SHARJAH: Veteran Pakistani cricket publisher Qamar Ahmed became usually a third male in story to cover 400 Test matches on Thursday, during a third compare between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Sharjah.
The 76-year-old, fondly famous as Q to friends and cricketers around a world, follows British publisher John Woodcock of The Times and former Australian captain-turned-writer and commentator Richie Benaud to a milestone.
In an exclusive interview with Dawn, the globetrotting Qamar Completes 400 Tests looked back at his colourful career which took him to all Test playing nations, barring Bangladesh, during which he saw a lot of milestones achieved and history being made.
Ahmed lonesome cricket’s 1,000th Test, between Pakistan and New Zealand during Hyderabad, Pakistan, in 1984 and a 2,000th, between England and India during Lord’s in 2011.
He has also clocked adult 732 one-day internationals and 8 World Cup tournaments.
“It’s a good honour to finish 400 Test matches as a publisher and we am unapproachable during a distinction,” pronounced Ahmed, a former left-arm spinner who has a eminence of dismissing all 5 of Pakistan’s mythological Mohammad brothers in initial category cricket in 1950s and 60s.
Ahmed was a earnest actor as a immature male and roughly done a Pakistan side for a country’s initial ever debate of a West Indies in 1958, though missed out and motionless to do his ambitions off a margin instead.
“On not removing to play for Pakistan, we went to England and complicated broadcasting though during that time it was tough to get a job, so we had to do peculiar jobs, though luckily we got a mangle in 1974 for British Broadcasting Corporation’s Urdu service,” he told AFP.
The 76-year-old, fondly famous as Q to friends and cricketers around a world, follows British publisher John Woodcock of The Times and former Australian captain-turned-writer and commentator Richie Benaud to a milestone.
Ahmed lonesome cricket’s 1,000th Test, between Pakistan and New Zealand during Hyderabad, Pakistan, in 1984 and a 2,000th, between England and India during Lord’s in 2011.
He has also clocked adult 732 one-day internationals and 8 World Cup tournaments.
“It’s a good honour to finish 400 Test matches as a publisher and we am unapproachable during a distinction,” pronounced Ahmed, a former left-arm spinner who has a eminence of dismissing all 5 of Pakistan’s mythological Mohammad brothers in initial category cricket in 1950s and 60s.
Ahmed was a earnest actor as a immature male and roughly done a Pakistan side for a country’s initial ever debate of a West Indies in 1958, though missed out and motionless to do his ambitions off a margin instead.
“On not removing to play for Pakistan, we went to England and complicated broadcasting though during that time it was tough to get a job, so we had to do peculiar jobs, though luckily we got a mangle in 1974 for British Broadcasting Corporation’s Urdu service,” he told AFP.
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