He says that according to Kardar, Bhutto's “interest in cricket was that of a scholar.

He knew the history of cricket, including such technical developments as the introduction of the third wicket and the sightscreen”.

Oborne quotes Bhutto's friend Omar Kureishi, a newspaper columnist, author and radio commentator in describing Bhutto's cricketing prowess, “We had been schoolboys together at the cathedral School in Bombay. We had played cricket, indeed that had been the bond.”

Kureishi later travelled to study at the University of California, where he was soon joined by Bhutto. They shared lodgings and played cricket together at Griffith Park for a club called the Corinthians, for whom Bhutto opened the batting.