Pakistan has produced a great number of sportsmen who have done the country proud on countless occasions. But only a handful of them have managed to summarise their illustrious careers in print — Hanif Mohammad, Zaheer Abbas, Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Fazal Mahmood, Islahuddin, Wasim Akram and Mushtaq Mohammad are those who have written their autobiographies. Let’s have a look at some other sportsmen who have
won laurels for Pakistan and need to talk about their playing days. The following is a list of sportsmen with probable titles of their books and the reasons they need to put pen to paper, so to speak ...
SAMIULLAH Title: The Flying Horse
Accomplishments: Won medals for Pakistan at major events, including the World Cup and the Champions Trophy.
Very few Pakistani sportsmen have penned their autobiographies. The kind of eventful lives that many of them have led need to be compiled into books in order for their fans, especially the younger generation, to learn from them. Eos comes up with a probable list of nine players whose real life stories need to be told
What readers want to know: Hockey fans would love to know how Samiullah went on to become the ‘Flying Horse’, how he felt after winning his first tournament as a player and final one as captain, and what made him quit at the peak of his career. The former captain was at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 as an observer when Pakistan
won the gold medal, the only one that eluded him in his career. He can also describe some of his memorable performances, including matches against archrivals India.