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| Born | (1943-11-22)22 November 1943 (age 82) Junagadh,Junagadh State,British India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-armlegbreakgoogly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Wazir Mohammad (brother) Raees Mohammad (brother) Hanif Mohammad (brother) Sadiq Mohammad (brother) Shoaib Mohammad (nephew) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 31) | 26 March 1959 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 24 March 1979 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 5) | 11 February 1973 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 3 November 1978 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mushtaq MohammadPP (Urdu:مشتاق محمد; born 22 November 1943) is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer who played in 57Tests and 10ODIs from 1959 to 1979. A right-handed batsman and a leg-spinner, he is one of the most successful Pakistaniall-rounders and went on to captain his country in nineteen Test matches. He was the first and to date only Pakistani to score a century and take five wickets in an innings in the same test match twice.[1] He was the Coach of the squad which finished asrunners-up at the1999 Cricket World Cup.
Mushtaq was one of the five Mohammad brothers, four of whom (Wazir,Sadiq,Hanif and Mushtaq himself) playedTest cricket forPakistan, as did Hanif's sonShoaib. Another brotherRaees was once twelfth man for Pakistan. Mushtaq's mother Ameer Bee was a national badminton champion in pre-independence British India.
Mushtaq coached theUnited States national cricket team. He also did cricket commentary forPakistani television for many years.
Born inJunagadh in what would become a border region of India withPakistan, Mushtaq as a child attended theChurch Mission High School inKarachi.[2][3]
Mushtaq began hisfirst class career at the age of 13 years and 41 days, scoring 87 and taking 5 for 28 on debut. He played for Karachi and Pakistan International Airlines at home and went on to representNorthamptonshire incounty cricket from 1966 to 1977, scoring more than 1,000 runs in every season. In both 1967 and 1971 he stayed with the county during Pakistan tours of England, playing for the touring side only in Test matches and a few other fixtures.
Mushtaq captainedNorthamptonshire between 1975 and 1977, and in 1976 led the side to victory in theGillette Cup, the county's first-ever trophy, and to second place in theCounty Championship, equalling its best-ever position. But his captaincy ended in some controversy. According toWisden, Mushtaq resigned, claiming that his future had not been made clear and that there were rumours – which turned out to be true – that former captainJim Watts was to be reappointed for 1978. Mushtaq had in any case signed forWorld Series Cricket in Australia, but there were harsh words from the county's chairman about dressing room politics and Mushtaq did not play for Northants again.
He scored 72 hundreds in a 502-game first-class career. Mushtaq was the first Pakistani to score 25,000 first-class runs, ending up with 31,091, more than half of them for Northamptonshire. His record included a highest score of 303 not out. As a wrist-spinner, he bowled the legbreak, googly and flipper.
On 26 March 1959 againstWest Indies at Lahore, Mushtaq succeeded his elder brothersWazir andHanif into Test cricket. Based on his publicised date of birth of 22 November 1943, he was then 15 years and 124 days, the youngest person to play Test cricket at the time. He scored 18 runs in the match and Pakistan were defeated by an innings and 156 runs. The first of his ten Test hundreds would come in his 6th Test, 101 against India inFeroz Shah Kotla, when he was 17 years and 78 days old, which was the youngest age for a test centurion. The record stood for over 40 years until it was bettered byMohammad Ashraful. His next century came against England in 1962 and he would have to wait another 9 years until his next century.
In 1970 he played for theRest of the World against England in the series that was later stripped of its Test status. Early in 1973, he scored 121 againstAustralia atSydney and 201 againstNew Zealand in his next match a month later. In the latter game, he became the only cricketer other thanDenis Atkinson to score a double century and take five wickets in aTest match. He finished the year with 777 runs at the average of 86.33.
He captained Pakistan in 19 Test matches from 1976–77 to 1978–79. During this time, he scored 121 and 56 and took eight wickets againstWest Indies atPort of Spain in 1976–77 to inflict a rare home defeat on West Indies. Thereby Mushtaq also became only the second player afterGarfield Sobers to score a century and takefive wickets in an innings in a test match on more than one occasion.[4] He led Pakistan to a 2–0 win overIndia when the two countries played their first series against each other in eighteen years in 1978–79.[5]
Mushtaq is regarded as one of the first cricketers to use thereverse-sweep in the 1970s. Though his elder brotherHanif Mohammad is sometimes credited as the inventor. Cricket coachBob Woolmer has been credited with popularising the stroke.[6][5]
He joinedKerry Packer'sWorld Series Cricket in the late seventies. He went on to become a coach ofPakistan Cricket Team and led the side which reached the final of the 1999Cricket World Cup.
Mushtaq also appeared below first-class level in Minor Counties cricket forShropshire in 1984-1985[3] (appearing for them in 15 matches and achieving an exact century in one match),[7] as well as forStaffordshire andNorthumberland. He spearheaded a rare triumph for Shropshire against a first-class county in theNatWest Trophy in 1984, winning theman of the match award aged 40 for an all-round performance as the county beatYorkshire.[8] At club level in the 1980s in England he played in the Birmingham League for Walsall andOld Hill inCradley Heath.[3]
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