1. At his peak, he was considered one of the best batsmen in the world despite playing at a time when Pakistan played very little Test cricket; Hanif played just 55 Test matches in a career spanning 17 years.
18 Facts About Hanif Mohammad
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Hanif Mohammad was the first Pakistani to score a triple hundred in a Test match.
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Hanif Mohammad was born to a Memon family that had settled in Junagadh state.
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Hanif Mohammad was trained by Abdul Aziz, an Afghan cricket player, who had earlier played in Ranji Trophy for Jamnagar and father of Indian cricketer, Salim Durani.
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Hanif Mohammad made his first-class debut playing for Pakistan against the MCC in November 1951.
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Hanif Mohammad has the world record for scoring the slowest test triple century in terms of minutes and the only player in test history to have spent over 970 minutes to score a test triple ton.
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Hanif Mohammad captained Pakistan in 11 Tests from 1964 to 1967 before retiring in 1969.
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Hanif Mohammad made 499 for Karachi in a match against Bahawalpur before being run out attempting his five hundredth run; this stood for more than 35 years before being passed by Brian Lara in 1994.
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Hanif Mohammad is known to have played the slowest test innings when he scored 20 off 223 balls at a strike rate of 8.97.
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Hanif Mohammad was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1968 and in January 2009 he was named along with two other Pakistani players, Imran Khan and Javed Miandad, among the inaugural batch of 55 inductees into the ICC's Hall of Fame.
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In one Test match against Australia, Hanif Mohammad scored a century in the first innings.
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Later in a press conference Jarman admitted that Hanif Mohammad was not out.
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In 1972, after retiring from international cricket, Hanif Mohammad co-founded the magazine The Cricketer Pakistan.
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Hanif Mohammad served as the team manager for Pakistan International Airlines.
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Hanif Mohammad's mother Ameer Bee was a national badminton champion in pre-independence British India.
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Hanif Mohammad had been undergoing treatment for lung cancer in Karachi's Aga Khan Hospital.
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Hanif Mohammad was one of the original inductees into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
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Hanif Mohammad received the Pride of Performance Award in 1959 by the Government of Pakistan.