When you are an excellent fielder but the script demands something else from you...

Fun fact: actor jadeja on the right appreciating Azhar's acting skills🌟

Birds of the same feather flock together 😉

The bowler also didn't look worried at all. 🧐

Just look who the bowler is. He is also banned for fixing. Jadeja smiling. You can add everything and it will make sense

Even the safest hands can’t always beat the script.

Yes - just look at the reaction of Azhar after dropping the catch, Prabhakar went back casually without showing any frustration, Jadeja smiling. In hindsight, everything is making sense

Aise bhadwo ko bhi kuchh log defend karne Aa jate hain

Fixing was not limited to one or two players. Entire batting unit fixed this game. Sachin crawled to 14 off 30 balls without a boundary. Then he tried to get out a few times. Finally threw his wicket trying to convert 1 to non existent 2 in the last ball of the over so that Kumble could take strike. Others like Amre, Vijay Yadav and Kapil played blind ghumao shot and got out. Mind you there was no asking pressure at all. Tehelka tapes mentioned this particular game as fixed.

Prabhakar walking back nonchalantly praising Azhar, wah mere sher, 40% aaya haath mein

Seriously appalling and equally saddening

Hard to watch, especially knowing Azharuddin was such a brilliant fielder. That dropped catch still raises uncomfortable questions about cricket’s darkest chapter...

Azhar drops a sitter and tries to make it look like a tough one that he couldn't sight properly, Prabhakar goes back nonchalantly without any problem, Jadeja smiling as if he is appreciating Azhar. In hindsight, it all makes a perfect sense.

Fixuddin fucker😡😡😡😡no reaction from bowler also who is another fixer

Aur career Prabhakar ka kha gaya Prabhakar-Srinath-Prasad-Kumble would've been a deadly quartet!

Prabhakar tried to expose Kapil and hence he was targeted and banned for life.

This is unbelievable 😳 Simple catch tha

Haan but script ki demand kuch aur hogi 😞

Heyyyyy.....itna asaan sa catch wo bhi best Fielders se

Script ki demand hogi bhai 😞

The script, no one ever expected.... Script that made us doubt...

Ab toh doubt bacha hi nahi.. in hindsight it all makes sense.

I can feel that anxiety of dropping an easy catch through the screen 😭

He was an excellent fielder. So it's tough for him to make it look a difficult catch.

Gaali cricket mein bhi aise catch nahi chodte. It looked on purpose.

One of those matches which fell under the "maine match banaye" category

@azharflicks 😂😂😂

He suffered a major dip in form in that series. His batting slump heavily weighed on his captaincy and uncharacteristically bled into his fielding, a discipline where he was widely regarded as one of the finest in the world. He dropped two incredibly straightforward catches in that game off the bowling of Manoj Prabhakar.

That caption took an unexpected turn. 🤯😂

Azhar was so good at fielding that he couldn't even fake it well...

The director will be pleased with the effort.

Azhar has betrayed India with Prabhakar, Jadeja, Mongia. They're into fixing deep down!

What was the script??

thats one big effing no ball..

This is purely fixed, how come he came out with clean chit 🫢

We were so innocent at that time not to see the problem

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Bookie son of a pig

Good Fielder but Bad Actor

Paise kitne liye they is chor ne catch chodhne ke

Arshdeep Singh tha kya cricketer 😂