Athletes often participate in competitions as underdogs but few go on and win them. And if it's a World Championship, then winning it is almost unimaginable.

Anil Nayar made history by becoming India's first squash world champion when he won the Drysdale Cup, a world championship for juniors in London back in 1965. "And I entered the competition as an underdog," he proudly told mid-day on the sidelines of the launch of his biography, Lucky—A portrait of a legendary Indian-American squash champion, written by his wife Jean Nayar, and published by Sach Sports, at the Cricket Club of India's CK Nayudu Hall on Thursday.