CRICKET MILESTONES

/I have had the passion of collecting the cricket records for well over half a century now. I was always fascinated by the statistical aspects of the game and it gave me enormous pleasure to maintain records of Tests and first-class matches on a regular basis since childhood. One-day Internationals came many years later while Twenty20 Internationals have begun only recently. Cricket has certainly changed a great deal over the years and there are far too many matches taking place in every part of the world these days that what used to be in the decades gone by. At the same time there are greater resources available to the contemporary statisticians unlike the past. Shahzad Ali Khan is one of those hard-working cricket statisticians who look for the minutest of details instead of just filling in the numbers. I tell you by experience that it’s very arduous task indeed to keep a track of the so many matches going on simultaneously and update the records accordingly. His second book Cric