Cricket Cauldron Quotes

“I could not help feeling that Inzamam discouraged the induction of players with educated, middle-class backgrounds like Bazid Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq or Hassan Raza. Often they were discounted with labels like ‘poor fielder’, ‘too old’ or ‘scared of quick bowling’. Inzamam preferred players who were prepared to conform.”
― Shaharyar M. Khan, Cricket Cauldron: The Turbulent Politics of Sport in Pakistan

“I recalled Ian Chappell’s comment that of all cricketing nations, Pakistan was the only team that he and his players found impossible to interact with socially after a day’s play.”
― Shaharyar M. Khan, Cricket Cauldron: The Turbulent Politics of Sport in Pakistan

“The reason for a Lahore-based cricketer being treated with a degree of animosity by the Karachi lobby (or vice versa a Karachi cricketer being treated similarly by the Lahore lobby) needs to be set in a wider context of historical regional and provincial tensions.”
― Shaharyar M. Khan, Cricket Cauldron: The Turbulent Politics of Sport in Pakistan