God save me from bloody sissies!
V Ramnarayan dips into the past to write about his experiences of playing for Hyderabad Blues in foreign lands
...my performance under gruelling conditions in Penang against an RAF side, when Jai [Jaisimha] cursed me fluently after I asked to be taken off (the only time in my life), having run out of shirts and trousers, drenched in perspiration as never before or after in my career, and unable to grip the ball, the sweat simply pouring out from every pore in my body. “Stop giving me f---ing excuses! Can’t grip the ball indeed! God save me from bloody sissies!” he said. I had no option but to go on.
Sriram Veera is a former staff writer at ESPNcricinfo