On his first overseas tour, the young innocent asked Miandad how much he would have to pay to play in the series. The lad who arrived in New Zealand in 1984-85 without a pair of proper bowling shoes eventually graduated into one of the world's most feared fast bowlers.
He started out as a ferocious quick who could bowl big inswingers. Once when captain Imran Khan asked him to bowl a yorker, he failed to do so, admitting later that he did not know what a yorker meant.