“I am really happy to play with my son,” Nabi, 41, said. “I have been waiting for a long time to play together with him. I have prepared him as a professional cricketer. He performed very well on debut. We were in the same pitch together. I was telling him what was about to happen; what will the bowler do. Will he bowl fast or bowl a slower one. He was waiting for those balls, and he played really well.
“We spent 90 minutes yesterday to prepare him about the match today. I explained to him what type of bowlers he will face. I gave him a hard time with the [side-arm] stick. We worked on the pace. The way he batted out there, he shifted that knowledge into the match. There’s debut pressure for any youngster in this kind of platform. He managed it very well. He has prepared for the last 20 days for this moment, and he did really well.”
Eisakhil said that he had no regret of getting out in the nineties. “I was trying to hit sixes at that stage. I wanted to give my team a bigger total, so I am not disappointed to not be able to reach the hundred.”
Eisakhil added that he doesn’t consciously copy his father’s style of batting. “It is our dream that I play in the national team. That’s why I am working hard and focusing on domestic cricket. I don’t copy him. Everyone tells me this. But I bat like this naturally.”
Nabi, leaning forward this time, said: “It is his style. He is a natural.”
