Javed Miandad: The ‘Six’ million dollar man!
K.C. Sharma’s Hukumat, premiered in March of the year 1987. Directed by his son Anil, the film was about an…
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Cricket has produced many great characters over the years, larger-than-life personalities who made their indelible mark on the cricket field….
Continue Reading...Mohammed Nissar, The Gentle Giant
Author Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (P. G. Wodehouse), comic novelist, short story writer, lyricist, and playwright, best known as…
Continue Reading...In Memory Of Shane Warne
I met Shane Warne only once. It was at Lord’s, but fortunately for me, not in the middle. I was…
Continue Reading...Cricket On Postage Stamps
Before the onslaught of the big-time media, video clips and selfies, where nothing is left to imagination, collecting postage stamps…
Continue Reading...A VICTORIAN LEGEND: DEAN JONES, 1961-2020
The cricket world was shocked to learn of the sudden death of the former Australian batsman Dean Jones at the…
Continue Reading...F. E. CHAUDHRY, The First Action Lensman
Not much of the early visual and print history of Pakistan cricket was ever preserved. There were scattered writers like…
Continue Reading...Johnny Briggs, Lancashire’s Popular 19th Century Hero
Was ever a cricketer more loved than Johnny Briggs? There may, I suppose, have been a few, but at his…
Continue Reading...Azhar, The revolving door at the crease
Batsman with magical wrists. Or batsman with 100 strokes. It seemed he was born to bat and Mohammad Azharuddin, at…
Continue Reading...Alan Knott: The eccentric gloveman
Huish, Hubble, Ames, Levett, Evans … great work behind the wickets has been a feature of Kent cricket for long….
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