The book also mentions the cricketing pursuits of current Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who played a first class match though he was out for a duck and also a warm-up match against England before the World Cup in which he scored a single before being bowled by Phil DeFreitas. 

Oborne says Bhutto was a decent player and crazy about cricket when he was a youngster and loved to be near cricket stars, such as Mushtaq Ali, who scored India's first Test century overseas, or the precocious Alimuddin, Pakistan's Test opening batsman who appeared for Rajasthan in the Ranji Trophy.