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When Musharraf told Lakshmipathy Balaji: ‘You are a great soldier… I salute your spirit’ | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Lakshmipathy Balaji turned out to be the cynosure of all eyes during the Indian cricket team's tour of Pakistan in 2004 with his on-field exploits so much so that the then president Gen Pervez Musharraf saluted his spirit and hailed him as a great soldier fighting bravely for the team.He was also cheered by girls when he visited the Wagah border and by a group of students at Lahore University, recalls cricket administrator Amrit Mathur, who was the team's media manager, in his memoir "Pitchside: My Life in Cricket".In the book, Mathur brings alive insightful first-person accounts of some of Indian cricket's most memorable moments with anecdotes, events and matches.In the 2004 tour, India and Pakistan played five one-day international matches and three Tests. India won the ODI...