CRICKET
the story of younis khan
from the pen of
Rashid Latif
W
hen Younis reached his century in the first Test
at Dubai against Australia last year to rescue
Pakistan after it had been tottering at 7-2, many
people expressed surprise as to how he had managed to
bounce back in such a manner after being dropped from
the national ODI squad barely a few weeks ago which
was followed by a rare outburst from him at the National
Stadium.But I was not surprised in the least at the fact
that he had decided to play the Test series after all and
that he got to his century in such difficult circumstances.I
have known the affable player since the time he came
to our club when he was barely 16-years-old and I saw
how he loved to be a part of the game of cricket any
way he could, whether on the field or off it. He had a
lot of passion for cricket with brimming patriotism. All he
ever wanted to do was to play for Pakistan.It was the
early 1990s and an ethnic war was raging in Karachi.
This was as much against the drug mafia as against the
communities. Wh ]