Jonty Rhodes exploded onto the cricketing world 15 years ago with his calling card - fielding - in the 1992 World Cup. By the time South Africa played Pakistan his reputation was already being made but the run out of Inzamam-ul-Haq helped revolutionize the way the rest of the world approached fielding and cricket has not been the same since then. (Case in point, people like VVS Laxman, who would have walked into a World Cup squad in the past, are excluded primarily because of their ordinary fielding skills). (Click here to see a video of that runout).However, one of the biggest influences Jonty had, albeit unknown to him, was on a Hyderabadi lad who eventually went on to use the name as his pen name, after slightly adjusting the spelling!
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