4 Supernatural incidents in cricket
“Have you ever been alone at night? Thought you heard footsteps behind and turned around and…no one’s there. And as you quicken up your pace, you find it hard to look again because you are sure that someone’s there…”As Steve Harris strums up a harmonious bassline, Bruce Dickinson shouts out these lines from Iron Maiden’s famous track, Fear of the Dark, giving an eerie feel of familiarity whenever one listens to it.We have all experienced weird things around us at some point or the other. Sometimes, you wake up in the middle of the night for no particular reason only to find yourself ceaselessly perspiring and feeling the presence of another entity in the room.Sometimes, you are awoken by the sound of an open water tap in your washroom and you are perplexed because only you have access to the washroom and no-one else.Sometimes, some feelings are so strong that it refuses to leave the mind for a long time.Supernatural incidents could occur in any given place or time and, most terrifyingly, with anyone. Paranormal activities can be found even in cricket as there have been quite a few reports of such events from the gentlemen’s game.And here are 4 such incidents…
#1 Haris Sohail
While Pakistan’s ODI cricket team has become a nightmare for their fans, all-rounder Haris Sohail had his own demonic interventions. He slept in his hotel room peacefully at the Rydges Latimar Hotel at Christchurch when suddenly his bed shook for no apparent reason.
He woke up and called the team manager, Naveed Cheeva, quicker than it takes Shahid Afridi to do or say something stupid.
When Cheeva went to check on him, he found that the player was visibly shaken and feverish, with a “nightmare.” Sohail, however, was adamant that he was a victim of supernatural experience--so much that he had troubling coping with it for quite some time.
One can never say for sure what exactly happened, but what one can be sure of is that Haris Sohail has never slept another night without chanting some prayer verses ever since.