Farokh The Cricketing Cavalier by Colin Evans. Published in 2017 by Max Books, Epworth House,34 Wellington Road, Nantwich, Cheshire CW5 7BX; website: www.max-books.co.uk; email: maxcricket@btinternet.com. Pp: 208. Price: £ 12.99.
Without doubt, the greatest ever Parsi sports superstar — Farokh Engineer, earlier of the Dadar Parsi Colony and lately, Lancashire — flamboyant, outspoken, colorful, swashbuckling — is a dream subject for a biographer. However, his authorized biography by Colin Evans, a writer on cricket and author of books on forensics, is remarkably insipid.
Authorised biographies are, by their very nature, biased. Nevertheless, they often make fascinating reading of hitherto unknown personal details,......