Manoj Parmar, who kept wicket for Saurashtra in the 90s, is now an ECB-certified Level 4 coach who owns the biggest sports shop in Oxfordshire. Sandeep Dwivedi of the
Indian Express pays him a visit.
"Mr Fulkes asked me to buy a house. I could just spare 800 pounds but he would give me about 3 to 4 lakh pounds since my family was growing. He really liked what I did and he wanted to me to make Thame my home," says Parmar. In a twist of fate, the day after Parmar got the cheque, Fulkes succumbed to a heart attack. "I wanted return the cheque to the family, but his mother told me that 'If John had given the cheque, you must have done something good."