10 Dressing room secrets in cricket history

3. Dawood Ibrahim’s visit to the Indian dressing room

Unlike today’s day and age where entering into a dressing room is not less than any felony, back in the 20th century there ain’t used to be much of the restrictions when it came to hovering around the players at the dugout. Especially in places like Sharjah where match-fixing used to be a big phenomenon, even members of the underworld like Dawood Ibrahim were viewed to pay a visit at team India’s dressing room.

As per the recalling done by the legendary Kapil Dev and by the great Dilip Vengsarkar, Dawood had entered into team India’s dressing room during the proceedings of the famous Sharjah Cup back in 1987. The underworld gangster had demanded that if team India is able to win the competition that had also included the other three strong teams (Pak, Eng, Aus) then each of its players along with the other officials will be gifted a Toyota car individually.

However, despite hearing such flattering offers, the Indian team had not only unanimously rejected Dawood’s demands but also had forcefully expelled him out by grabbing his collar and pushing him away.