sohail played a big role in pakistans world-cup triumph in  famously telling ian botham that he might want to send his mother-in-law in to bat referring to bothams statement that he wouldnt send even his mother-in-law to pakistan after botham was controversially given out for nought in the final sohails most infamous moment on the cricket field however was in the  world cup quarter final against arch rival india in bangalore sohail was captaining the side in pursuit of a relatively large target of  in  overs with opening partner saeed anwar he got pakistan off to a flying start with the score at  for one and saeed anwar  back in the pavilion sohail smashed a delivery from indian seamer venkatesh prasad through the covers for four both players exchanged words and sohail unnecessarily pointed his finger aggressively at prasad the next delivery clean-bowled him and triggered a batting collapse which ultimately lost the game and eliminated pakistan from the competition