How Auqib Nabi overcame father’s fears to become Ranji Trophy champion | Cricket News
Ghulam Nabi’s latent love for ‘Tendulkar Sir’ and ‘Captain Cool – Ganguly’ in the late 90s and early aughties might just have tilted the scales in favour of allowing his son Auqib – ‘Aqu’ – to continue in cricket. “Initially, I stopped him strictly,” he says. It helped that Ghulam’s mother and wife, Auqib’s grandmother and mother – were cricket fanatics. “My wife knows about playing styles of cricketers, whose names I’ve never even heard of!” says Ghulam, adding, “I used to be a good bowler too, but I stopped playing cricket after my marriage. Responsibilities take over.” A father of three, Ghulam works as a teacher in a government school. Even when Auqib was cleaning up Karun Nair, KL Rahul and Devdutt Padikkal on Day 3, his father was in a class at his secondary school in Shiri, 7 km down slope from Baramulla, and would watch video clips of his scalps later. “At middle school in 8th, Auqib was a zone topper at studies. I genuinely wanted all my children to go in …
