It was just three hits away, says West Indian

sharjah — It felt straight out of a movie. A wicket has fallen and the game is tantalisingly poised. In walks, or hobbles, the captain, onto the middle, with chants of “Sammy, Sammy” ringing around the Sharjah Cricket Stadium.

He can barely walk, let alone run, that searing pain in the right knee troubling him. He somehow pulls himself and, with great difficulty, takes a single and makes it to the striker’s end.

After that, it is crash, boom, bang, game over, a little before midnight. It is not the body, it is the heart and sheer adrenaline.

The West Indians have perhaps taken ownership of dramatic endings and Darren Sammy ‘Khan’ added one more to the movie reel.

The Peshawar Zalmi captain smoked two sixes and a boundary to perform a heist against the Quetta Gladiators.

After those heroics, Sammy revealed what his line of thinking was. “I just needed to hit three sixes. It’s a great feeling to make the team win. Games against Quetta have always been classics. I told myself: ‘Just two big hits and we could win.’ I believed in myself, and it came off,” said Sammy.

“I always intended to bat, that’s why I didn’t go to the MRI already. I just had to look at the equation and it was just three hits away,” he added.

Meanwhile, Sammy’s teammate Tamim Iqbal said that it showed character of Sammy. “It was an outstanding innings. He was struggling with the injury but he went back and played for the team and did it for the team. That shows his character and that shows Zalmi’s character too. We all play for the team and that is very important,” said Iqbal.

“He has been there since the beginning. We all know he’s a character and he showed it as well when everything was against him. He went there and did it for the team, played an unbelievable innings. Also, one must not forget his bowling. He brought us back in the game,” he added.