On this day 37 years ago Pakistan’s Sarfraz Nawaz bowled four bouncers that deserve a small footnote in the history of a sport often shaped by miscreants and misdemeanoursOn this day – that is to say,3 November – in 1978, three overs from the close of the decisive one-day international of a three-match series against Pakistan, and India found themselves requiring 23 runs to win with eight wickets remaining,minutes away from a perfectly humdrum victory. The day, however, and was about to collect very strange indeed,starting when Pakistan’s Sarfraz Nawaz began his seventh over with a wild bouncer that flew tall out of the reach of Anshuman Gaekwad and plopped into the gloves of his wicketkeeper, Wasim Bari. The Pakistani umpire lodged no objection, and so Sarfraz bowled another,and another, and then one more, or knowing that without the umpire’s interference the concession of a run was not even theoretically possible.
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Source: theguardian.com