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Reflections 2 Syed Khalid Mahmood Date of Birth: 18 November 1963 (Scorpio) Education: Cadet College Petaro, Delhi College Karachi Bachelor of Engineering (Civil): NED University, Karachi 1981-1986 Contributed to The Cricketer Pakistan, Cricket World Quarterly and World of Cricket since 1980. Joined the Frontier Post as a sports reporter at the Karachi Bureau in September 1987. After a brief stint with the Pakistan Hockey as editor in 1990 he joined The News, owned by the Jang Group of Newspapers in Karachi, before its launch in February 1991. Focus on World Cup 1975-87 was his first book published on the eve of the 1987 Cricket World Cup. Then he authored The Caribbean Challenge, Pakistanís Triumph in World Cup 1992, Pakistan: The Land of World Champions, Pakistanís Sports Greats, So Near Yet So Far, Spotlight on World Cup 2003, Top of the Charts, Mission Caribbean and Cricket Fever. REFLECTIONS-2 A collectionof Articles on Sports Syed Khalid Mahmood Foreword by Grand Master Muhammad Ashraf Tai Published by Jumbo Publishing Dedicated to my daughters Javeria & Beenish Copyright © Syed Khalid Mahmood ISBN: 978-969-8893-36-1 1st Edition: 2011 Price in Pakistan: Rs. 800 Cover Design: Irfan Mubashir Inside Layout: Adeel Ahmed Published by Jumbo Publishing Suite # 15, Ground Floor, Habib Chamber, ST-12, Block 14, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, University Road, Karachi-75300, Pakistan Phones: +9221 34890388, 34890389 Fax: +9221 34890387 Web: www.jumbopublishing.com Email: [email protected] All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the permission of the publishers and the copyright holder. 4 REFLECTIONS-2 Foreword Syed Khalid Mahmood has had the knack of taking up steep challenges and delivering. He is the man of ideas and more importantly he has the ability to execute his plans. Blogging was not something which came to naturally to the writers or media professionals in our part of the world. It went to his credit to have developed a blog dedicated to sports in 2008 and he has kept pace with the times by making it interesting as well as user friendly. I reckon that he is among the pioneers as far as setting up a blog on sports is concerned. Indeed he possessed the skills and the capacity to meet the challenge and he has done it with a bang. My own martial art students, spread in different corners of the world, continue reminding me that they are able to track my abilities by reading the contents published on SkmSports.com which is doing a terrific job in promoting sports activities. I am told that an article on me captained ‘Ashraf Tai: Pakistan’s Martial Art Icon’ which was published on the blog in November 2008 generated record number of hits and a high number of comments were posted. The novel idea to publish the top articles of the blog in book form was well received and the publication of Reflections-2 clearly suggests that this practice will continue in feature as well. Grand Master Muhammad Ashraf Tai Founder, Tai’s Karate Centre Karachi. REFLECTIONS-2 5 Contents Naeem-ul-Haq urges ICC to invest more for grassroots development ...........................8 Spirit moves mountains.................................................................................................10 Prof Ejaz Farooqui crowned as Super Chairman .........................................................12 Jalaluddin being victimized by PCB once more............................................................14 Tahir Ahmed lauds role of sports journalists .................................................................16 Donkey cart race thrills .................................................................................................18 City of Karachi honours Jan-e-Alam Fazli.....................................................................20 Gul Hameed Bhatti’s death creates huge vacuum in sports journalism .......................22 Nation has a new hero in Naseem Hameed .................................................................24 Karachi Press Club honours Sohail Abbas, Mahmood Lodhi .......................................26 Another pioneering effort from Bashir Khan..................................................................28 Legends unite for mutual objective of damage control .................................................30 More than satisfying debut at Karachi Press Club........................................................32 Yousuf calls it a day in KPC’s Meet the Press show.....................................................34 Shoaib Malik weds Sania Mirza finally..........................................................................36 Pakistan, India survive battle of nerves ........................................................................38 Duckworth-Lewis system under fire ..............................................................................40 Mind sports to debut in Sindh Games...........................................................................42 England finally clinch a world title .................................................................................44 Cricket comes alive in USA...........................................................................................46 Ahmed Mustafa receives ICC award ............................................................................48 Prof Ejaz Farooqui desires to take Karachi cricket to next level...................................50 Sportsmasala.com launch Tissot FIFA World Cup Predictor Game..............................52 Ron Fergie’s eternal affair with a game called cricket ..................................................54 Regular editions of Sindh Games to improve standard, infrastructure: Dr Shah ..........56 Prof Anwar Chowdhry is no more ......................................................................................58 6 REFLECTIONS-2 Contents Shoaib Siddiqui inaugurates KPC Summer Sports Festival 2010 ................................60 ICC should consider scrapping dead rubber games.....................................................62 Neither Harbhajan nor anyone else can emulate magician Murali ...............................64 MSAP conduct KPC chess, scrabble events nicely ......................................................66 KPT hosts KPC badminton tourney ..............................................................................68 Shaukat Omari inaugurates KPC Table Tennis tourney................................................70 Dr. Shah praises KPC for organizing Sports Festival ...................................................72 KPC Sports Festival concludes with a fabulous ceremony...........................................74 Karachi Gymkhana Ramazan Cricket Festival completes 25 years .............................76 Rotary recognition brings smiles...................................................................................78 Not much element of surprise in yet another scandal...................................................80 Kapil Dev desires Imran Khan to run Pakistan cricket..................................................82 Omar Cricket Club go down fighting in KG Ramazan final ...........................................84 Aisam-ul-Haq comes of age (2) ....................................................................................86 Spectacular opening ceremony proves critics wrong (2) ..............................................88 ‘Tiger’ Pataudi also bids farewell to IPL (2)...................................................................90 Dhoni makes waves of all kinds in Goa (2)...................................................................92 Naqvi brothers excel in Sindh Swimming (2) ................................................................94 Tendulkar’s yet another super failure (2) ......................................................................96 Another miracle earns Pakistan Asiad hockey gold (2) ................................................98 Ejaz Farooqui on a mission to have lively pitches in Karachi (2)................................100 Rare assembly of World Cup legends (2) ...................................................................102 Tendulkar’s 50th century comes three Tests too late (2) ............................................104 John Wright off to winning start as New Zealand coach (2)........................106 REFLECTIONS-2 7 Naeem-ul-Haq urges ICC to invest more for grassroots development January 5, 2010 While appreciating the efforts of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in globalization of the sport, Naeem-ul-Haq, a former cricketer from Pakistan having relocated in the United States of America (USA), firmly believes that better results could be accomplished if more funds were allocated to the grassroots development. “The ICC would be better off investing in the infrastructure development in countries where cricket remained a minority sport. I believe that in order to fast track their efforts they should enhance their grants to the member countries,” Naeem, one of the coaches of the United States of America Cricket Association (USACA), observed in an interview during his recent visit to Pakistan. “I must say the ICC has been doing a fabulous job by funding the national cricket bodies of their member countries but I have a feeling that the results would start coming faster if they could directly take care of the various coaching programmes aimed at engaging
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