Mushtaq Mohammed played 57 Test matches for Pakistan and was one of the world's premier players throughout the sixties and seventies,as a flamboyant middle-order batsman and underrated leg-spinner. When he became Pakistan captain in 1975-76,he united what had been a group of outstanding individuals into a world-class team,which of players such as Zaheer Abbas,Asif Iqbal,Imran Khan and Javed Miandad. The legacy of the creativity and will to win he injected into the side has remained ever since.
His Autobiography traces his roots during Partition when he shifted from India to Pakistan,to his school days when he made history by becoming the youngest-ever Test cricketer,and onwards through his career that spanned 20 years with Pakistan and 14 seasons at county team Northhamptonshire in England,his adopte country where he raised his family.
Mushtaq,who also coached his country at 1999 World Cup,gives a frank and detailed account of what it was like to grow up in cricket's most talented family as four of the five Mohammed brothers represented Pakistan in Tests and all at first-class level. Raised in a shared Hindu Temple in Karachi after Partition,after his father had passed away and with his mother struggling to provide for her children,his story is one of overcoming adversity- in adolescence and adulthood.