Strange story from when India played Australia at Melbourne in 1986 - a "murdered" man was discovered in the crowd and the murderers acquitted.
Peter Burton of Sydney disappeared in May 1983. His wife Margaret Burke was in a relationship with a man named Ronald Burke.
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Ms Burton and Burke were sentenced to life imprisonment in Nov 1984 on circumstantial evidence.
Then in January 1986, a man with sunglasses turned up at a World Series Cup match between Australia and India at the MCG who looked remarkably like Peter Burton.
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Oct 2, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
There was an article last week in Dawn about a former Pakistani player named Farooq Hamid who played one Test in 1964-65. He makes a few interesting claims. Seeing his name for the first time, so searched his name.
One of his claims is that he bowled at 110+ mph.
We don't have to take it too seriously but @smh in 1964 carried this photo of Peter Philpott being bowled by Farooq in the tour match in SCG
30 years ago this week, the first NorthStar quiz was held in the Narada Gana Sabha in Chennai. Either on September 30 or October 1. Not sure about the date, but that was my first trip to Chennai. 1/n
The elder brother of one of our guys had just moved to Madras for work. We got an authorization letter on the letterhead of a local club and caught a train. 2/n
