Never thanda Down Under

Have you come here to die?
Anshuman Gaekwad, who arrived as replacement for the injured Surender Amarnath on the 1977-78 tour of Australia, was flabbergasted when he heard an Australian official at the Melbourne Cricket Ground asking him, “Have you come here to die?” Though speed demon Jeff Thomson was Australia’s pace spearhead in that series, there was no way the gutsy Gaekwad was going to get bogged down by big names, so he let out an emphatic “no” in response. When he was asked again, his captain Bishan Singh Bedi came to the rescue and informed his bespectacled batsman that all the official was asking was whether, “he had come here today,” in Aussie accent. He had thought today was ‘to die’.
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Anshuman Gaekwad, who arrived as replacement for the injured Surender Amarnath on the 1977-78 tour of Australia, was flabbergasted when he heard an Australian official at the Melbourne Cricket Ground asking him, “Have you come here to die?” Though speed demon Jeff Thomson was Australia’s pace spearhead in that series, there was no way the gutsy Gaekwad was going to get bogged down by big names, so he let out an emphatic “no” in response. When he was asked again, his captain Bishan Singh Bedi came to the rescue and informed his bespectacled batsman that all the official was asking was whether, “he had come here today,” in Aussie accent. He had thought today was ‘to die’.