Mohammad Ilyas Mahmood ( ur, ; born 19 March 1946) is a former Pakistani

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er who played in ten Test matches between 1964 and 1969.

Cricket career

Ilyas was an opening batsman and occasional leg-spin bowler. He played

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in Pakistan from 1961 to 1972. He scored 126 in the Third Test against

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in April 1965, when Pakistan needed 202 to win in five and half hours, and reached the target with a session to spare for the loss of only two wickets. He made his highest first-class score in December 1964, when he scored 154 against

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. He toured Australia a second time with the Pakistan team in 1972–73, but was injured early in the tour and omitted from the team before it left for the New Zealand leg of the tour. At the time he decided to stay in Australia to live, but he later returned to Pakistan. He served for a time as a national selector, but was dismissed in 2011 for allegedly violating the

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's code of conduct.

Family

He is the father-in-law of

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and

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."Selector files complaint against Farhat"
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Nazar Mohammad Nazar Mohammad (5 March 1921 – 12 July 1996) was a Pakistani cricketer who played in five Test matches in 1952. He was educated at Islamia College, Lahore. Family His brother Feroz Nizami was a famous music composer while his other bro ...

was his uncle.

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