|| CF Correspondent || 

Former Pakistan captain Inzamam Haq said that he would have scored 400 runs in Test against New Zealand in 2003 had he got proper support from other batsmen in the middle.

“It was too hot on that day. New Zealand players were totally exhausted as they were not used to such weather. From their body language I can guess as if they were asking me you may plunder as many runs as you wish but [please] allow us to go [out of the field],” Inzamam said on his YouTube channel TheMatchWinner while recalling the opening fixture of the two-match Test series against New Zealand at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore.

“We’d plenty of time. Runs were also coming quite freely. But the issue was that we didn’t have wickets in hand as the last man had arrived to accompany me. I asked him [the last man], ‘can you face two to three balls in an over if such a situation arises?’ But he looked at me with a smile as if he was saying, ‘no, you do whatever you want’. [So] I was left with no option but to hit sixes. Probably, in the over when I was caught out at the boundary, I’d already smashed three sixes. I just needed an hour to cross the 400 mark and set the world record but that opportunity was missed,” added Inzamam, who notched up a brilliant 329 on the second day of that clash.

According to Inzamam, that Test was the most memorable match of his life as in that he scored the highest runs of his career.

“I was also in a comfortable position to break Hanif Moha­mmad’s record of 337. But breaking a Pakistan cricket great’s record has never been my target as it could’ve been good for me as an individual player but I don’t think it was good for the country