Former India swashbuckling batsman Salim Durrani goes down memory lane in an exclusive conversation with Haresh Pandya.
The true class and calibre of a player can by judged in Tests only, not in one-day or Twenty20 cricket, says former India great Salim Durrani.
There is a more authentic Indian cricket connection to Afghanistan and that is through the family roots of Iftikhar Ali Khan, the Nawab of Pataudi.
'I am not envious of those who are making millions. It's their era and I had my era.'
Twenty-one of the accused have been acquitted or given benefit of doubt while the court is yet to pronounce its\nverdict on 27 accused, including filmstar Sanjay Dutt.
Five brothers playing first class cricket, including four appearing in Test matches as well, reads like a fairy tale. But it is true. Indeed, cricket historians and statisticians have never been tired of recounting how Hanif Mohammad, who passed into the ages on August 11, and his three brothers dominated Pakistan cricket in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Apart from Hanif, eldest Wazir Mohammad and younger ones Mushtaq Mohammad and Sadiq Mohammad represented Pakistan in the top division of cricket.
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