The auctioneer stepped forward, gavel in hand, he looked round the room, then said: “Welcome all you investors, team captains, coaches, advisors to the new edition of the IPL—the IMPACT PLAYER LEAGUE! As you pick, ponder, dip into your purses for various players from across the globe, and other T20 tournaments, for Impact Players, I’d like to introduce into the mix, a man, I first saw on a Bush transistor radio, back in the 1970s.

Folklore has it that he once hit a six onto the Rajabai Tower and shattered the glass of the clock.