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Dubai: Batsmen beware! If it is Dubai Modern High School's wicketkeeper Zamin Jaleel behind the wickets you could be stumped in a flash.
Jaleel recently produced five stumpings in an innings to equal the world record held by India's Kiran More against West Indies in Chennai in January 1988.
Jaleel wasn't born when it happened. This Grade Eight student has so far produced eight stumpings and taken two catches from two matches in the Green Valley Under-15 inter- school tournament organised by the Dubai Cricket Council.
In the Sharjah Rosy Blue Inter school tournament he stumped 23 batsmen and took four catches with a record eight dismissals in one match. So far he has stumped 31 batsmen.
In the match in which he stumped five Indian High School batsmen, he also hit an unbeaten 51 to steer his team to a 53-run win and walk away with the man of the match award.
"My school team manager Mohammad Saleem encouraged me to take up wicketkeeping. He is a wicketkeeper himself and taught me the basics. Our main coach Shafiq Ahmad further sharpened my skills," remarked Jaleel to Gulf News.
"I do a lot of fitness training to be flexible and work hard for two hours every alternate day," said Jaleel, who got interested in the game after joining the Insportz cricket academy.
"My idol is Mahendra Singh Dhoni and my aim is to become a wicketkeeper-batsman like him," said Jaleel, displaying his picture with the Indian captain when he visited Dubai last year.
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