Aslam Khan, sometimes known as Prince Aslam Khan (15 March 1935 – 29 April 1980) was a Pakistani cricketer who played first-class cricket in Pakistan between 1955 and 1978. Some people consider him the inventor of doosra. A son of Ghulam Moinuddin Khanji, he was a member of the royal family of Manavadar, a

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which is now part of the Indian state of Gujarat. Aslam Khan was a left-arm spinner. In the final of the Ayub Trophy in 1964-65 he took 6 for 45 and 5 for 92 (match figures of 81.5–43–137–11) to help Karachi to an innings victory over Lahore Education Board. In a semi-final of the Ayub Trophy in 1965-66, playing for Karachi Blues against Public Works Department, he took 3 for 35 and 5 for 41 in another victory. He played his last first-class match in February 1978 for the Pakistan Security Printing Corporation team in the Patron's Trophy. A month short of his 43rd birthday, he took 6 for 154 off 47 eight-ball overs against Sargodha, who won by an innings and 143 runs. He batted at number 10 or 11 and only once reached 40 in first-class cricket. On that occasion he scored 112 not out as

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scored 762 and beat Karachi Blues by an innings in a semi-final of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in 1956-57. He also took three catches and three wickets in the match. He was a flamboyant character, "playing practical jokes, dating a series of movie stars, driving to matches (often late) in a

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, firing revolver shots in the air in protest at an umpire's decision". Mushtaq Mohammad credited him with the invention of the doosra. Peter Oborne, ''Wounded Tiger: The History of Cricket in Pakistan'', Simon & Schuster, London, 2014, p. 139. His father, the last Nawab of Manavadar, also played first-class cricket and represented India at hockey.

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