Pakistan: A Personal History · Chapter One

Can I Still Play Cricket in Heaven? 1947–1979

1947 — 1979

A Lahore childhood in the shadow of Partition — a close family, cricket in the streets of Zaman Park, and the quiet, devout influence of his mother Shaukat Khanum.

School at Aitchison and Worcester, then Keble College, Oxford to read PPE. Cricket carries him from the Lahore Gymkhana to a Test debut for Pakistan at Edgbaston in 1971.