Brim Full of Passion: Wasim Khan - From the ghetto to Pro Cricket and Beyond By

NEW Books from family run Booksellers. Our hand selected titles are in stock and ready for posting in protective packaging.\nBrimful of Passion is the story of Wasim Khan, the first Pakistani born in this country to make it as a county cricketer. Born in 1971 in the terraced streets of inner-city Birmingham, Wasim grew up in a multiracial neighbourhood, speaking Punjabi as well as English. Cricket was his passion. He couldn't afford a bat, so he pulled a plank out of the garden fence, nicked his Mum's best kitchen knife - and carved his own. In 1983, he left the street cricket of Somerville Road to train with Warwickshire under-13s. Eleven years later the left-handed opener was scoring runs for fun for the all conquering and history making Warwickshire team that took the county scene by storm. Three years after that he'd been shunted off to Sussex, fallen out with his captain, languished in the reserves for two years, and found himself playing for a Derbyshire side that welcomed.