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.……….A story of an incomplete revenge

In the 1992 Cricket World Cup, cricket truly looked like a contemporary festival under floodlights with white balls, vivid colored attire, stump vision cameras, and statistical chaos. In one of the league games, Zimbabwe was playing against the Kiwis at Napier.

New Zealand managed a formidable 162, which proved to be a huge task for the Zimbabweans. They could only muster 105 on the scoreboard, ending up losing the game by a big margin. Zimbabwean batsman Andy Waller and New Zealand all-rounder Rod Latham were part of the playing XI for their respective teams. Unfortunately for both of them, it was not a very memorable outing. Latham got out cheaply and had no success while bowling, whereas Waller could only manage 11 runs before returning to the pavilion.

From this usual game, something unusual was about to happen. Although, not on that day but two decades later.

In a rare coincidence after 20 years, Zimbabwean cricket teams toured New Zealand for a bilateral series. In this series, while playing at Napier, the Kiwis could manage a gigantic 373 runs, and once again Zimbabwe lost the game by an enormous margin of 202 runs. In this game, Malcolm Waller, son of Andy Waller, and Tom Latham, son of Rod Latham, represented their teams at the same venue, Napier, where their previous generation played 20 years back in 1992. For Jr. Waller, it was a typical dramatic movie-style opportunity to pay back the favors, but this time as well, the Black Caps were proven to be too good for the visitors, and once again Latham-the second defeated the next-gen of Waller. The revenge story maintained its status quo.

Who knows, after a couple of decades, once again we may see a third generation of Latham-Waller playing against each other to create the rarest to rare chapter in cricket history. After all, the only certain thing in the game of cricket is uncertainty.