41 Facts About Javed Miandad

Mohammad Javed Miandad PP SI, popularly known as Javed Miandad, is a Pakistani cricket coach, commentator and former cricketer known for his unconventional style of captaincy and batting.

Javed Miandad played for Pakistan in Tests and One-Day Internationals between 1975 and 1996.

Javed Miandad was ranked 44th among the best cricketers of all time by the ESPN Legends of Cricket.

Javed Miandad has served as a captain of the Pakistan team.

Javed Miandad is widely known for his historic last-ball six against India in 1986 at Sharjah, when 4 runs were required to win off the final ball, and for his contribution with the bat in Pakistan's victory in the 1992 ICC World Cup.

Javed Miandad's towering, last-ball six off Chetan Sharma in 1986 was the first time that an international game had ended in that fashion until then.

Javed Miandad had three coaching stints with the Pakistan national team.

In 2009, Javed Miandad was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

Javed Miandad's parents moved from Palanpur, Gujarat, India, where his father, Miandad Noor Mohammad, worked in the police department, posted in cities like Ahmedabad and Baroda, whilst at the same time he was overseeing the sports clubs in the city for the Nawab.

Javed Miandad married Tahira Saigol, daughter of Khalid Saigol and Farida Hayat in 1981.

Javed Miandad's son Junaid Miandad is married to Mahrukh Ibrahim, daughter of Dawood Ibrahim, an Indian born mafia kingpin.

Javed Miandad told the press that his son and Ibrahim's daughter met while studying together in the UK.

In 2011, Javed Miandad recorded a na`at for Geo TV; his Sakoon Paya was well received by his fans but he did not subsequently read any more na`at.

Javed Miandad made his Test debut against New Zealand at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore on 9 October 1976.

Javed Miandad scored 163 and 25 not out in that match, and became the youngest batsman to score a century on debut, at the age of 19 years and 119 days; he took a wicket in the match and Pakistan won the match by six wickets.

Javed Miandad scored 85 runs in the second innings, failing to accomplish the unique feat of scoring a double-century and a century in a single match.

Javed Miandad was the highest run-scorer of the series, with 504 runs from five innings at an average of 126.00.

Javed Miandad took five wickets in the series, including three wickets for 85 runs at the Adelaide Oval.

Javed Miandad scored 60 of the 128 runs in the Pakistan's first innings of the third Test match, after they were 14 runs for four wickets.

Javed Miandad batted consistently throughout the series, but could not get support from his teammates as a captain.

Javed Miandad scored 205 runs from five innings at the average of 41.00, including two half-centuries.

Javed Miandad scored his career best 280 not out, before the captain Imran Khan, decided to declare the innings, thus stopping him from "possibly breaking the individual Test world record of Sir Garfield Sobers".

Javed Miandad scored 225 runs in the series at the average of 75.00, including 99 runs at Bangalore.

Javed Miandad scored 131 runs against Australia at the Adelaide Oval, the third Test of the series between the teams.

Javed Miandad captained the Pakistan cricket team in the next series against the same team, which was played in New Zealand.

Javed Miandad, who was captaining Pakistan, made his third double century in the first Test at Iqbal Stadium.

Javed Miandad's aggregate of 8,832 Test runs was a Pakistani record until Younis Khan broke it in 2015.

Javed Miandad scored six double centuries which is the most by a Pakistani and 6th overall.

Javed Miandad became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score a century in both his 1st and 100th test.

Javed Miandad made his highest score of 280 not out against India.

Javed Miandad made his One Day International debut against the West Indies at Edgbaston, Birmingham in the 1975 Cricket World Cup.

Javed Miandad's last ODI was a World Cup match, and Pakistan lost the match.

Javed Miandad scored 119 not out off 77 balls with a strike rate of 154.54 in the match.

Pakistan recorded their first win at a major tournament in 1986's Austral-Asia Cup held in Sharjah and Javed Miandad finished his innings with 116 not out in the final against India.

Javed Miandad captained Pakistan in six more tests in 1985, and thereafter broadly shared Test captaincy duties with Imran Khan until the end of his career.

Javed Miandad is one of the few individuals to have coached the Pakistan Cricket Team over three or more separate occasions.

Strangely, Javed Miandad faxed his resignation to the PCB in late April 1999, just before the 1999 Cricket World Cup.

In 2000, after Moin Khan took over captaincy from Saeed Anwar, Javed Miandad was reappointed as the coach.

Javed Miandad was removed along with Moin Khan in April 2001 after Pakistan lost the ODI series in New Zealand.

Pakistan lost the home ODI series to India in 2004 and following the loss of the Test series, Javed Miandad was shown the door in June 2004, being replaced by South African Bob Woolmer.

Javed Miandad was again appointed as a batting consultant for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka.