Sitting in TV lounge discussing cricketing greats with my cousins and maternal uncles. Once my maternal uncle said that before Shahid Afridi there was a man who was as fearless as he is right now. He was the elder brother of Ramiz, Wasim Raja. This fascinated me a lot. I thought, once cricket that was known to be popular for test matches, where games were not really fast, there was a cricketer who was popular for being a stroke player. Now as a curious young boy I started searching about him. Raja belonged to an upper middle class family. His father was a civil servant. His facial appearance was very different as compared to the other Pakistani players of that time. An intense looking man with a heavy beard, educated at the government college Lahore. Another factor that came forward was that he was not an easy going man. Wasim Raja was an introvert and moody. In a fundraiser that was held for Shaukat Khanum memorial hospital , when Imran was asked that who...
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