Salim Parvez - Statistician, Author, Historian & Archivist
Born in Taplow, Berkshire in 1965, both of Salim’s education and club cricket was in Pakistan, where he spent 19 years before returning to UK in 1986.
As a freelance cricket writer, Salim kicked off with England-West Indies 1995 pocket-size book and his first taste of publication on Pakistan cricket, with Babes of Cricket to World Champion in 1996, written in collaboration with Shuja-ud-din, Test all-rounder. The duo upgraded their work with The Chequered History of Pakistan Cricket, launched at Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore in 2003. Salim’s major contribution perhaps thus far is the profile-based, K.H.Baloch’s Encyclopaedia of Pakistan Cricket, launched in Karachi in 2005. Since then, the same team have broken new grounds with K.H.Baloch’s Bibliography of Pakistan Cricket, coinciding with Pakistan team’s tour of England in 2010. He was also co-writer of A Straight Bat – a biography of Pakistan Test opener, Alim-ud-din in 2015. The 2nd edition of Encyclopaedia of Pakistan Cricket is taking its shape with an aim to be launched in the near future.
Latest Articles
South Africa vs Pakistan 2nd T20I: South Africa win by 6 wickets
South Africa put up a commanding show to level the T20I series, with a six wicket win, with 36 balls to spare, against Pakistan at Wanderers, Johannesburg.
South Africa vs Pakistan 1st T20I: Pakistan pip South Africa
Led by Mohammad Rizwan’s brilliant unbeaten 74 off 50 balls, Pakistan chased down their highest T20I total to go one-up in the four match series against South Africa...
South Africa vs Pakistan, 3rd ODI: Pakistan beat South Africa and take ODI Series 2-1
Pakistan beat South Africa by 28 runs, in a thrilling encounter in the 3rd ODI of the series, at Supersport Park, Centurion today
Javed Ilyas - Pride intact
The ancient city of Multan, as the hub of cricket in southern Punjab, ought to have produced many more international stars than they have, since emerging as Division, in the new administrative set-up in 1958.
Minto, Mian and Mujahid
A personal recollection of Minto Park, now named Greater Allama Iqbal Park, takes one to the late 1960s with wrestlers grappling opponents, who after an oil massage, would enter the Akhara - fray made up of soft soil.
South Africa vs Pakistan: South Africa win by by 17 runs and Fakhar fireworks light up the Pink Day 2nd ODI
On a perfect ODI surface at Wanderers, Johannesburg, South Africa pipped Pakistan to level the series at 1-1, with a final game to play. The tourists, with the exception of left-handed opener, Fakhar Zaman..
South Africa vs Pakistan: Pakistan just pipped South Africa in 1st ODI
Pakistan beat South Africa by 3 wickets, at Supersport Park, Centurion today, on the last ball of the match.
A Pakistan coaching dilemma
Pakistan cricket team management at present, consists of six coaches – Misbah-ul-Haq (head), Shahid Aslam (assistant),Younis Khan (batting), Waqar Younis (bowling), Mushtaq Ahmed (spin bowling), Abdul Majeed (fielding) – that usually accompany the national team, both at home and overseas.
Haroon Rasheed - Obituary
Haroon Rasheed, a wrist spinner who shot to prominence in his teens, passed away aged 58, in Lahore on 8 February, after years of stress related illness, whilst coming to terms with financial strains.
