Jammu and Kashmir pacer Auqib Nabi shared insights from his conversations with former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan, whose steerage he continues to worth deeply. Nabi has picked up proper the place he left off final yr, having claimed 17 wickets, together with two five-wicket hauls, within the 2025-26 season up to now.
The Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Affiliation (JKCA) continued to again him even when outcomes didn’t instantly go his manner. Throughout his stint as player-cum-mentor with J&Okay, Pathan had written to the JKCA, urging them to put money into Nabi’s improvement, a transfer that now appears to be paying off.
“Once I began bowling, I used to bowl outswing. Then I assumed I wanted to work on inswing as nicely. Whereas doing so, I misplaced my outswing however my inswing improved. After a pair extra seasons, I assumed aisa nahi chalega (it will possibly’t go like this). I wanted to maneuver the ball each methods. I began engaged on my wrist place and on what size to hit. To be trustworthy, I’ve saved issues easy for the previous 1-2 years. Now, I’ve good management over each swings. That’s why I’m getting extra wickets,” stated Nabi as quoted by Occasions of India.
“Once I began taking part in age-group cricket, we by no means had bowling coaches. Even rising up, I by no means had anybody to show me. Once I made my Ranji Trophy debut, we had Irfan Pathan with us. He gave me a number of helpful ideas associated to bowling. He was the primary one who informed me to work on my wrist and never change something. After he left, we didn’t have any bowling coach. We had been on our personal. For the previous two years, we’ve had P. Krishna Kumar as our bowling coach. After he got here, I bought a number of assist, and it’s displaying in my bowling,” he added.
Talking about his present marketing campaign, Nabi has already claimed a number of high-profile scalps, together with Ajinkya Rahane, Sarfaraz Khan, Musheer Khan (twice), and centurion Siddhesh Lad. Towards Rajasthan, he produced a devastating spell, taking 7 for twenty-four within the second innings to finish a ten-wicket match haul. His fiery opening burst noticed him dismiss Rajasthan’s whole prime six.
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