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Rohit Mahajan
In 2007, travelling on a train in England, I was offered a cup of coffee by a scary man. He seemed angry, dangerously stupid and drunk. He walked down the aisle carrying two paper cups of coffee, took the seat opposite me, placed one cup on the table in front of me and, pointing at it, barked an order in what seemed to be an East European language but the intent was clear: “Drink!”
He wanted me to drink coffee, I didn’t want to. He seemed the sort to negotiate with his fists rightly, too, for he was a head taller and a ton heavier. Luckily, he lapsed into a reverie, induced possibly by liquor or drugs.
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Rohit Mahajan
When Imran Khan became the prime minister of Pakistan three years back, former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi told this writer: “Hope he will work for peace. He was a great cricketer.”
Bedi sahab then related a memory from a match they played in Pakistan in 1978: Imran had bowled with tigerish hostility through the day; when evening fell, the great Khan was seen jogging around the field of play, not resting with his feet up. “He’s a determined man and fair-minded sportsman,” said Bedi.
That’s true, for almost every cricketer he played with acknowledges these qualities of Imran. But alas, since he became the prime minister, what Salman Rushdie said, in 2012, about the great cricketer rings truer with each passing day “When Imran was a playboy in London, he was called Im the dim.”