Duncan Sharpe
Duncan Albert Sharpe (born 3 August 1937) is a Pakistani former cricketer who played in three Test matches in 1959–60. Sharpe is of Anglo-Indian heritage, and was the third Christian to play Test cricket for Pakistan. Career in Pakistan Sharpe's family had lived in British India since the middle of the 19th century as their ancestors migrated from England. They were relatives of the English novelist William Thackeray. Sharpe was born in Rawalpindi but grew up in Lahore, where his mother was a nurse. He was one of three brothers, who were all sent to board at St. Anthony High School, Lahore, after their parents separated.Richard Heller and Peter Oborne, ''White on Green: Celebrating the Drama of Pakistan Cricket'', Simon & Schuster, London, 2016, pp. 102–11. Duncan Sharpe took a job as a clerk with Pakistan Railways when he was 17. He was described as a "strikingly handsome man who was once genuinely mistaken for the actor Cary Grant". Sharpe occasionally wrote articles for th ...
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Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's capital Islamabad, and the two are jointly known as the " twin cities" because of the social and economic links between them. Rawalpindi is on the Pothohar Plateau, known for its ancient Hindu and Buddhist heritage, especially in the neighbouring town of Taxila, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 1765, the ruling Gakhars were defeated and the city came under Sikh rule, becoming an important city within the Sikh Empire based at Lahore. The city's ''Babu Mohallah'' neighbourhood was once home to a co