BARI’S SUCCESS BUILT ON GAME’S SIMPLE PLEASURES

Master of his art: Wasim Bari was one of the great gloveman for Pakistan
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Last month the former Pakistan wicketkeeper Wasim Bari celebrated his 70th birthday. The younger generation, the millennials among us, may know him more for what he has said rather than what he has done; his occasional vocal outbursts are something of a hallmark of his long-standing bureaucratic presence within Pakistan cricket.
It wasn’t always so. Ironically as a player, Bari, the most capped Pakistani Test cricketer at the time...

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