Wesley Baressi returns to India for a World Cup, 12 years on, after a pushing several barriers ©Getty
"We'll never see or hear from you again"
Looking back on his 14-year international career, Netherlands veteran Wesley Barresi has few regrets, but he laughingly concedes he was slightly off the mark in his assessment of a young Virat Kohli. "Maybe I got slightly cocky that night, but looking at that Indian team, they had superstars galore, and Kohli was the youngster, the timing was perfect to hand out a bit of stick. He certainly proved us wrong."
Barresi readily admits delivering the send-off as the soon-to-be star was trudging back to the pavilion with 12 runs to his name, "bowled by one of Peter Borren's powder puffs"- swept up in the moment as India briefly stumbled chasing the Netherlands' meagre 189 in front of a Delhi crowd at the 2011 World Cup. "It was all part of the moment, and we were fired up. We had them on the ropes, they were three or four down, so we felt like we were in the game a little. It was an excellent opportunity to knock India over in India. The atmosphere and everything that was going on spurred us on a bit, and we might have gotten ahead of ourselves."
So it proved. For a brief moment the Dutch threatened, the hosts' top three had succumbed to Pieter Seelaar's left arm spin and Borren splitting Kohli's stumps was the fourth wicket to fall in the space of 30 runs, but a half-century stand between Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni