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benefit season
Benazir Bhutto’s views on I.K.
boarding school in Worcester
bowling technique (introduces the ‘little jump’)
broadcaster
captaincy
celebrity status
charity work see also Shaukat Khanum
childhood and schooling
children with Jemima
clairvoyants
Clint Eastwood, compared to
coaching, modern aids, use of
cricket magazine, launch of
daughter, Tyrian Jade White
depression
disagreement with BCCP
dislike of perceived criticism
divorce
drugs
elected to parliament
engaged, and the Goldsmiths’ reaction to
fashion sense
father’s death
feud with MQM
finances, see also salary
first Pakistani representative match
first tour (to England)
girlfriends/sex life, see also Kristiane Backer, Susannah; Constantine, Jemima; Goldsmith, Emma Sergeant and Sita White
gossip directed at I.K.
house arrest
injuries
insecurity
journalism
last pro appearance in England
loner
Majid Khan, relationship with
male entourage
marriage
marriage, possible arranged
media, dislike of
memoir, and reaction to
mentored by John Snow
Middlesex, approached by
mother’s death
New South Wales
offer to join pro-government alliance
on 9/11 and ‘war on terror’
on anti-Islam prejudice
on BCCP
on being a celebrity
on Benazir Bhutto
on bouncer ruling
on cheating
on county cricket
on David Constant
on England cricket authorities
on Javed Miandad, see also Javed Miandad
on marriage to Jemima
on multilateral disarmament
on Pakistani cricketers
on President Musharraf
on Muttahida Qaumi Movement
on neutral umpires
on Newsweek Koran story
on Pakistani captaincy
on the media
Oxford Univ., see also Oxford Univ.
pitch invasion, repels
political attacks on I.K.
political fundraising in US
politics/political views, see also Tehreek-e-Insaf
public persona
racism
registration problems with Sussex
relationship with England cricket authorities
religion
belief in predestination
resigns from ICC
Rest of the World v MCC
retires
salary
sex symbol
Shaukat Khanum hospital (and funding)
smuggling charges
social justice/reform, concern with
South Africa, offer to play in
speeches
suspended by the TCCB
Sussex
Tehreek-e-Insaf
Test century, first
Test comeback
Test debut
Test record v. India
Test results when captain
TV interviewing
UNICEF, works for
volatility
women, attitudes to
Worcestershire
World Series Cricket (WSC)
Yorkshire, approached by
Khan, Jahangir
Khan, Jemima see Jemima Goldsmith
Khan, Majid
Khan, Mohsin
Khan, Moin
Khan, Rashid
Khan, Shakeel
Khan, Yahya
Kureishi, Javed
Kureishi, Omar
Laker, Jim
Lal, Madan
Lamb, Allan
Lancashire
Lara, Brian
Larwood, Harold
Lawson, Geoff
Leicestershire
Lenham, Neil
Lewis, Chris
Lewis, Tony
Lillee, Dennis
Lindwall, Ray
Lloyd, Clive
Lloyd, David
Long, Arnold
Luckhurst, Brian
Mahmood, Asif
Malik, Salim
Mallett, Ashley
Maqsood, ‘Merry Max’
Marks, Vic
Marri, Sher Mohammad
Marsh, Rodney
Marshall, Malcolm
Martin-Jenkins, Christopher
Masood, Asif
match fixing
MCC
Mendis, Gehan
Mermagen, Jonathan
Meyer, Barry
Miandad, Javed
as captain
clash with Dennis Lillee
criticisms/views of
deposed/resigns as captain
deposed as coach
impatience
on/relationship with I.K.
retirement
sledging
tax problems
Middlesex
Milburn, Colin
Miller, Keith
Minor Counties
Mohammad, Hanif
Mohammad, Mushtaq
Mohammad, Sadiq
Mohammad, Shoaib
Mudassar, Nazar
Murray, John
Musharraf, Pervez
Naeem-ul-Haque
Naqqash, Tahir
Naseem, Rafi
Nasim-ul-Ghani
Nawanagar, Maharajah Jam Saheb of (Ranjitsinhji, K.S.)
Nawaz, Sarfraz
Nazir, Mohammad
New South Wales
New Zealand
Nicholas, Mark
Northamptonshire
Nottinghamshire
Omar, Qasim
Oxford Univ.
Packer, Kerry
Pakistan see also Pervez Musharraf 7/7 terrorist attacks
anti-terrorist operations
anti-US riots
birth of, and political turmoil
clerics, importance of
corruption
civil unrest/war
disputes with India
earthquake of 2005
military coup
patriarchal culture
poverty line
prime minister’s powers, unchecked
voting malpractice
Pakistan cricket team see also ball tampering and umpires
adulation
bad press
drugs
financial feud
internal problems
make cheating accusation
match fixing
pay protest
perceived racist remarks against
pitches, pro-spin, anti-pace
players’ revolt
problems with English
officialdom/media
sledging
structure of Pakistani cricket
success under I.K.
tensions with English cricket
throwing matches see also match fixing
Twenty20 World Cup
World Cup, (beating England in Final)
World Series Cricket (WSC) and potential boycott against Pakistan, see also ball tampering and umpires
matches against:
Australia
Bangladesh
Canada
England, (abandoned tour)
Hampshire
India
Ireland
Minor Counties
New Zealand
Northamptonshire
Nottinghamshire
&nb
sp; Scotland
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Surrey
Tasmania
Warwickshire
West Indies
Yorkshire
Zimbabwe
Palmer, Ken
Parker, John
Parker, Paul
Partition
Pathans
PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board)
Phillipson, Paul
Pigott, Tony
pitch invasions see also crowd violence
Pocock, Pat
Popplewell, Nigel
Pridgeon, Paul
Princess of Wales, Diana
Pringle, Chris
Pringle, Derek
Procter, Mike
Qadir, Abdul
Qasim, Iqbal
Queensland
racism
Raja, Ramiz
Raja, Wasim
Rana, Azmat
Rana, Shakoor
incident with Mike Gatting
Ranatunga, Arjuna
Randall, Derek
Rashid, Haroon
Raza, Akram
Reeve, Dermot
Reporter, P.D.
reverse swing
Rice, Clive
Richards, Barry
Richards, Viv
Richardson, Richie
Roberts, Andy
Roebuck, Peter
Roope, Graham
Roux, Garth le
Salahudin, Yusuf
Sami, Mohammad
Scotland
Selvey, Mike
Sergeant, Emma
Sharif, Nawaz
Shaukat Khanum hospital see Imran Khan
Shepherd, John
Simmons, Jack
sledging
Small, Gladstone
Smith, Robin
Snow, John
Sobers, Garry
Sohail, Aamir
Somerset
South Africa
Sri Lanka cricket team
Steele, David
Stewart, Alec
Stewart, Micky
Surrey
Swanton, E.W.
Sussex see also I.K.
Taliban
Tasmania
Tavare, Chris
Taylor, Bob
Taylor, Ian
Taylor, Mark
TCCB
Tehreek-e-Insaf see Imran Khan
Tendulkar, Sachin
Tennant, Ivo
Thatcher, Margaret
Thomson, Jeff
Trueman, Fred
Turner, Glenn
Tyson, Frank
umpires
abuse of
bad decisions/controversies see also David Constant and Ken Palmer
‘kidnapping’ of
Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana
neutral
Underwood, Derek
Ustinov, Peter
Vahidy, Syra
Vengsarkar, Dilip
Viswanath, Gundappa
Voce, Bill
Vockins, Mike
Walsh, Courtney
Warne, Shane
Warwickshire
Waugh, Mark
Waugh, Steve
Wells, Colin
Wessels, Keppler
West Indies cricket team
White, Sita
White, Tyrian Jade
Willis, Bob
Wisden
Woolmer, Bob
Worcestershire
World Cup
World Series Cricket (WSC)
Worrell, Frank
Yorkshire
Younis, Waqar
Yousuf, Salim
Zardari, Asif Ali
Zia-ul-Haq, Muhammad, General
Zimbabwe
Acknowledgements
First, Imran Khan. Although trying to pin him down proved nearly as challenging as was descending into the briar patch of Pakistani politics, he turned out to be a patient and generous interviewee. Reflecting the rather mobile nature of his life, we spoke by phone over a nine-month period when Imran was variously in London, Brussels, Lahore, Islamabad and aboard an Amtrak sleeper train somewhere on America’s eastern seaboard. He made no conditions and did not ask for advance approval of the manuscript, for which I’m grateful. Although one or two of his long-time opponents declined the offer to speak, occasionally after venting at me, the research process generally was productive and tantrum-free. Writing this book after one on Roman Polanski was like drinking a glass of sparkling mineral water after gorging on heavily salted nuts. I only wish I could blame someone listed below for the shortcomings of the text. They are mine alone.
For recollections, input or advice I should thank, institutionally: Abacus, Aitchison College, Atlantic Monthly, Bookcase, Bookends, the British Library, British Newspaper Library, Chronicles, CIA, the Complete Line, CricInfo, CricketArchive, the Cricketers Club of London, Cricket Lore, Daily Mail, Dawn, FBI — Freedom of Information Division, Focus Fine Arts, General Register Office, Golem, Palgrave Macmillan, MCC, MultiMap, Office of the President, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Orbis, Oxford University Cricket Club, Public Record Office, Renton Public Library, Seattle Cricket Club, Seattle Public Library, Slate, the Spectator, Sussex CCC, The Times, Vanity Fair, Vital Records, Worcestershire CCC.
Professionally: Qamar Ahmed, the late Les Ames, Aslam Anwar, Jeffrey Archer, Fareshteh Aslam, Trevor Bailey, Johnny Barclay, the late Ken Barrington, Alec Bedser, Daphne Benaud, Richie Benaud, Dickie Bird, Rob Boddie, Ian Botham, Kathy Botham, Geoff Boycott, Mike Brearley, Rodney Cass, the late Denis Compton, Melinda Cooksey, Dar, Dave Davies, Ted Dexter, Basil D’Oliveira, Sally Donaghue, the late Godfrey Evans, Gus Farley, Judy Flanders, George Galloway, Alix Gibb, Tony Gill, Jim Gillespie, David Gower, Tom Graveney, Jackie Graveney, Hugh Griffiths, Richard Hadlee, Naeem ul-Haque, Debbie Harris, Janet Harris, Antao Hassan, the late Reg Hayter, Alastair Hignell, the late Len Hutton, Asif Iqbal, Mick Jagger, Sarah Jones, Chris Kelly, Javed Kureishi, the late Omar Kureishi, Allan Lamb, the late Chris Lander, Neil Lenham, the late Tony Lock, John Major, Vic Marks, Jonathan Mermagen, Abdul Mirza, Mohammad Akram Mirza, Linda Morris, Jock Mullard, Colleen Murray, John Murray, Tahir Nawaz, Liz Neto, Mark Newton, Mark Nicholas, Barry Norman, the late Kerry Packer, Paul Parker, Peter Perchard, Tony Pigott, the late Harold Pinter, Nigel Popplewell, Dr. Simon Porter, Alison Prince, Derek Pringle, Abdul Qadeer, Abdul Qadir, the late Wasim Raja, Derek Randall, Haroun Rashid, Tim Rice, the late Graham Roope, Dicky Rutnagur, Yusuf Salahudin, Mike Selvey, Waris Sharif, Dennis Silk, Diana Silk, the late Peter Smith, Alex Stacey, Anne Stenson, Jack Surendranath, Angela Lue Taim, Jonathan Taylor, Ivo Tennant, Fred Titmus, the late Fred Trueman, Tony Vinter, Rev. Mike Vockins, Tom Whiting, Karen Wishart, Ali Zaidi.
Personally: Adis, Air Canada, Arvid Anderson, Rev. Maynard Atik, the Attic, Pete Barnes, the late Terry Bland, Bob Bridge, Hilary and Robert Bruce, Cocina, Common Ground, Ken Crabtrey, Roz Cranstoun-Corby, Celia Culpan, Deb K. Das, the Davenport, Mark Demos, Monty Dennison, the Dowdall family, John and Barbara Dungee, Jennifer Evans, Mary Evans, Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Farmers, Malcolm Galfe, Audrey Godwin, Colleen Graffy, the Grafton on Sunset, James Graham, the Gay Hussar, the Gees, Grumbles, Richard Hill, Charles Hillman, the late Amy Hostetter, Hotel Vancouver, Hyde Park Hilton, Sarah Horn, JCC, Jo Jacobius, Lincoln Kamell, the late Alan Kennington, Tom and Joan Keylock, Terry Lambert, Belinda Lawson, Barbara Levy, Cindy Link, Vince Lorimer, the late Jackie McBride, Les McBride, Ruth and Angie McCartney, the Macris, Ron and Russell Mael, Lee Mattson, Teri Mayo, Uday Mehta, Jim and Rana Meyersahm, Missoula Doubletree, Sheila Mohn, the Morgans, National Gallery Sackler Room, Chuck Ogmund, Valya Page, Robin Parish, Greg Phillips, Chris Pickrell, PNB, Roman Polanski, the Prins family, the late Navaal Ramdin, Keith Richards, Amanda Ripley, the late Malcolm Robinson, Debbie Saks, Sam, Delia Sandford, my father Sefton Sandford, Sue Sandford, Seattle International Film Festival, Peter Scaramanga, Rev. Kempton Segerhammar, the late Cat Sinclair, Skyway F.D., Fred and Cindy Smith
, Rev. and Mrs Harry Smith, Spruce Street School, the Stanleys, Streamline Taxis, Airie Stuart, Thaddeus Stuart, Jack Surendranath, Chai Tarler, the Travel Team, Ben and Mary Tyvand, William Underhill, University of Montana, Syra Vahidy, Di Villar, the late Roger Villar, Lisbeth Vogl, John and Mary Wainwright, Walgreens, Chris West, Jim Wheal, Richard Wigmore, the Willis Fleming family.
And a doffed hat, as always, to Karen and Nicholas Sandford.
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