[Cricket]. BHATTI, Gul Hameed (editor)

Cricketstar. Pakistan's National Cricket Magazine. Volume 1, Number 1, June 1985 [to] Volume 1, Number 6, November 1985

Lahore, Syed Abbas Kazim, 1985.

Quarto, six issues bound in one volume, 128, 112, 104, 112, 116, and 104 pages (including the covers) with numerous illustrations (many in colour).

Later binder's cloth, retaining the original colour-pictorial wrappers (a few slightly cropped at the edges when rebound); newsprint a little tanned; two leaves lacking from Number 5; a few creases, marks and other minor signs of use and age; in good condition overall.

The first six issues of this short-lived magazine, launched by legendary Pakistani cricket journalist Gul Hameed Bhatti. By early 1986 he was back writing for 'The Cricketer Pakistan', so these issues may be the extent of the publication (see Mohammad Naukhez Arsalan: 'Remembering Gul Hameed Bhatti' in 'Scoreline', 20 November 2020). It is sometimes referred to as 'Cricket Star'.

Padwick II: 2324 ('continues "Padwick I" 3961 to date'. That reference is to 'The Cricketer' (Pakistan), with the comment '1972 to date | issue for Oct. 1977 was vol. 6, no. 7'. The editorial in the first number of 'Cricketstar' does not substantiate this).

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