19 Facts About Mushtaq Mohammad

Mushtaq Mohammad PP is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer who played in 57 Tests and 10 ODIs from 1959 to 1979.

Mushtaq Mohammad 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.

Mushtaq Mohammad was the Coach of the squad which finished as runners-up at the 1999 Cricket World Cup.

Mushtaq Mohammad did cricket commentary for Pakistani television for many years.

Mushtaq Mohammad began his first class career at the age of 13 years and 41 days, scoring 87 and taking 5 for 28 on debut.

Mushtaq Mohammad played for Karachi and Pakistan International Airlines at home and went on to represent Northamptonshire in county cricket from 1966 to 1977, scoring more than 1,000 runs in every season.

Mushtaq Mohammad captained Northamptonshire between 1975 and 1977, and in 1976 led the side to victory in the Gillette Cup, the county's first-ever trophy, and to second place in the County Championship, equalling its best-ever position.

Mushtaq Mohammad had in any case signed for World Series Cricket in Australia, but there were harsh words from the county's chairman about dressing room politics and Mushtaq Mohammad did not play for Northants again.

Mushtaq Mohammad scored 72 hundreds in a 502-game first-class career.

Mushtaq Mohammad was the first Pakistani to score 25,000 first-class runs, ending up with 31,091, more than half of them for Northamptonshire.

Mushtaq Mohammad's record included a highest score of 303 not out.

On 26 March 1959 against West Indies at Lahore, Mushtaq Mohammad succeeded his elder brothers Wazir and Hanif into Test cricket.

Mushtaq Mohammad scored 18 runs in the match and Pakistan were defeated by an innings and 156 runs.

Mushtaq Mohammad finished the year with 777 runs at the average of 86.33.

Thereby Mushtaq Mohammad became only the second player after Garfield Sobers to score a century and take five wickets in an innings in a test match on more than one occasion.

Mushtaq Mohammad is regarded as one of the first cricketers to use the reverse-sweep in the 1970s.

Mushtaq Mohammad joined Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket in the late seventies.

Mushtaq Mohammad went on to become a coach of Pakistan Cricket Team and led the side which reached the final of the 1999 Cricket World Cup.

Mushtaq Mohammad spearheaded a rare triumph for Shropshire against a first-class county in the NatWest Trophy in 1984, winning the man of the match award aged 40 for an all-round performance as the county beat Yorkshire.