IND vs WI: ‘My father is not Courtney Walsh': Windies Leg-spinner Hayden

Leg spinner Hayden Walsh keeps reminding anyone whom he meets that he is not the progeny of the former Windies pace bowling great Courtney Walsh.

Windies leg spinner Hayden Walsh gets repeatedly mistaken by cricket fans across the world as West Indies seam bowling legend Courtney Walsh's son. However, the leg spinner keeps reminding anyone whom he meets that he is not the progeny of the former Windies pace bowling great.“People, my father is not Courtney Walsh,” is what Hayden Walsh constantly tells people to remind them of his true identity. However, after an impactful performance with the ball  against India, the 27-year-old leg-spinner is confident that he will now be able to carve an identity of his own, where deceptive googlies will be discussed more than lethal bouncers.

“I was playing in the Canada T20 league and someone called me Courtney Walsh (laughs). So yeah...People my father is not Courtney Walsh. But I guess now they will now find out who I am and who is my father,” Walsh, who had figures of 2/28, including wickets of Shivam Dube and Shreyas Iyer said after the match.

He foxed a rampaging Dube with a loopy googly outside the off-stump, a trait he has developed bowling to southpaws like Evin Lewis and Nicholas Pooran. “I was bowling a lot to Evin (Lewis) and Nicholas (Pooran) in the nets. I was a bit confident coming in to bowl to him (Dube),” Walsh said. He was visibly elated as he is finally finding his feet in international cricket. “Yeah, it has been like a roller-coaster ride for me. As you can see, I have been working hard trying to find my way to the top into international cricket. Just to be here and perform in a game is just. I am over the moon,” he added.