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| Born | (1929-12-22)22 December 1929 Junagadh,Junagadh State,British Raj | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 13 October 2025(2025-10-13) (aged 95) Birmingham, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 14) | 13 November 1952 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 13 November 1959 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wazir Mohammad (Urdu:وزیر محمد; 22 December 1929 – 13 October 2025) was a Pakistani cricketer and banker who played in 20Test matches for thePakistan national cricket team between 1952 and 1959.[1]
Wazir was a determined middle-order batsman with a strong defence.[2] His highest Test score was 189, in the fifth Test against theWest Indies atQueen's Park Oval inPort of Spain in 1957–58, when he batted for six and three-quarter hours and laid the foundation for Pakistan's innings victory.[3][4] He was Pakistan's top-scorer with 42not out when they won by 24 runs againstEngland atThe Oval in 1954.[5]
Wazir'sfirst-class career extended from 1950 to 1964, when he captainedKarachi Whites to a narrow defeat in the final of the 1963-64Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.[6] Hecaptained thePakistan Eaglets team of young players on their tour ofEngland in 1963; 14 of the 18 players on the tour became Test cricketers, and four became Test captains.[1] Wazir was affectionately known as 'Wisden' for his encyclopaedic knowledge of cricket stats and trivia.[7]
Wazir worked as a banker, mostly with theNational Bank of Pakistan.[8] He was one of the five Mohammad brothers, four of whom (Hanif,Mushtaq,Sadiq and Wazir himself) played Test cricket for Pakistan.[9] Wazir lived inSolihull, England.[1] After the death ofIsrar Ali on 1 February 2016, he was Pakistan's oldest living Test cricketer.[10] He died inBirmingham on 13 October 2025, at the age of 95.[11]