Cricket: A Bridge of Peace - Hardcover
This book is more than a cricketing journal. It is essentially about the impact of this ennobling sport on the minds of people. For the cricket enthusiast, the book provides an insight into the drama, on and off the field, that led to the Pakistan Cricket team's triumph in India and disaster in South Africa. Apart from purely cricketing analyses, the book covers issues such as match fixing allegations, neutral umpiring, captaincy and coaching.
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Shaharyar M. Khan, a direct descendant of Bhopal's ruling family, was born in 29 March 1934 in pre partition India and educated at Cambridge University. A career diplomat, he was Pakistan's Ambassador to Jordan (1976-82), High Commissioner to the UK (1987-90), Foreign Secretary (1990-94), UNSG's Special Representative in Rwanda (1994-96); and Pakistan's Ambassador to France. Mr Shaharyar Khan comes from a distinguished sporting family. His grandfather Nawab Hamidullah Khan was India's leading polo player, and his mother Princess Abida Sultaan was an outstanding squad, polo and hockey player, having won the all-India women's squad title in 1948. The Nawab of Pataudi senior was his uncle and Nawab of Pataudi junior his first cousin. Shaharyar M Khan is an avid cricketer and member of the MCC, and he played most of his cricket in England, captained Pakistan Wanderers and also played for Wimbledon CC, the leading cricket club of Pakistan.
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0195978366
- ISBN 13 9780195978360
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages230
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