Height Of Superstition! Ex-India Star Ate 2-Day Old Banana For Wickets, Wasim Jaffer Reveals | Cricket News

Former India cricketers Wasim Jaffer and Zaheer Khan lately spoke in regards to the superstitious practices, which some gamers do earlier than going for a match. India is nation with a various tradition and a wide range of languages and practices. As competitors in each sport, particularly cricket, is rising day-by-day, gamers give their sweat and blood on the sphere to remain forward within the recreation. Speaking on Jio Cinema, Jaffer narrated a narrative of S Sreesanth consuming a two-day-old banana for good luck earlier than a Test match in 2006 in Jamaica.

“Mane kaka (Ramesh Mane, the masseur) used to be with the team at the time and he used to hold prayer rituals. Sreesanth was very superstitious. I haven’t seen a fast bowler this superstitious. Mane kaka had a ritual where he’d put incense sticks in a banana to make it stand upright. Someone teased Sreesanth and said, ‘If you eat the banana, you will take five wickets in the match’. The banana had been lying there for two days and he ate it for the wickets,” stated Jaffer.

Zaheer did not depend on superstitions throughout his profession however even he had some facets of his routine he most well-liked to maintain unchanged for his total profession.

“When I used to be getting ready to bowl and sporting spikes, I had a routine which I do even now when with my regular footwear. It’s turn out to be a routine, first, you put on the left shoe and tie the laces, then the appropriate… Superstitions are a separate a part of cricket. ‘I watched this film yesterday so I’ll watch it earlier than each match’, that is mainly a approach to make you consider time. Some maintain a crimson handkerchief of their pockets,” said Zaheer.

He also revealed that players would really commit to their superstitions, saying unnamed players would wear the same set of clothes for the entire Test to preserve luck in their garments.

“There have been cricketers who whereas enjoying within the Ranji Trophy or a Test match, in the event that they bowled spell in a session, they’d not wash these garments once more. Those garments have luck and the luck must be saved intact. You can think about what comes over the ten gamers which are enjoying alongside them. This has occurred and even stretched to underwear! If you wash the garments, you wash the luck away and might’t get it again,” he added.