India won by 5 runs.
Index
A Corner of a Foreign Field, 2, 32
Abbas, Zaheer, 11, 13, 38, 40, 47, 49, 51, 54, 114, 116, 118
Abdullah, Sheikh, 22
Abu Dhabi, 81, 121
Advani, L.K., 124, 127
Afghanistan, 62, 75, 162
Afridi, Shahid, 70, 71, 80
Ahmed, Ghulam, 20, 24, 27, 28, 37, 44, 88
Ahmed, Imtiaz, 25, 28, 109, 110, 111
Ahmed, Maqsood, 28, 111
Ahmed, Tauseef, 58-59
Ahmed, Younus, 57
Ahmed, Zulfiqar, 24
Akhtar, Shoaib, 9, 11, 79, 84, 121, 140, 149, 156
Akram, Wasim, 11, 14, 15, 58, 61, 65, 66, 72, 120, 121, 123, 157
Alam, Intikhab, 15
Ali, Major Wazir, 2, 5, 93, 95, 99, 102, 105, 109, 110, 111
Ali, Mushtaq, 95, 99, 109
Ali, Nazeer, 109, 110
Ali, Syed Abid, 52
Alimuddin, 109, 111
Altaf, Salim, 146
Amarnath, Lala, 8, 24, 30, 39, 99, 109, 113
Amarnath, Mohinder, 39, 42, 49
Amarnath, Surinder, 39, 40
Ambedkar, B.R., 98
Anwar, Saeed, 15, 60, 67-68, 71, 74, 125
Apartheid, 38, 94, 151
Arif, Taslim, 46
Arlott, John, 118
Asian Cricket Council, 145, 149
Asian Games (1982), 52
Asif, Mohammad, 18
Australia, 5, 33, 38, 53-55, 63, 67, 74, 79, 88, 92-93, 95, 97, 101, 109, 111, 118, 121, 144, 147, 148, 150, 151, 156, 158, 160
Ayub, Arshad, 59
Azad, Maulana Abul Kalam, 108
Azharuddin, Mohammad, 7, 15, 57, 58, 61, 73, 88, 120, 155
Aziz, Khalid, 115
Babri Masjid, 63, 64, 161
Baig, Abbas Ali, 7, 36, 88-89, 155
Bakht, Sikander, 44, 45
Baloo, Palwankar, 96, 97
Ball-tampering, 120
Bangalore, 44, 51, 57, 65, 66, 80, 82, 116, 117, 125, 140
Bangladesh, 14, 38, 59, 64, 82, 144, 146, 148, 156
Bari, Wasim, 42
Bedi, Bishen Singh, 38, 41, 89, 114-15
Bengal, 19, 107
Bharatiya Janata Party, 63, 69, 76, 150
Bhopal, 3, 5, 95, 102-06
Bhutto, Benazir, 62, 67, 117, 145
Binny, Roger, 46, 59
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), 69, 80, 100, 123, 129, 130, 131, 139, 140, 144-45, 146-48
Bodyline, 5-6, 92, 93-94, 106, 151
Bollywood (see Films also), 3, 86, 126, 133
Bombay (also see Mumbai), 2, 4, 5, 19, 21, 24, 25, 34, 38, 45, 61, 62, 63, 65, 83, 88, 95, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 108, 109, 113, 116
Bootawalla, Ahmad, 109
Borde, Chandu, 89
Bouncers, 6, 42
Bowes, Bill, 93
Boycott of match, 65, 100, 101, 123
Boycott, Geoff, 119
Bradman, Don, 11, 92
Brelvi, Syed Abdullah, 20, 108
British policy in India, 2, 85, 92, 93, 95, 98-100, 103, 107
British press, 36, 74
Bukhatir, Abdur Rahman, 52-53, 62, 121
Butt, Salman, 80
Butt, Shujauddin, 111
Calcutta, 24, 26, 27, 34, 36, 46, 59, 67, 71, 72, 79, 80, 95, 112
Canada, 68, 91, 107, 121,
Captaincy, 20, 33, 43, 47, 51, 53, 54, 65, 88, 89, 95, 98, 115, 155, 157, 166-9
Chandrashekhar, 40, 115
Chauhan, 40
Chingoka, Peter, 147-48
Chippa, U.R., 111
Christians: and cricket, 19, 20, 37, 89, 96, 99, 101, 103, 152, 153, 154, 155
Clark, Nobby, 94
Collector, K.R., 154
Communal teams, 2, 95, 99, 102
Compton, Denis, 99, 103
Congress Party, 2, 39, 99-101, 103, 107-08, 152, 153
Contractor, Nari, 89
Cornelius, Justice, 154
Cricket fans, 18, 21, 22, 35, 54, 57, 62, 66, 67, 72, 82, 87, 112, 113, 121, 122, 126, 133, 134, 136, 137, 139, 143, 150, 153, 155
Cronje, Hansie, 120
Cup,
Afro-Asia, 145, 146, 147, 148
Asia, 53, 59, 64, 74, 79
AusralAsia, 54-55, 59, 64
Coca-Cola, 74
DLF, 81
Future Friendship, 82
Independence, 67
Nehru, 59, 65
Pepsi, 67
Rothman’s, 54
Sahara, 74
Sharjah, 52
Singer, 64, 67
Videocon, 79
World, 2, 9, 11, 14, 22, 27, 51, 53, 56, 59, 63-64, 65, 67, 73, 74, 75, 82, 84, 129, 144, 146, 147, 148, 149, 156, 157
D’Mello, 100
D’Oliviera, 94, 151
D’Souza, Antao, 154
Dalmiya, Jagmohan, 128-29, 130, 131- 32, 133, 139, 140, 141, 144, 145-46
Dalpat, Anil, 154
Dar, Aleem, 116
Delhi, 24, 35, 44, 48, 52, 54, 69, 71, 82, 84, 112, 116, 123, 139, 146, 150
Dev, Kapil, 11, 40, 41, 43, 44, 46, 48, 49, 51, 53, 56, 61, 114, 118
Devi, Gayatri, 134
Dhoni, Mahendra Singh, 11, 80, 81
Diplomacy, 3, 8, 39, 56, 68, 73, 92, 122-126, 138
Dixit, Mani, 150
Dravid, Rahul, 11, 70, 74, 76, 79, 80, 81, 121, 124, 128, 135, 158
Duckworth-Lewis method, 81
Duleepsinhji, 97
Dungarpur, Raj Singh, 140
Durrani, Salim, 13, 88, 89
Elahi, Amir, 7, 23, 24, 26, 99, 109, 110, 111
England, 4, 5, 7, 11, 14, 23, 28, 33, 36, 53, 56, 57, 60, 73, 88, 89, 92-8, 101, 111, 118, 121, 145, 149, 151, 157, 158
Europeans; and cricket, 2, 19, 95, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103, 159
Faisalabad, 40, 49, 54, 81, 115, 141
Faqih, Ijaz, 57
Farhat, Imran, 79
Films (also see Bollywood), 9, 85, 86, 105, 126
Gaekwad, Anshuman, 45, 51
Gaekwad, Fatehsinghrao, 39
Gandhi, Indira, 16, 39, 48, 54
Gandhi, Mahatma, 20, 25, 92, 98, 99, 100, 107, 125, 152
Gandhi, Priyanka, 8, 133, 135, 141
Gandhi, Rahul, 8, 133, 135, 141
Gandhi, Rajiv, 8, 117
Ganguly, Sourav, 11, 70, 76, 82, 121, 124, 128, 158
Gavaskar, Sunil, 11, 13, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 46, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118
Ghazali, M.E.Z., 109, 111
Gill, M.S., 18
Guha, Ramachandra, 2, 32, 73
Gul, Umar, 79
Gupte, S.P., 28, 29, 113, 118
Hassan, Fida, 108
Hazare, Vijay, 24, 26, 89, 95, 99, 103
Hindu Mahasabha, 25, 112
Hindus: and cricket, 2, 6, 7, 8, 19, 90-91, 96-101, 103, 151, 152, 154
Hindu chauvinism, 6, 8, 63, 69, 73, 86, 90
Hindu-Muslim cricket rivalry, 1, 6, 96, 151-3
Holding, Michael, 119
Hussain, Anwar, 109, 111, 125
Hussain, Dilawar, 109, 110
Hutton, Len, 98, 151
Ibrahim, Dawood, 62
Ibrahim, K.C., 99, 109
Imperial Cricket Conference, 23
Independence (1947), 2, 19, 67, 94, 95, 98, 99, 101, 102, 107, 108, 111, 151, 152, 153, 156, 161
Indian Army, 22, 72, 127
Indian Premier League (IPL), 9, 10, 17, 18, 83, 84, 149
India-Pakistan combined team, 14
India-Pakistan relations, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 41, 53, 59, 60, 64, 70, 83, 86, 102, 114, 153
International Cricket Council (ICC), 53, 75, 110, 116, 120, 121, 122, 125, 128, 131, 143, 144, 146, 147, 148, 149, 153
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), 48, 127
Inzamam-ul-Haq, 11, 68, 76, 79, 80, 132, 135, 140, 142, 143, 155, 157-58
Iqbal, Asif, 37, 42, 43, 47, 48, 52, 118
Iqbal, Faisal, 81
Iran
i, Behram, 154
‘It isn’t cricket’, 5
Jadeja, Ajay, 65, 66, 12o
Jaffer, Wasim, 82
Jaipur, 8, 56, 117, 134
Jaisimha, M.L., 13, 34, 35
James, C.L.R., 5, 63
Jardine, Douglas, 5, 92-94, 98, 107, 151
Jeoomal, Naoomal, 109
Jilani, Baqa, 108
Jinnah, Mohammad Ali, 7, 32, 101, 107-08, 119, 133, 134
Kaif, Mohammad, 76-77
Kaneria, Danish, 21, 154
Kanpur, 34, 45, 80
Kapoor, Ashish, 14
Karachi, 8, 16, 25, 29, 30, 41, 49, 50, 66, 68, 69, 76, 78, 95, 109, 110, 111, 116, 129-31, 133, 134-36, 139, 141- 43, 145, 150, 156
Kardar, Abdul Hafeez, 7, 8, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 156, 157
Kargil, 17, 72-73, 74, 78, 127, 144, 161
Kashmir, 8, 17, 22, 25, 27, 31, 37, 56, 60, 62-63, 69, 75, 76, 107, 112- 13, 114, 117, 122, 127, 159
Khalistan, 48, 56, 60
Khan, Agha Ahmad Raza, 109
Khan, Air Marshal Nur, 47, 56, 115
Khan, Amin, 87
Khan, Ayub, 31, 32, 37, 59, 113, 154
Khan, Azam, 110
Khan, Hashim, 110
Khan, Imran, 1, 5, 11, 13, 16, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 79, 114, 115, 118, 120, 156, 157
Khan, Jahangir, 108, 110
Khan, Jansher, 110
Khan, Majid, 42, 44, 45, 114, 118
Khan, Mohsin, 49
Khan, Munawwar Ali, 111
Khan, Roshan, 110
Khan, Sir Muhammad Zafrullah, 112
Khan, Younus, 11, 80, 83, 155
Khan, Zaheer, 77, 90, 155
Khokar, Aslam, 111
Kirmani, Syed, 88
Kumble, Anil, 11, 14, 15, 70, 71, 79, 83, 128, 143
Kureishi, Omar, 118
Lahore, 1, 8, 10, 28, 30, 33, 40, 45, 49, 53, 66, 67, 72, 76, 78, 79, 80, 108, 110, 111, 119, 123, 126, 127, 129, 134, 135, 137, 141, 143, 160, 161
Laker, Jim, 119
Lakhani, Amin, 40
Lal, Madan, 49
Lama, Dalai, 139-40, 143
Larwood, Harold, 92-93
Latif, Rashid, 15
Laureus International Sports Forum, 138
Laxman, V.V.S., 77, 82, 121, 128
Lee, Brett, 120
Line of Control, 86, 127
Lucknow, 24, 25, 112, 156, 157
Madras (Chennai), 24, 33, 34, 45, 70, 95, 124
Mahmood, Fazal, 11, 24, 28, 33, 34, 35, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113. 157
Major, Sir John, 94-95, 151
Maka, Ebrahim Suleiman, 20, 109
Mali, Ray, 147, 148
Malik, Aamer, 61
Malik, Salim, 54, 59, 65, 66, 120
Malik, Shoaib, 21, 83
Mani, Ehsan, 131
Manjrekar, Sanjay, 60
Mankad, Vinoo, 11, 24, 25, 28, 29, 33, 113, 124
Marker, Jamsheed, 118
Match-fixing, 65, 120, 121
Mathias, Wallis, 154
MCC, 19, 92, 93, 98, 111, 115
McGilvray, Alan, 118
McGrath, Glen, 149
Mehromji, R.P., 99
Menon, Krishna, 31, 112
Menon, Shiv Shankar, 137, 150
Merchant, Vijay, 11, 95, 124, 125, 152, 153
Merriman, Bob, 144
Miandad, Javed, 11, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 48, 49, 51, 55, 65, 66, 114, 118, 121, 123
Misbah-ul-Haq, 83
Mistry, K.M., 99
Modi, Rusi, 99
Mohali, 79, 126, 133, 136, 139, 140
Mohammad, Hanif, 10, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 34, 35, 36, 51, 68, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113
Mohammad, Khan, 24, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113
Mohammad, Gul, 20, 33, 95, 109, 111
Mohammad, Mushtaq, 13, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 114, 118
Mohammad, Nazar, 23, 24, 42, 111, 112
Mongia, Nayan, 70
Morocco, 121
Morris-Jones, W.H., 32
Mujahideen, 56, 62
Mumbai (also see Bombay), 10, 17, 65, 69, 91, 105, 123, 124, 130, 140, 145, 147, 160, 161
Musharraf, Pervez, 74, 75, 76, 127- 28, 131, 134, 139, 154
Mushtaq, Saqlain, 70, 71, 121
Muslim League, 2, 19, 25, 161
Muslims: and cricket, 2, 6, 7, 19, 20, 21, 26, 63, 77, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 95, 96, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 107, 108, 152, 154, 155
Naqshabandi, Maulana, 66
Naved-ul-Hasan, 80
Nawaz, Sarfraz, 6, 11, 40, 41, 42, 118, 120
Nayudu, Col. C.K., 2, 93, 95, 99, 101, 103, 105, 124, 153
Nazar, Mudassar, 42
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 6, 23, 25, 31
Nehruvian, 6, 26
New Zealand, 33, 55, 129, 144, 147, 148
Nissar, Mohammad, 93, 99, 105
Noman, Omar, 27
Nuclear arms, 8, 69, 71, 85, 87, 122, 159
O’Connor, Craigh, 144
One-day internationals (ODIs), 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 17, 22, 39, 41, 42, 49, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 59, 68, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 116, 126, 129, 131, 133, 135, 136. 137, 139, 140, 141, 158
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), 3, 31, 56, 110, 115, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 138, 143, 144, 145, 154, 157, 160
Pakistan, East, 14, 25, 27, 28, 38, 114, 155
Parkar, Ghulam, 45
Parsis: and cricket, 2, 19, 20, 37, 89, 95, 96, 99, 100, 101, 103, 152, 153, 154
Partition, 2, 6, 7, 8, 13, 15, 17, 20, 23, 25, 30, 31, 37, 71, 76, 85, 88, 107, 109, 110, 113
Pataudi, Mansur Ali Khan, 88, 95, 97
Patel, Vallabhai, 99, 107
Pathan, Irfan, 11, 77, 81, 82, 89, 90, 142, 155
Patil, Sandeep, 45, 46, 84
Pawar, Sharad, 140-41, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149
Pentagular tournaments, 2, 3, 6-7, 21, 90, 99-109,152-3
Prabhakar, Manoj, 61
Prasad, Rajendra, 25
Prasad, Venkatesh, 70
Prasanna, 40
Punjab, 23, 41, 48, 107, 108, 113, 126, 129, 131, 136
Qadir, Abdul, 51, 59, 114, 121, 157
Qasim, Iqbal, 45, 54, 58
Quadrangular tournaments, 2, 19, 99, 103, 106, 152, 153
Radio, 29, 43, 48, 107, 108, 113, 126, 129, 131, 136
Raja, Rameez, 58, 68
Raja Ramiz, 119
Raja, Wasim, 42, 44
Ramesh, Sadagoppan, 71
Rana, Shakoor, 39, 53, 60, 115
Ranjitsinhji, 97, 124
Rauf, Asad, 116
RAW, 127
Razzaq, Abdul, 121
Rhodes, Wilfred, 36, 96
Rushdie, Salman, 89
SAARC, 128, 131, 142
Saeed, Mian, 108, 111
Sectarianism, 6, 21
Sehwag, Virender, 9, 11, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 134
Shah, Niranjan, 146
Sharif, Nawaz, 62, 123, 126, 127, 145, 161
Sharjah, 4, 16, 52-53, 54, 55, 59, 62, 63, 64, 67, 74, 121, 122
Sharma, Chetan, 55
Sharma, Yashpal, 46
Sharpe, Duncan, 154
Shastri, Ravi, 54, 57, 119
Shiv Sena, 6, 63, 65, 69, 71, 90, 123, 130, 150
Shodhan, Deepak, 24, 27
Shukla, Rajiv, 131, 139
Sidhu, Navjot, 61, 65
Sikh, 20, 30, 37, 48, 89, 107, 136
Simpson, Reg, 99
Sindh, 7, 41, 84, 109, 129, 131
Singh, Amar, 93, 99, 124
Singh, Harbhajan, 71, 128
Singh, Jaswant, 127
Singh, Maninder, 58
Singh, Manmohan, 139
Singh, Natwar, 139
Singh, Yuvraj, 78, 81, 82
Sobers, Gary, 33, 50
Sohail, Aamer, 65, 66, 125
South Africa, 2, 38, 67, 75, 82, 94, 120, 144, 146, 147, 148, 151
South Asia, 7, 9, 10, 53, 55, 64, 65, 73, 119, 121, 133, 144, 146, 149, 155, 156
Sri Lanka,
9, 10, 14, 16, 53, 55, 59, 64-65, 67, 68, 69, 72, 75, 78, 79, 111, 118, 121, 122, 144, 146, 148, 149, 156
Srikkanth, Kris, 61
Srinath, 66, 121
Symonds, Andrew, 149
Taj Mahal Hotel, 10, 105
Talyarkhan, A.F.S., 29, 118
Tarrant, Frank, 99
Tashkent, 37
Tebbitt, Norman, 7
Television/TV, 9, 39, 43, 55, 66, 67, 72, 82, 83, 87, 117, 118, 119, 121, 127, 133, 134, 143, 146, 154, 156,158
Tendulkar, Sachin, 11, 15, 61, 70, 71, 74, 76, 80, 115, 121, 124, 125, 126, 128, 134, 156
Terrorism, 10, 17, 56, 69, 75, 85, 86, 91, 122, 127, 132, 160-62
Thackeray, Bal, 63, 65, 69, 73, 90, 123, 124, 150
Toronto, 4, 16, 67, 68, 69, 74
Tribe, George, 111
Trophy, Champions’, 56, 59, 75, 121, 160
Trophy, Ranji, 2-3, 19, 108, 109, 152
Trophy, Wills, 62
Twenty20, 6, 21, 82, 148, 149-50
Umar, Qasim, 54
Umpiring, 5, 6, 16, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 47, 49, 50, 53, 54, 56, 60, 61, 62, 98, 103, 109, 115-16, 117, 121, 122, 124, 156
Umrigar, Polly, 24, 35, 89
United Nations (UN), 4, 22, 27, 107, 112, 138, 149
United States (US), 4, 27, 31, 91, 107, 113, 136, 162
Vajpayee, Atal Behari, 72, 75-76, 126, 127, 128, 131
Vengsarkar, Dilip, 40, 44, 54, 57, 58
Venkataraghavan, 116
Viswanath, 40, 49
Vizianagram, Maharajkumar of, 30, 95, 152
Wadia, Dina, 133-34
Wadia, Nusli, 133, 141
Wazir, Khalid, 109
West Indies, 5, 7, 23, 28, 33, 54, 56, 82, 94, 110, 111, 115, 121, 122, 144, 147, 148, 158
Woolmer, Bob, 140, 142, 158
Youhana, Yousuf (also see Yousuf, M. also), 11, 20, 154, 155
Younus, Waqar, 11, 14, 65, 70, 120, 121, 157
Yousuf, Mohammad, 11
Yousuf, Saleem, 58
Yuvraj of Patiala, 92
Zardari, Asif, 161
Zia, General Tauquir, 144
Zia-ul-Haq, 8, 39, 43, 48, 53, 56, 61, 62, 116-17, 154
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