"I used to come from Dadar to the Cricket Club of India to practice and would hang off the trains, just
missing the telegraph poles by
inches. I’d carry my heavy kit bag
and walk back from Dadar station
to Dadar Parsi Colony. It wasn’t
easy but I was determined to make something of myself. Unless you have that burning ambition in
anything, you won’t succeed.”
Farokh Engineer, former test
wicketkeeper-batsman, quoted in a
documentary Four on Eleven: The
Fading Glory of Parsi Cricket by
Shrikaran Beecharaju, sunday
mid-day, August 25, 2024
"There are very few young Parsi boys left to take up any sport. There were no Parsis in my school......