Photo exhibition: Karachiites re-live Pakistan’s 1992 triumph

KARACHI: With the World Cup 2019 around the corner, the people going to Dolmen Mall Clifton got an opportunity to re-live the moments of 1992 Cricket World Cup on Tuesday.Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan Margaret Adamson held a world cup photo exhibition ‘Relive the Passion’ of the 1992 World Cup in Australia through the eyes of cricket photographer Iqbal Munir.“Twenty Seven years have gone by since then, but the moments captured and displayed here will take all cricket lovers back in time to Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne,” she said and added that every single photo tells a story.She said that it was a show of brilliance, which made every Pakistani proud. Back then, she recalled, Pakistani team was no ordinary team. “It had the best players the world cricket has seen. It was a team of legends and talent, Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Ramiz Raja, Saleem Malik, Wasim Akram, Aqib Javed, Moin Khan, Mustaq Ahmed and of course, Inzamam ul Haq,” she said.Margaret, along with cricketer Wasim Akram and his wife Shaniera Thompson, opened the exhibition. “1992 was a tournament of firsts. The first World Cup played in Australia. The first appearance of coloured kit, white balls and night cricket. And, most importantly, the first World Cup collected by Pakistan,” Ms Adamson said.The photos by Munir, she pointed out, captured the ecstasy of the Pakistani players after that victory over the English. She noted that although Australia and Pakistan were fierce competitors on the field, cricket was a unifying passion for the two countries.“Every summer more than a million Australians play the game, and you see the same enthusiasm here in Pakistan. On every street, in every open space, youngsters are out hitting the ball, grabbing a wicket, being part of the team,” she said and added that Pakistan has produced some of the game’s true champions: Imran Khan, the best of skippers; Shahid Afridi, who hit more sixes than anyone else in one-day internationals; Sarfraz Nawaz, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, who pioneered reverse swing.Wasim said the idea of this exhibition was to motivate the youth and cricket lover for the World Cup. “Pakistan cricket has moments which everyone remembers; be it someone who is five years old or someone who is 75,” he said and lauded Munir for his services to the cricket through photography.Wasim said he remembered a few moments that the pictures showed. “I’ll have a look and I will re-live every moment,” he said and asked the younger generation which did not witness that victory to ask their elders about the feelings back then.

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