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The obdurate Nazar Mohammad was born on March 5, 1921. Abhishek Mukherjee looks at the man who faced the first ball and scored the first hundred for Pakistan in Tests.
Nazar Mohammad was for Pakistan approximately what Charles Bannerman was for Australia (and for the world): he faced the first ball for them, he scored the first hundred for them, played a significant role in their first Test victory, he was the first man to carry bat through an innings for them, and more.
He was one of those obdurate batsmen the bowlers would hate bowling to: he played five Tests, all against India during Pakistan’s maiden Test series; he opened batting with Hanif Mohammad in every Test, and throughout the series the pair was involved in a serious example what Ramachandra Guha had referred to as tuk-tuk (block-block) in an article on Rediff.
In 45 First-Class matches (played over a span of 13 years) he scored 2,739 runs at 41.50 with eight hundreds and held 40 catches. Five of these matches were Tests, in which he managed 277 runs at an impressive 39.57 and had also come up with seven catches.
NAZAR MOHAMMAD
NAZAR MOHAMMAD
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