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Duncan Sharpe
Duncan Albert Sharpe (born 3 August 1937) is a Pakistani former cricketer who played in three Test cricket, Test matches in 1959–60. Sharpe is of Anglo-Indian heritage, and was the third Christianity in Pakistan, Christian to play Test cricket for Pakistan national cricket team, Pakistan. He has lived in Australia since 1961. Career in Pakistan Sharpe's family had lived in British India since the middle of the 19th century as their ancestors migrated from England. They were relatives of the English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, William Thackeray. Sharpe was born in Rawalpindi but grew up in Lahore, where his mother was a nurse. He was one of three brothers, who were all sent to board at St. Anthony High School, Lahore, after their parents separated.Richard Heller and Peter Oborne, ''White on Green: Celebrating the Drama of Pakistan Cricket'', Simon & Schuster, London, 2016, pp. 102–11. Duncan Sharpe took a job as a clerk with Pakistan Railways when he was 17. He was d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi is the List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, third-largest city in the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is a commercial and industrial hub, being the list of cities in Pakistan by population, fourth-most populous city in Pakistan. Located near the Soan River in north-western Punjab, it is the world's third largest Punjabi language, Punjabi-speaking city (after Lahore and Faisalabad). Rawalpindi is situated adjacent to Pakistan's capital Islamabad; and the two are jointly known as "twin cities", constituting a single Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan area, contiguous metropolitan area. Prior to Islamabad's establishment, Rawalpindi served as the country's federal capital from 1959 to 1967. Located on the Pothohar Plateau of northern Punjab, Rawalpindi remained a small town of little importance up until the 18th century. The region is known for its ancient heritage, for instance the neighbouring city of T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil And Military Gazette
''The Civil and Military Gazette'' was a daily English-language newspaper founded in 1872 in British India. It was published from Lahore, Simla and Karachi, some times simultaneously, until its closure in 1963.Asiamap: Archives , Retrieved September 10, 2010. The archives are owned by Lahore-based businessman Humayun Naseer Shaikh and have been digitized by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's Citizens Archive of Pakistan. History The ''Civil and Military Gazette'' was founded in and in 1872. It was a merger of ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheffield Shield
The Sheffield Shield is the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. The tournament is contested between teams representing the six states of Australia. The Sheffield Shield is named after Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield, Lord Sheffield. Prior to the Shield being established, a number of List of Australian intercolonial cricket matches, intercolonial matches were played. The Shield, donated by Lord Sheffield, was first contested during the 1892–93 Sheffield Shield season, 1892–93 season, between New South Wales cricket team, New South Wales, South Australia cricket team, South Australia and Victoria cricket team, Victoria. Queensland cricket team, Queensland was admitted for the 1926–27 season, Western Australia cricket team, Western Australia for the 1947–48 season, and Tasmania cricket team, Tasmania for the 1977–78 season. The competition is contested in a double-round-robin tournament, round-robin format, with each team playing every other team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Jarman
Barrington Noel Jarman (17 February 193617 July 2020) was an Australian Test cricketer and International Cricket Council (ICC) match referee. Jarman played in 19 Test matches for the Australian cricket team between 1959 and 1969, including one match as captain. Early life Jarman was born in Hindmarsh, South Australia, and later attended the Thebarton Technical High School. He played club cricket for Woodville Cricket Club in South Australian district cricket. After playing in the club's schoolboy team as an 11-year-old in 1948, Jarman began playing senior cricket during the 1949/50 season and made his A-Grade debut in 1952 at the age of 15. While playing Australian rules football for West Torrens Football Club Colts in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) junior competition, Jarman broke his leg which led him to focus on cricket. Career On his first-class cricket debut for South Australia against New South Wales at the Adelaide Oval in December 1955, Jar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistani Cricket Team In India In 1960–61
The Pakistan national cricket team toured India in the winter of 1960–61. They played five Test matches against the India national cricket team, and also played against several local Indian squads. Background Writing for ''The Indian Express'' cricketer Abdul Hafeez Kardar who played for both India and Pakistan maintained that if Pakistan "does well in the first two test matches", they would go on to win the series. He felt that the visiting side had the "strongest batting power house ever to be sent out" by Pakistan and that Hanif Mohammad, "the most matured opener of the game", would the main "hurdle" for India. Squads The Indian squad for the series was announced on 30 November 1960. Rajasthan's all-rounder Rusi Surti was the only new inclusion in the squad. Vijay Manjrekar and Subhash Gupte made their comeback to the squad after a year. It was reported that the Pakistan squad would be announced only an hour before commencement of the First Test. To their squad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayub Trophy
The President's Trophy (formerly Patron's Trophy) is a cricket competition that is held in Pakistan. It was previously held between 1960–61 and 2018–19 but was refounded from the 2023–24 season. It consists of teams representing the government and semi-government departments, corporations, commercial organisations, business houses, banks, airlines, and educational institutions. Matches in the competition were afforded first-class status in most seasons until 2006–07, when the domestic first-class competition was reorganised and merged into the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). From then on, the Patron's Trophy was a Grade II competition until a major revamp of domestic cricket in 2019 brought an end to the competition. For the 2012–13 domestic season a new first-class competition, called the President's Trophy Grade I, was created for departments. It was announced as a renaming of the Patron's Trophy, and ran for just two seasons before the PCB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lahore Cricket Teams
Lahore cricket teams, representing the city of Lahore, have competed in Pakistan's first-class cricket tournaments from 1958–59 to 2018–19, and from 2023 to 2024. They have also competed in the national 50-over and Twenty-20 tournaments as the Lahore Lions. Teams From the inaugural season of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in 1953–54 until 1957–58, the state of Punjab was represented by the Punjab cricket team (as well as by Punjab A and Punjab B in 1957–58). In the 1958–59 season the Punjab cities Lahore, Rawalpindi, Bahawalpur and Multan fielded teams. Owing to Lahore's population and cricketing strength, beginning with the 1961–62 season the Lahore Regional Cricket Association has usually fielded more than one team in first-class tournaments. (Karachi Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Starlets
Indian Starlets were a team of young Indian cricketers who played 16 first-class matches between 1960 and 1967. Tour of Pakistan, 1959-60 Seventeen players took part in a tour of Pakistan in April and May 1960. They played seven first-class matches; all were drawn. The players, with their ages at the beginning of the tour, were: * Sudhakar Adhikari (20) * Lala Amarnath (48) (captain in the two matches he played) * Prem Bhatia (20) * Dinabandu (age unknown) * Farokh Engineer (22) * William Ghosh (31) * Habib Ahmed (21) (captain in four of the five matches he played) * Harcharan Singh (21) * M. L. Jaisimha (21) (captain in one of the five matches he played) * V. V. Kumar (24) * Gulshran Mehra (22) * Madan Mehra (25) * Vijay Mehra (22) * A. G. Milkha Singh (18) * B. B. Nimbalkar (40) * Chatta Ramesh (26) * Ponnuswami Sitaram (27) Milkha Singh was the leading batsman, with 469 runs at an average of 117.25 and three centuries. Ghosh, Kumar and Sitaram were the most successf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "Bible of cricket" (or variations thereof) has been applied to ''Wisden'' since the early 1900s. Between 1998 and 2005, an Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia, Australian edition of ''Wisden'' was published. An Indian version, edited by Suresh Menon, was produced annually from 2013 to 2018, but discontinued following the publication of a combined 2019 and 2020 issue. History During the Victorian era there was a growing public appetite for sporting trivia, especially of a statistical nature. ''Wisden'' was founded in 1864 by the English cricketer John Wisden (1826–84) as a competitor to Fred Lillywhite's ''The Guide to Cricketers''. Its annual publication has continued uninterrupted to the present day, making it the longest running sports annual in history. In 1869, the sixth edition became the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Cricket Team
The Australia men's national cricket team represents Australia in international cricket. Along with England, it is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, playing and winning the first ever Test match in 1877; the team also plays One-Day International and Twenty20 International cricket, participating in both the first ODI, against England in the 1970–71 season and the first T20I, against New Zealand in the 2004–05 season, winning both games. The team draws its players from teams playing in the Australian domestic competitions – the Sheffield Shield, the Australian domestic limited-overs cricket tournament and the Big Bash League. Australia are the current ICC Cricket World Cup champions. They are often regarded as the most successful national team in the history of cricket. The national team has played 875 Test matches, winning 419, losing 234, 219 drawn and with 2 tied , Australia is first in the ICC Test Rankings. Australia is the most successful team in Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Eaglets
Pakistan Eaglets were a team of young cricketers from Pakistan, founded by Justice A.R. Cornelius. They toured England and Wales every year from 1952 to 1959, Malaya and Ceylon in 1960–61, and England again in 1963. Most of their matches were non- first-class, but they played 11 first-class matches between 1960 and 1963. Many Pakistan Eaglets players went on to play Test cricket for Pakistan. Tours to England and Wales, 1952 to 1959 These tours usually lasted a few weeks in the warmer months of July and August and included matches against club sides, minor county sides, and county second elevens. More than half of the matches were in either Wales or the west of England. None of the matches were first-class. First first-class match Pakistan Eaglets played a three-day first-class match in Lahore in May 1960 against the touring Indian Starlets side, a team of young Indian cricketers. In the drawn match, Ijaz Butt was the Eaglets' top scorer with 161. Tour to Malaya, Singapore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
