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XtraTime Web Desk: On 18^th April, 1986, legendary Pakistan cricketer Javed Miandad hit a final ball six against India to win the final of Austral-Asia Cup. The former Pakistan captain smacked six off Chetan Sharma’s bowling that led Pakistan to beat India. That final ball shot not only echoed the world over but is still being heard 34 years after that historic win. It became an iconic moment in cricket history that still gives goosebumps whenever you recall it. The feat is remarkable as Pakistan needed four runs off the final ball. Miandad did not succumb to pressure and sent the ball out of the park bowled by Chetan Sharma, giving the cricket fans a memory to cherish forever. However, interestingly former pacer Wasim Akram has revealed that it was his bat that the great Miandad used when he hit the winning six. “Some moments are etched in your memory and Javed Miandad hit that epic six against India at Sharjah is one of them. It’s a piece of cricket beauties. Whenever you watch it, it gives you real joy and tells how great a batsman he was. By the way, the bat from which that six was hit was mine,” Akram tweeted. #OnThisDay (April 18) in 1986, Pakistan earned their first victory in a major tournament by lifting the Austral-Asia Cup. It was that memorable Sharjah classic that ended with Javed Miandad smacking a mighty six off the final ball of the match bowled by India's Chetan Sharma. The men in green needed 246 to win the match and were reduced to 61/3. Miandad walked out to bat and played a blinder of 116 not out. In this innings he struck three boundaries and same number of maximums. Today, fans and former cricketers share the iconic clip with interesting comments to relive the moment of history. The shot sometimes it feels like it is still echoing around Sharjah Cricket Stadium, too, 34 years later. Pakistan needed four off the last ball to win the biggest and most ambitious competition yet staged in the UAE. They had their last-wicket pair at the crease. In opposition, their fiercest rivals, India. On strike, Javed Miandad. The player Greg Chappell, the Australian great, once described thus: “If you want someone to bat for your life, Javed Miandad is the man to do it.” It might not have been as serious as that, but at least one of the central protagonists has had most of his sporting life defined by that moment, reported The National, a UAE newspaper. “Whoever meets me for the first time, the first question that comes is about the last-ball six that Javed Miandad hit me for,” Chetan Sharma, the unlucky bowler, later said. “It keeps happening. I have even started enjoying it now.” That Sharjah stadium has by now hosted a world-record tally of 240 one-day internationals, but this one stands above the rest. Having swung Sharma’s final delivery away into the crowd to seal the title, Miandad has subsequently suggested it might have been one of the seminal moments in one-day international cricket, let along Sharjah cricket, the paper further stated. “My last-ball six in the final of the Australasia Cup in Sharjah in 1986 to beat India changed the game in a way,” Miandad has said. “Teams, officials, players and, most importantly fans, all started to believe in the format and its potential.” On the day, every seat was taken – and then some – for the final of a tournament that had also included Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka. It was packed to the rafters. The scorecard states that India made 245-7, and Pakistan chased them thanks to an unbeaten century for Miandad. But they are mere details. In truth, it was all about the final blow. Even the vanquished knew they would not forget it. “It’s certainly one of the best games I’ve played in, anywhere in the world,” said India all-rounder turned broadcaster Ravi Shastri, who also later professed to “hate Miandad’s guts”. “I’ll never forget the excitement out there. But it was a special era back then. That match sums up the spirit of so many thrilling contests in the 1980s.”