Saeed Ahmed – The Upright Stance
Few Pakistani cricketers were as graceful as Fazal Mahmood, A. H. Kardar, Maqsood Ahmed, Waqar Hassan and Saeed Ahmed. Their…
Continue Reading...It’s Not Cricket
The Ashes controversies have always added spice to the occasion. The most recent such controversy was seen in the second…
Continue Reading...From Memory, Meeting the Greats
It is the unforgettable moments in one’s life that make life worthwhile. Remembering one’s first love or taking the first…
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...The Greatest All Rounder and Swashbuckler of All
Nobel Prize Winning English author, Rudyard Kipling, immortalized the city of Lahore with his all time best seller, ‘Kim’, which…
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...Fakir Syed Aizazuddin, the Fakir of Cricket
Fakir Syed Aizazuddin’s sms messages are still intact in my cell phone as if they had just arrived? We were supposed…
Continue Reading...Cricket in the Land of the Red Sun
Japan, a country known for its Shoguns, Samurais, Kabuki, Mama-Sans and Ryokan with Futons, saw the arrival of cricket on…
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...Justice Cornelius, Father of Pakistan Cricket
Although Lahore and Karachi had been one of the main cricket centers of India before partition but after Pakistan came…
Continue Reading...