For all that, this event witnessed an astounding turn a round by Pakistan. It was Gavaskar alone who'd envisioned Imran's team beating master strategist Martin Crowe's Kiwis in the first semi-final at Auckland's Eden Park on March 21. Later, Sunny talked of how he "saw it in their eyes" and "got the message from their body language". Next, in the March 25 final at the M C G, when Ian Botham and Gooch came out to chase Pakistan's 249, Botham was adjudged out by New Zealand's B.L. Aldridge— caught by Moin Khan off Akram for a duck. As Botham tarried, Aamir Sohail, symbolising the new Pakistani insouciance, walked up from midwicket to inform 'Guy The Gorilla' that he should've sent his mother- in -law! It was the relatively unknown Inzamam who'd played a key role in Pakistan's progress . He followed up his 60 in the semis against the Kiwis with a fine 42 in the final. Imran had already heralded Inzy as "potentially the Paki Viv Richards". The King himself was not playing— his plea to make the '92 Cup his last hurrah denied by the West Indies Cricket Board.