The Jamshedpur team lifted the
Jiji Irani Challenge Cup Cricket Tournament in Nagpur
Dilnavaz Bhagwagar
Cricket was his life’s passion,” said Dr Jamshed Irani when speaking of his father Jiji’s commitment to the game at the inauguration of the 32nd Jiji Irani Challenge Cup Cricket Tournament on November 3, 2018. Visiting Parsi teams from Jamshedpur, Calcutta, Secunderabad and Surat had come to play with the Nagpur host team in the five-day pentangular match. In a lighter vein Jamshed confided, "I think my dad would have been happier had I been a first class cricketer, rather than the MD (managing director) of TISCO (now Tata Steel)!... Though I have been away for 60 years, Nagpur is......