Saira Banu Pays Tribute to Dilip Kumar’s Sporting Dreams Through Cricket Snapshots

• Saira Banu posts still of Dilip Kumar playing cricket.
• Saira’s recent Instagram update features a vintage black-and-white picture of Dilip Kumar.
• She also received praise for her improved bowling from Dilip Kumar’s close friend Raj Kapoor.

Saira Banu’s recently created Instagram account continues to provide delightful content. She has been sharing precious photographs and anecdotes about her cherished moments with her late husband, the iconic actor Dilip Kumar.

Saira’s recent Instagram update features a vintage black-and-white picture of Dilip Kumar engaged in a cricket game. With a resolute expression, he confidently wields the cricket bat, exhibiting his expertise in the sport.

Saira wrote in the text that she loves this picture since the actress once dreamed of playing cricket.

She wrote, “I always love to see this photograph as I know of his yearning as a youngster to become the country’s best sportsman! However, The Almighty and Fate had fashioned a very different destiny for Mohammed Yousuf Khan… at that time, every evening after college he always went to the grounds behind the Metro Cinema to play cricket and football with passion. With other like minded sports enthusiasts… Sahibji sweetly narrated to me how with great excitement he purchased his first cricket bat and sports shoes from a shop near Metro Cinema…! The athletic side of Dilip Sahib was so strong while in school and college that he emerged a winner and victorious also in every 200 meters race.”

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Saira also mentioned in the post how her late spouse had once taught her how to bowl. She did this in order to get ready for a charity cricket game in which she participated on the late actor-director Raj Kapoor’s team. She also received praise for her improved bowling from Dilip Kumar’s close friend Raj Kapoor.

Saira added, “A funny incident I recollect was when we were just married.…Once all the film stars got together to play a benefit cricket match…. Sahib ji trained me for a week long in our garden for bowling… we were to play in Dilip Kumar Sahib’s Team and Raj Kapoor Saab’s team.…With my bowling… can you believe I bowled the captain out first ball…to which Raj ji could not stop laughing “Arrey, yeh ladki toh serious ho gayi hai”…eventually I bowled out 8 of them.”