December 13, 2020
“The more I think about it the more convinced I am that the greatest athlete for his age the world has ever seen may well be Hashim Khan.”
Squash is a strange game. Enclosed within four walls on a rectangular court measuring 32 feet by 21 feet, two players take alternate turns at hitting a rubber ball onto the front wall, making sure that ball does not bounce twice and that it stays above the 19 inch tin that runs across the bottom of this wall. Originating in Britain, the soldiers of their imperial army took squash and other British sports with them to the colonies they ruled over. British sports and the British Empire were inseparable soulmates and this was how squash came to the Indo-Pak subcontinent.