Mohammad Aslam Khokhar (5 January 1920 – 22 January 2011) was a Pakistani

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er who played in one Test match in 1954.

Biography

Khokhar was born in

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to a Khokhar family and was a cousin of Anwar Hussain Khokhar. Khokhar played in 45 first-class matches between 1938–39 and 1963–64, and scored the first ever

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in first-class cricket in Pakistan when, batting for

against

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in December 1947, he made 117. In the second Test in England he batted at number nine, scoring 16 and 18. He also umpired 3 Tests in the 1970s. Khokhar died in a Lahore hospital after a prolonged illness, on 22 January 2011. Before his death, he was Pakistan's oldest surviving Test cricketer.

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