh

Amongst us in a in a dressing room, Chaddy said, look, enough is enough and we need to introduce this because nowhere else in the world you see these uh local umpires umpiring a local game.

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