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Our special guest this week is Mudar Patherya, a cricket writer for Sportsworld magazine through the 1980s - before he moved on to other interests. Across five trips to Pakistan, visits to Sharjah, a tour to West Indies, and several assignments within India - Mudar made a name for himself as one of the finest writers on the game. The more we listened, the more we were convinced that he was the 'Forrest Gump of cricket' in the '80s. Talking Points: Covering India's tour to Pakistan in 1982-83 The fascination with Abdul Qadir Getting to know Imran Khan Javed Miandad's famous six in Sharjah The shock and disbelief in Lahore on that evening in 1987 The World Cup final at Eden Gardens The fiery passion for cricket in a small corner of Calcutta Meeting (and shocking) a president of the MCC The genius of Mushtaq Ali The magnificent Mr Pataudi The craze for football in the Calcuta of the '70s and '80s When Sanjay Manjrekar was the Wall Sachin Tendulkar's first day in Test cricket Collecting