Antao D'Souza (born 17 January 1939) is a Pakistani former

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er who played in six

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, from 1959 to 1962. He was the second Christian from four Christians to play Test cricket for Pakistan. He was a medium pace bowler and obdurate tail-end batsman. Born and raised in

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(at the time part of Portuguese India), D'Souza's father emigrated to

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in 1947, where D'Souza attended St Patrick's High School.Dias, Jude (2011
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'' online. Published 17 April 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2012. His brothers, Vincent D'Souza and

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, also played first-class cricket. D'Souza toured England in 1962, heading the batting averages (53) as he remained not out in five of his six innings. His bowling was as ineffective as everyone else on that tour, which Pakistan lost 0–4. Domestically, D'Souza played for

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, and

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. Given a minimum of ten innings, D'Souza is one of only two Test cricketers whose batting averages exceeded their highest score. The other was the

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n cricketer Sadashiv Shinde. In 1999, D'Souza migrated with his wife and their four children to

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