Your father what goes ?

The late Fred Trueman was one of the most fearsome fast bowlers to have been produced by England. India had to bore the brunt of some of his most fearsome spells on the 1952 and 1959 tours. He also famously had an attitude to match. Raman Subba Row once dropped a catch of his bowling , letting the ball go between his legs. Raman said " Sorry Fred I should have kept my legs together" to which the response from Fred was a classic " No , your mom should have ! "

By 1967 though, Fred was past his prime, the pace had dimmed a bit , but not the attitude. The Indians who toured in the summer of 1967 played a county game against Yorkshire led by Trueman. The Indians had a frail looking parsee player called Rusi Surti. He was an agressive left handed bat and could bowl brisk left arm medium pace or spin. In India he was rather harshly by the media as " Poor Man's Sobers ". Surti was actually quite a good all-rounder but he belonged to that breed of people who provide yeoman service, but have no star appeal.

When the Indians batted, Trueman bowled a few bouncers to Surti. Surti hooked one for six. Fred met Surti mid pitch with the choicest of expletives. He got quite a few in return from Surti. Trueman was befuddled ! No one in county cricket dared to do that and here was a frail looking Indian locking horns. But it was Surti's last line that left Trueman speechless - " Your Father What goes ? " . Farokh engineer ( A parsee himself ) , later explained Trueman that Surti was literally translating a common parsee dialogue " Thara Baap nu su jaave ".