“Don’t cry.
I’ll come back as your first child.”
Those were the last words Farokh Engineer’s mother said to him.
He was playing a match when he got the news that she was critically ill.
He abandoned his innings at tea and rushed to the airport, still in his cricket gear.
The flight was full.
Then the pilot made an announcement asking if anyone would give Farokh their seat. ?
Passengers did.
He reached his mother’s bedside.
She died soon after.
Years later, Farokh’s first child was a daughter.
He named her Minnie, after his mother.
She had kept her promise. ❤️
That story gives you chills every single time.
Farokh Engineer was Indian cricket’s ultimate showman—fearless hooker of express pace, flying behind the stumps without an ounce of self-preservation, and possessing that magnetic, larger-than-life flair. But stripping off the pads mid-match, sprinting through an airport in his whites, and an entire cabin of strangers rallying just so a boy could hold his dying mother’s hand shows the sheer humanity underneath the swagger.
I’ll come back as your first child.”
Those were the last words Farokh Engineer’s mother said to him.
He was playing a match when he got the news that she was critically ill.
He abandoned his innings at tea and rushed to the airport, still in his cricket gear.
The flight was full.
Then the pilot made an announcement asking if anyone would give Farokh their seat. ?
Passengers did.
He reached his mother’s bedside.
She died soon after.
Years later, Farokh’s first child was a daughter.
He named her Minnie, after his mother.
She had kept her promise. ❤️
That story gives you chills every single time.
Farokh Engineer was Indian cricket’s ultimate showman—fearless hooker of express pace, flying behind the stumps without an ounce of self-preservation, and possessing that magnetic, larger-than-life flair. But stripping off the pads mid-match, sprinting through an airport in his whites, and an entire cabin of strangers rallying just so a boy could hold his dying mother’s hand shows the sheer humanity underneath the swagger.