Rashid Latif Interviewed by Richard Heller

Reference

MCC/AAL/3/233/6

Level of description

item

Extent

40 minutes 32 seconds

Part of

Peter Oborne and Richard Heller Wounded Tiger Interviews (MCC/AAL/3/233)

Scope and Content

Rashid Latif, cricketer, interviewed by Richard Heller. The recording consists of 3 tracks.

Track 1: [0:00-1:25] Latif talks indecipherably, [1:26-3:14] Latif talks about being a product of tape-ball, names famous tape-ball players, how it is bad for bowling technique and its importance within Pakistan, [3:15-5:24] Latif talks about how tape-ballers don't play first-class cricket, professional tape-ball players, and corporate organisations getting involved with teams and sponsorship, [5:25-9:14] Latif talks about his academy such as age groups, how many children are there and how it functions, [9:15-10:05] Latif about being from a lower-middle class background, his family and father working for an oil company, [10:16-15:56] Heller and Altaf go for a walkabout around the academy, Latif talks about always wanting to be a wicket-keeper, his lease for the land, where he gets his soil from and number of coaches and pitches, [15:57-18:22] Latif talks about increase in young spin bowlers throwing and PCB trying to crackdown on suspect actions and getting an £8000 roller from England with support from Lashings CC, [18:23-20:11] Latif talks about receiving support from local government and multinational companies, [20:12-23:05] Latif talks about planning a youth tournament and the hours boys train in the academy, [23:06-25:50] Latif talks about Pakistani internal players who have come through the academy and rivalries with other academies, [25:51-28:23] Latif talks about it being hard to find wicketkeepers, Wasim Bari, he and Heller compare hands and a gentleman speaks in Punjabi, [28:24-31:10] Latif talks about cricket equipment being expensive, children arriving with little and receiving equipment donations, [31:11-32:53] talking in Punjabi, [32:54-40:58] Heller talks to Wasituallah, a coach at the academy, about his life, wicketkeeping, playing in a match together and Heller's own book.

Track 2: [0:00-9:27] Feint voices, talking about tape ball cricket in Pakistan, [9:28-10:13] Heller talks about his background, [10:14-23:33] Heller, Latif and Qamar Ahmed talk about the Danish Kaneria match fixing case, [23:34-24:22] Latif talks about not joining PCB Board due to television work and commitment to his academy, [24:23-25:35] Latif and Ahmed talk about the time Geoffrey Boycott gave Latif 10 pounds for scoring 50 on his Test debut, [25:36-26:22] Latif talks about playing for Marchington Cricket Club and Lashings World XI, [26:23—27:31] Heller takes a photo of Latif and talks about visiting Pakistan.

Track 3: [0:00-2:54] Latif talks about keeping wicket to a variety of Pakistan bowlers, [2:55-3:50] Latif one day cricket heavily favouring batsmen, [3:51-5:22] Latif talks about advising the ICC on match fixing, [5:23-9:12] Latif and Heller talk about Viv Richards.

Associations

Rashid Latif
Richard Heller
Qamar Ahmed
Danish Parabha Shanker Kaneria
Mushtaq Ahmed
Saqlain Mushtaq
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Mohammad Sami
Marchington Cricket Club
Lashings Cricket Club
Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards

Subject

tape ball, coaching, cricket in Pakistan, Wicket-keeping, youth development, match fixing

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English, 6574, , , , , , , , ,

Size

40 minutes 32 seconds

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