5 instances when the bowler broke a batsman's bat

#2 Javed Miandad

A young fan collected pieces of Miandad’s broken bat as souvenir

In a 1993 match between Pakistan and South Africa, Javed Miandad’s bat broke in half as he tried to hit a ball from Meyrick Pringle. One of the commentators called it an ‘unusual’ incident and correctly so, as it wasn’t a fast ball but a slower from the bowler.

Miandad signaled his dressing room to send the wicketkeeper’s bat while the commentator joked, “I don’t think there would be many volunteers in the dressing room now willing to lend their bats.” A young fan got lucky because of this incident and collected the broken pieces of the bat as a ‘Javed Miandad souvenir’.