The former England captain David Ivon Gower was born on 1 April 1957. He is currently acting as a cricket broadcaster. His golden periods as a player was in 1980’s and was known as one of the most stylish left-handed batsmen of the modern era.

Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, he spent much of his upbringing in Tanzania, but boarded in England at The King’s School Canterbury. He made his debut into cricket in 1975 for Leicestershire County Cricket Club, for whom he played until 1989. From 1990 until 1993 he played for Hampshire.

Gower was an

elegant left hand batsman. He was known for being aloof. Thanks to his privately educated background and upper-class accent and manner. Gower’s languid style was often misinterpreted as indifference and a lack of seriousness.

Gower began his Test career in 1978 against Pakistan. He scored a boundary from his first ball by Pakistan’s Liaqat Ali. He at the time of retirement was the leading scorer in English history. Gower occasionally opened the innings, but was mainly a middle-order batsman.

David Gower played 119 consecutive Test innings without a duck, which is a world record. He made six noughts in his first 73 innings and none in his next 66 matches.

After his retirement in 1993, Gower gaind fame as a successful cricket broadcaster and television personality. He even was a famous face in the BBC comedy sports quiz, They Think It’s All Over from 1995 till 2003. Deeply interested in wild life, he is a Patron of the David Shepherd Foundation and also the World Land Trust. He also act as a director of an Internet wine company.

David Gower is also immortalized in cockney rhyming slang as the term “shower”. Currently he stays in Hampshire with his wife and his two daughters.

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The Pakistan team will assemble in Karachi on Friday for a brief training camp. The camp is organized ahead of the hurriedly-arranged one-day series against Sri Lanka that will start on Tuesday. The team comprising of fifteen players selected for the three-match assignment and a few reserves will warm up under the supervision of coach Intikhab Alam in Karachi. The camp is held ahead of the series opener at the National Stadium here under lights. The second ODI of the series will be played next

Wednesday and the last match will be played on January 24 in Lahore.

Intikhab, who is also a former Pakistan captain said on Thursday that the main idea behind organizing the camp is to get the players together for a few days before the start of the much-awaited series. He said that the boys are already fit as almost all of them are playing domestic matches. But the management wanted them to spend some time together in the nets before the series begins.

Intikhab also added that the team management and Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik have prepared a strategy against Sri Lanka. He sounded confident that the team has the ability to tackle the touring spin twins - Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis efficiaciously.

The Murali-Mendis spin partnership is considered as the best spin team in the world. Intikhab had earlier said that he was aware of the threat of the duo. Pakistan has lined up the series against Sri Lanka in order to fill in for the cancelled home series against India. Earlier, India was supposed to visit Pakistan in January-February.

India cancelled the tour to Pakistan because of strained relations between the two governments over last year’s terror attacks in Mumbai. After the one-dayers, Sri Lanka will come back to home to host India in a one-day series Jan 28-Feb 14. They will back in Pakistan later for the Test series.

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