Never Thought That I Would Be Able to Play Cricket with Hard Ball – Naseem Shah

Pakistan’s young fast bowler Naseem Shah has discussed his struggle in cricket.

PCB has shared a video of an interview with Naseem Shah in which he can talked about the lack of cricket facilities in his native area and his journey from tape ball to hard ball cricket.

In the video, Naseem Shah said that there are not so many facilities for cricket in Lower Dir, so I never thought that I would be able to play cricket with a hard ball, but the passion for cricket was such that even in my childhood, I used to form teams while sitting in class and waiting for break so, I can go and play cricket. My father used to be angry about, he said that our focus should be on studies only but now my father is happy to see me as international cricketer.

The fast bowler said that “I was scolded by my father a lot in my childhood because he wanted me to study in school. At that time, my father and I did not even think that I would ever play hardball, but then I came to Lahore and attended the late Abdul Qadir’s academy “, since then played hard ball cricket regularly, after doing well in U-16, i played U-19 followed by PSL and after that the entire performance of international career is in front of fans.

The fast bowler further said that speed means a lot to me because I came into the team because of fast bowling, if you want to swing with 140 plus it takes a lot of effort so I am still working on a lot of things.