Many years later, people who have played with him against Vinod Kambli in York poet at that time, and have read media reports about his alcohol addiction, and have seen the struggle to speak Kambli during the interview, they keep asking the same question: What happened to Kambli? NASA Hussain Bradford, who is the main groundsman at the Park Avenue ground in Bradford, is a region where people living in Pakistan and India dominate. NASA, coming from Mirpur, Pakistan, bowled Kambli once. Like NASA, Kambli, now in the 50s and in the early 90s, he was a younger cricketer who dreamed.
When Kambli came to play club cricket in Yorkshire, he was just 19 years old, he did not play Tests but was like a legendary players. At that time, as an Asian, Sachin’s joining Yorkshire was a big news as well as the good thing was that he had brought with him his friend Vinod Kambli, played with NASA in the Minor League. NASA recalled the then Vinod Kambli and said that he never met someone who attacks like Vinod with the first ball. NASA still remembers the first ball he had thrown to Kambli. “They just run on the track and hit a six on the first ball, the youth of India, never seen before, never heard before, and he comes and goes out.
Soli, who wrote a book called Beyond Boundary, has dedicated a chapter to Kambli, a treasure of cricket stories, which removes Kambli’s brilliant batting and her ups and downs outside the field. Kambli is part of the folklore of Yorkshire, he is a mysterious character, whose life story gives rise to both mistrust and regrets. Like all colorful characters, these are only stories that act like bricks in myth house. Soli Adam, who hosted around 400 subcontinent players in England and brought them, has many such stories. He is not an agent but a passionate and kind businessman towards cricket. He was also the captain of the team for whom Kambli used to play.
Soli was hosting about 10 to 15 Indian cricketers at her home. Many people were staying there; Others had made a habit of going there for food. The club did not have much money, so most people used to work during the day – some people worked in Soli’s fuel station, factory or shopping center. One day we were sitting 10 cricketers near Soli. Except Vinod and Sachin, everyone had a part-time job. So a Mumbai cricketer asked Vinod – ‘Since you earn only 25 pounds in a match, why don’t you work at any house of Soli? Kambli did not even think for a minute, immediately came the answer: ‘I and Sachin will earn money by playing Test cricket, I do not want to distract my attention by doing part-time job. He was extraordinary, so confident and then when he was very young, there was no Test batsman but he was confident.
In the 90s, Vinod Kambli got a 700 -pound bonus for his brilliant performance, which Soli mentioned in his book, remembering the incident, Soli wrote in his book that Soli used to go to Mumbai and hand over money to Kambli’s father, then Kambli’s father said that he had never seen such a huge amount together. After this, when Vinod returned to India, he took all the money from his father and spent with his friends. Vinod never cared for money, nor did he have any respect for things in his mind. In his book, Soli writes that when he thinks of a talented child’s tragic story “, he gets tears in his eyes. He is sad because Kambli often referred to Soli in the English media as his” as his father “. The last paragraph of Kambli chapter is like helping an old friend,” I did not try to contact him many times, but I did not try to contact him many times. Even if Vinod gets to see it by chance, then I want him to know that we love him very much… Vinod, we all remember you.