August , 2006
Fazal Mahmood once more
I haven't kept my promise. As I went visiting Pakistan, I haughtily wrote in that I would certainly recount all my experiences there. Did start off well, but somehow, couldn't quite keep it going. Yet I clearly remember all that I've come across. And as I saw the date today, I remembered one particular story I had thought about filing today. Yes, as I came out of 95-B, Allama Iqbal Road in Ghari Shahu on a windy January afternoon, I had promised myself that I would do this story. On time.
To know what it is all about, lets go back to the seventeenth day of August, 1954.
At 109 for 2, England needed just 59 runs to complete a 2-0 sweep of their test series against the first-time visitors Pakistan. But one man had different ideas alltogether...
With his deceptive late movement and those famous....




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