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Chishty Mujahid brings with him a wealth of administrative and cricketing knowledge and experience. An authoritative cricket commentator, he read law at Cambridge. His love for the game began when he played at club level as a right-hand batsman and right-arm leg spin bowler. A frequent visitor to Tests in England during his student days in the late s, he became a commentator renowned for being both articulate and knowledgeable.

He has worked in high profile job in various national and International companies. Chishty Mujahid is a well known figure in Pakistani cricket journalism and broadcasting. PP: Any funny incidents, any slip of the tongue, during your time that comes to your mind during your commentary spells? CM : Omar Qureshi? Oh yes, radio and TV, He was our mentor.

He was a very fine person. Basically his first love was journalism and he was a five-star journalist and then of course a five-star commentator. He was extremely kind to me and on several occasions recommended me as a commentator. Now if Omar Qureshi says of someone that he knows his cricket, then he must know his cricket. May God bless his soul, lovely man.

PP: Moving on to some of the matches that you had the chance to commentate on, you must have seen some of the most fantastic players. Which kind of match, or which particular match, sticks in your mind? CM: The two matches that really stick in my mind are the Test matches in — one in Lahore against India and the one in Karachi. The Karachi one, as you probably will recall, or look up in the record; you see that game almost turned into a one-day game in the end.

Some brilliant captaincy by Mushtaq [Mohammad] and some brilliant running by Asif [Iqbal] and Javed Miandad and then in the end the mistake as they say made by Bishan Bedi by bringing in himself on. Someone like Imran [Khan] clobbered him for a couple of sixes for 19 in an over or something like that. Actually that was the peak. People think that Javed Miandad six should be featuring in that.

Yes I was there on the radio when Javed Miandad hit that sixer. That was very exciting. There was another six which was by Asif Mujtaba against Australia; he hit one to win the match. Sometimes you can go on and on, 45 years is a long time! PP: You just mentioned the Sarfraz bowling spell. Any other bowling spell that you remember?

CM: I think there are a number bowling spells that I remember. I was a small child and father was posted in New Delhi and I watched that match which Pakistan lost by an innings, much to my depression. There we saw the matches against India at the University Ground which was not very far from the house, it was across the house. By the way it was the only Test match that has been played in Lucknow.

After that they shifted the venue to Kanpur which is 40 miles away from Lucknow. Fazal Mehmood rocked them out of reckoning, India was a depleted side, they were having some internal problems I think if I recall, and I read that book by Mr. Kardar, the team which played in Delhi and then one which played in Lucknow had about five or six changes in the Indian side, but then in Mumbai they came back strong.

Fazal Mehmood, of course, was a legend. I have talked to Hanif quite a bit about it. You know the story of the man who was watching it from the tree? Watching Hanif, who batted all day, this man at the end of the day fell down and he was taken to the hospital. So he was patched up, kept there for a day and he came back and climbed up the tree again and saw Hanif still batting three days later.

He fell off again — he was so in shock that he fell off! Hanif batted minutes, although some say it wasbut what is a few minutes between friends?! He was in a shock, in stupor, when he came back. They had some very fine players — the Flower brothers, Alistair Campbell and Henry Olonga just to name a few. PP: Is it fair to state the standard of commentary has gone down considerably from your days?

I think it has gone down all over the world, not only in Pakistan. There is no broadcast training. There is nothing of that sort. We were trained by people who were broadcasters. Now, of course, you just put anyone in. You see, what I feel is that on television, in particular, we are speaking too much, including myself, as commentators. But anyway, who cares these days?

The only thing people — the audience and spectators — want these days is to know the score. In radio they are not interested in the intricacies of the game. On 14th August the family flew direct from Allahabad to Karachi the capital of the newly created state of Pakistan in a chartered Scottish Airline Dakota along with family friends. The aircraft had been chartered by a close friend.

Chishty being three and a bit has some hazy recollections of the journey. He says the plane was very cold and noisy!! At school and colleges he played cricket and tennis. But he states very frankly that he realized early that he was not good enough to excel in either game to reach the top. As such he opted to try his hand at broadcasting commentary on the game he was passionate about — cricket.

The household names of Omar Kureishi and Jamsheed Marker, kicking off with the first home series against India inhad a mesmerizing effect on the cricket public, as the pioneers of radio commentary. In the days when commentary of cricket matches, was only associated with the English chishty mujahid biography sample. The two rival captains being the legendary Hanif Mohammad and Mike Brearley, who had also led Cambridge University in In he commentated on the Test match in Karachi when three brothers Hanif, Mushtaq and Sadiq represented Pakistan.

Those were crucial and those were the difference in the end and you have to give them credit. Then, of course, Pakistan batted badly. Khurram Manzoor got a half-century in each innings of the 2nd Test. But Mohammad Hafeez failed again with the bat. These are your four main architects of the victory. There is no such thing as old or young in Test cricket, or any cricket.

These two players, Misbah and Younis, are two of the fittest cricketers in the country, in the lineup, and probably in the entire international circuit. The problem was the batting. That is where it went wrong. The bowling is alright and the pace bowlers did well. In the case of Ajmal in the second Test, it would appear that probably the Zimbabweans had done a lot of homework on him.

Remember, Grant Flower is their batting coach and they must have got some strategy against Ajmal. Playing forward, playing off the pitch, trying to play from the palm in the air and in the end it worked. The young pace battery of the Zimbabweans which comprises Tendai ChataraBrian Vitori and Panyangara stuck to the basics — line and length, outside the off-stump, fourth, fifth and sixth stump — and in the end the batsmen did play and make a mistake.

The Zimbabweans of course had a point to prove and they did. You have a board which is under some sort of litigation at the moment. PP: Exactly what problems are you alluding to? To the layman, it appears that Pakistan just did not have the skills to play a minnow?! The man who was nominated for chief selector became the manager of the Pakistan side and he proved to be a very good one.

He was a relaxed manager, the Pakistan camp was relaxed but at the same time there was no indiscipline. Not once did the assistant manager, Shahid Aslam, say who is late or who is not late. Have you groomed your future captain?

Chishty mujahid biography sample

Hafeez is a very brilliant T20 captain and player. Is he a Test player? Is he a Test captain yet? Shahid Afridi ran away from Test matches when he gave up the captaincy. You see, either take the tough decision like the South Africans did about a decade or dozen years ago. Do we have anybody like Smith?