Sarfraz Nawaz Malik was born on 1 December 1948 and is a former Pakistani Test cricketer and politician, who was instrumental in Pakistan's first Test series victories over India and England.
17 Facts About Sarfraz Nawaz
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Sarfraz Nawaz is known as one of the earliest exponents of reverse swing.
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Sarfraz's Punjabi family business was in the construction sector, his father Malik Muhammad Nawaz being a contractor, a field he himself joined in 1965, before going into professional cricket, his first construction project being a cricket stadium for Government College University Lahore but it didn't materialize due to the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.
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Sarfraz Nawaz did his matriculation from a public school in Mozang in 1962, securing second division marks, and after playing for a cricket club in Mozang he would later captain the Punjab University cricket team.
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Sarfraz Nawaz married Pakistani film actress Rani in 1985, and he himself had film offers during the 70s, for instance in 1974 while in England or later on from influential Pakistani film director Yunus Malik of Maula Jatt fame, but always refused them considering that acting is not his forte.
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Sarfraz Nawaz was found in London where he had gone to see Christmas and returned to Pakistan in time for the Third Test.
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Sarfraz Nawaz took 17 wickets in the series, the most by any player and Pakistan won their first Test series against their rivals despite having played them since 1952.
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Sarfraz Nawaz was involved in the controversial dismissal of Andrew Hilditch for handling the ball in the Second Test at the WACA in Perth.
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Hilditch picked up the ball and politely gave it to Sarfraz Nawaz, Sarfraz Nawaz appealed and Hilditch was given out.
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Sarfraz Nawaz passed on his knowledge to Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, who made this new type of bowling famous in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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When Bob Woolmer was found dead in Jamaica, Sarfraz Nawaz was quick to suggest that he was murdered, even before the postmortem, linking it to corruption in cricket.
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Sarfraz Nawaz subsequently raised concerns about the safety of Pakistani cricketers in West Indies, claiming Woolmer and Inzamam Ul Haq were getting threats from the bookies without naming his sources.
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Sarfraz Nawaz requested the involvement of Scotland Yard in the investigations, questioning the credibility of Jamaican police.
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Sarfraz Nawaz alleged that the match Pakistan lost against West Indies in the 2007 Cricket World Cup was fixed.
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Sarfraz Nawaz was elected as a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as an independent candidate in 1985 Pakistani general election.
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Later, Sarfraz Nawaz joined the Pakistan People's Party and was appointed as adviser on sports to the then PM Benazir Bhutto.
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In 2011, Sarfraz Nawaz joined Muttahida Qaumi Movement, having personally met Altaf Hussain some four years earlier.