IMRAN’S FAREWELL PYJAMA PARTY SPARKED A NEW ERA

Paul Edwards looks back at the 1992 World Cup where a new dawn in one-day cricket was ultimately crowned by the farewell of a legend

WORLD CUP ARCHIVES
Paul Edwards

The 39-year-old captain holds a Waterford crystal trophy and gazes into the middle distance. No one knows it but he has just played his last game of cricket.
Never ever one of the boys, he has roused his side to the greatest triumph in their history by telling them to “fight like cornered tigers” and has even worn a T-shirt to illustrate his point.
It is hardly the most original simile but it has worked. Having...

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