On This Day: October 24, 1964 - Majid Khan made his Test debut - How good of an opener was he?

[Abdullah719]

In his debut Test, he batted at #8 and opened the bowling...

He had a poor start to his career and played only a few matches in the initial few years.

However, he returned strongly in 1972 and mostly batted in the top order after that, averaging a respectable 42.

He hit 2 hundreds apiece in Australia and New Zealand and one in West Indies.

How good was he overall as an opener?

 

[Junaids]

He was absolutely superb, but Pakistan barely played during his peak years.

He was wonderful at Glamorgan: batting in a white floppy hat he was an amazing hooker, puller and driver, especially against the pace of Andy Roberts or Mike Procter.

These were the days (1965-1980) when Oxford and Cambridge educated Pakistanis like Imran Khan and his cousin Majid, plus the relative westernisation in those days of British Pakistanis (compared with British Indians) led to a broad perception in Britain that Pakistanis were much less foreign than most other immigrants.

Whereas today that role has completely changed.

 

[Tusker]

He was absolutely superb, but Pakistan barely played during his peak years.

He was wonderful at Glamorgan: batting in a white floppy hat he was an amazing hooker, puller and driver, especially against the pace of Andy Roberts or Mike Procter.

These were the days (1965-1980) when Oxford and Cambridge educated Pakistanis like Imran Khan and his cousin Majid, plus the relative westernisation in those days of British Pakistanis (compared with British Indians) led to a broad perception in Britain that Pakistanis were much less foreign than most other immigrants.

Whereas today that role has completely changed.

Never understood your deep love affair for anything to do with Pakistan and the complete opposite for India. Just curious.

 

[Junaids]

Never understood your deep love affair for anything to do with Pakistan and the complete opposite for India. Just curious.

The answer fits totally in this thread!

Growing up in the 1970’s, the best known Indian cricketer in England was Bishan Bedi, who was exotic, but looked very alien.

Imran Khan and Majid Khan were dashing, handsome, seemingly westernised men (as was my own hero, India’s Farokh Engineer).

I loved Bedi, but I wanted to be Imran Khan or Majid Khan. Ask Mike Atherton or Nasser Hussain and they would say the same thing.

It was only after we reached our adolescence - and got past hero worship - that we started to recognise the full conservatism of Pakistani culture, or to realise that we admired India’s society and legal system and relative progressiveness more.

I’d rather visit India than Pakistan. I’d rather have the Indian legal system. But the little boy in me still remembers how glamorous Imran Khan and Majid Khan were.

 

[Tusker]

The answer fits totally in this thread!

Growing up in the 1970’s, the best known Indian cricketer in England was Bishan Bedi, who was exotic, but looked very alien.

Imran Khan and Majid Khan were dashing, handsome, seemingly westernised men (as was my own hero, India’s Farokh Engineer).

I loved Bedi, but I wanted to be Imran Khan or Majid Khan. Ask Mike Atherton or Nasser Hussain and they would say the same thing.

It was only after we reached our adolescence - and got past hero worship - that we started to recognise the full conservatism of Pakistani culture, or to realise that we admired India’s society and legal system and relative progressiveness more.

I’d rather visit India than Pakistan. I’d rather have the Indian legal system. But the little boy in me still remembers how glamorous Imran Khan and Majid Khan were.

But we are now in the year 2017 and you still champion the cause of Umar Akmal and come up with theories on how Pakistan can do well in AUS/SA/Etc and take pot shots at anything Indian despite it spectacularly backfiring (like "Do runs against SL Count" )

Infact you write more about Pak cricket than English cricket