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Shadows Across the Playing Field

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by Shashi Tharoor


  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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