Mohammad Iqbal Qasim ( ur, محمد اقبال قاسم; born 6 August 1953) is a former Pakistani
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
er who played in 50
Test matches and 15
One Day Internationals between 1976 and 1988.
Qasim ended his career with 171 wickets in his 50 Test matches, at approximately 3.5 wickets a match. His accurate bowling saw his economy rate at a low 2.21. He pushed the ball through quicker than normal, not extracting great turn, but deceiving batsmen through variations in pace and trajectory.
He is most notable for spinning Pakistan to victory in the 5th Test at
Bangalore
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of the 1987 India-Pakistan series, and thus securing Pakistan's first series win on Indian soil. He took 9/121, including the key scalp of
Sunil Gavaskar
Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (Marathi pronunciation: uniːl ɡaːʋəskəɾ ; born 10 July 1949), is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer who represented India and Bombay from 1971 to 1987. Gavaskar is acknowledged as one of the grea ...
for 96 in the last innings of the game.
Iqbal Qasim remained in the shadows of his teammate, leg spinner
Abdul Qadir, although his career returns are superior by average and very similar by strike rate.
He became Pakistan's chief selector in 2012.
Iqbal Qasim named Pakistan chief selector
Retrieved 5 December 2013.
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1953 births
Living people
Pakistan One Day International cricketers
Pakistan Test cricketers
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Karachi Whites cricketers
National Bank of Pakistan cricketers
Karachi cricketers
Sindh cricketers
Cheshire cricketers
Pakistani cricket administrators