India, Oct. 6 -- Six years ago, the British singer-songwriter Nadine Shah gave an interview to Wisden, a publication nicknamed the Bible of Cricket. A rather unusual platform, one would think, for a fiercely uncompromising indie rocker to choose for a media interaction.
Yet, as Shah said then, "If you're Pakistani, cricket is like mother's milk."
She was born to a Pakistani father and an English mother with some Norwegian ancestry, and derived her passion for the game from her subcontinental genes.
Her love for cricket began as a child, when her father began to take her to the Durham County Cricket Club. Here, during matches, batsmen would rub her head for luck before heading out.
Shah, now 38 and one of Britain's rising stars in contem...