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"Sent Me A Cake...": Ex-Pakistan Pacer Remembers Later Bollywood Actor Manoj Kumar | Cricket News

2025-04-28 00:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling

File image of late Manoj KumarFormer cricket and hockey players from Pakistan have paid rich tributes to legendary Bollywood actor and director Manoj Kumar, remembering him as someone "very hospitable and intellectual" during their interaction with him on tours to India in the past. Manoj Kumar died in Mumbai on April 4 after protracted illness and his death was mourned across the border. Kumar was born in the hilly town of Abbottabad in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province before the 1947 partition and migrated to India where he made a name for himself in Bollywood.Former Pakistan pacer Sikander Bakht said he could not meet Kumar but will always remember his act of generosity and kindness."When I took eight wickets in the Delhi Test of 1979 Manoj Kumar Saheb sent a cake to congratulate me for my feat. It was an act of kindness which I will always remember despite not meeting him on that tour," Bakht told Telecom Asia Sport (www.telecomasia.net).Another former Pakistan player Iqbal Qasim sa...


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