Author: | Younis Ahmed | ISBN: | 1230001044706 |
Publisher: | Chequered Flag Publishing | Publication: | May 1, 2016 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | Younis Ahmed |
ISBN: | 1230001044706 |
Publisher: | Chequered Flag Publishing |
Publication: | May 1, 2016 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
Younis Ahmed was a talented, attacking middle-order batsman who left his native Pakistan to forge a successful career in cricket around the globe. But he is not remembered for his vibrant batting. Instead it is for moments of controversy: an international ban for touring apartheid-era South Africa, taking Surrey to a tribunal, leaving Worcestershire under a cloud. Now Younis tells his side of the story.
Younis also describes winning the County Championship and Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, replacing Garry Sobers at South Australia at the invitation of Don Bradman, pioneering professionalism and sponsorship in cricket, taking the sport to the Middle East and playing alongside legends including Javed Miandad and Imran Khan.
This is the colourful and chequered story of how one cricketer’s journey from Lahore to London took him to the top of the game, but also to the depths of rejection and despair.
Younis Ahmed was a talented, attacking middle-order batsman who left his native Pakistan to forge a successful career in cricket around the globe. But he is not remembered for his vibrant batting. Instead it is for moments of controversy: an international ban for touring apartheid-era South Africa, taking Surrey to a tribunal, leaving Worcestershire under a cloud. Now Younis tells his side of the story.
Younis also describes winning the County Championship and Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, replacing Garry Sobers at South Australia at the invitation of Don Bradman, pioneering professionalism and sponsorship in cricket, taking the sport to the Middle East and playing alongside legends including Javed Miandad and Imran Khan.
This is the colourful and chequered story of how one cricketer’s journey from Lahore to London took him to the top of the game, but also to the depths of rejection and despair.