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A free scan shows the junk files, broken settings and background clutter dragging Windows down - then fixes them in one click.Free scan · Windows 10 & 11In his autobiography, Syed Kirmani recalls joining India’s senior team for its 1971 England tour as a reserve wicketkeeper, alongside P. Krishnamurthy, behind Farokh Engineer. One early mishap left the two reserves scrambling to reach a warm-up match after they slept through a wake-up call. Kirmani’s account is about his first England tour with India’s national team—not his first trip to England, which he says was with the Indian Schools team in 1967.
What Kirmani remembers about the 1971 tour
The account appears in Stumped: An Autobiography, credited to Syed Kirmani with Debashish Sengupta and Dakshesh Pathak. Kirmani writes that he and Krishnamurthy were selected as reserve wicketkeepers for the 1971 England tour under captain Ajit Wadekar; Farokh Engineer was the principal wicketkeeper. The reserves initially played county games. For Kirmani, moving from schoolboy cricket into the senior team was a source of excitement.
He recalls learning by watching England wicketkeeper Alan Knott in county cricket and observing Engineer during the Tests. Kirmani describes the trip as a period of learning, writing: “For me, the England tour was a great learning experience.” The sentence is Kirmani’s recollection as reproduced in the Scroll.in excerpt from his autobiography.
Why Kirmani and Krishnamurthy missed the warm-up
Kirmani says the two reserves shared a room and slept through a requested wake-up call before a warm-up match against Indian Gymkhana. A receptionist eventually told them the team had already left and that manager Colonel Hemu Adhikari was waiting. According to Kirmani, they were reprimanded, their weekly allowance was withheld for more than two weeks, and they took a taxi to the ground. He recalls that Krishnamurthy kept wicket throughout the day.
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These are personal details from Kirmani’s memoir account; the sources cited here do not independently corroborate each part of the episode.
What “first tour of England” means here
Kirmani had been to England earlier: in a separate interview, he said he toured with the Indian Schools team in 1967. The autobiography excerpt’s story concerns his first England tour with India’s senior national side, in 1971. Keeping those two trips distinct avoids turning “first” into a claim about his first-ever visit to England.
The Oval and a separate later-tour anecdote
Kirmani remembers India’s win at The Oval as historic. The excerpt also recounts a reception at Indian High Commissioner B.K. Nehru’s residence, but places that episode in its discussion of the 1974 tour, not the 1971 trip. Any details of that reception should therefore be understood as Kirmani’s account of a later tour.
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The publisher lists the paperback of Stumped: An Autobiography at 272 pages, published in November 2024, ISBN 9780143464730, with an MRP of ₹499. Price and availability can change. See the publisher’s paperback listing.
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