However, individual brilliance flowers with alarming regularity when Indiaand Pakistan play. Zaheer Abbas, Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, and Javed Miandadreserved their best for the old rival. When they last played in India in 1999,Saqlain Mushtaq bagged four consecutive five-wicket hauls and Afridi, a one-dayspecialist, came up with a scintillating 141 in the Chennai Test. Two testslater in Calcutta, Shoaib Akhtar announced himself to the world by taking outRahul Dravid and Tendulkar off consecutive balls. Then there was Umar Gul atLahore last year, turning in a match-winning performance with the ball, andSalman Butt spoiling BCCI’s 75th anniversary celebrations at theEden Gardens with his bat.