by admin | Dec 12, 2022 | scoreline
ScoreLine F.S. 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 to meet in March 2017 at Lahore and attend an unveiling ceremony at the Aitchison College cricket...
by admin | Dec 12, 2022 | scoreline
ScoreLine DEADLY: DEREK UNDERWOOD I don’t know if a special comet or star appeared the night Derek Underwood was born, but, if not, it had no business not doing so. ‘Deadly’, as he came to be, appropriately, named, was one of the most venomously intelligent bowlers,...
by admin | Dec 9, 2022 | scoreline
ScoreLine Mushtaq Ali The Eternal Stylist The dichotomy between how and how much… The debate between the relative worth of beauty and substance. This was never as much up for discussion as when the blade of Mushtaq Ali flashed in all its genius. Never more when he...
by admin | Dec 9, 2022 | scoreline
ScoreLine Saling: Pakistan’s Northern-most Cricketing Outpost For the first quarter century after acquiring ICC’s full member status, Pakistan’s cricket was primarily driven by cricketers from its two major cities, Karachi and Lahore. Test matches were staged at these...
by admin | Dec 9, 2022 | scoreline
ScoreLine England women’s cricket – the first seven hundred years The Bodleian Library at Oxford University has a manuscript with the earliest image of English people playing something that looks like cricket. It dates from 1344 CE. One of the players is a woman....
by admin | Dec 9, 2022 | scoreline
ScoreLine Big year for cricket in the USA He has maneuvered rough terrain to have cricket played due to the Covid-19 Pandemic and the man with the vision Mahammad Qureshi is promising an even better 2022 at the helm of Cricket Council USA (CCUSA). The 13th Edition of...
