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Pakistani Cricket Team In The West Indies In 1957–58
The Pakistan national cricket team toured the West Indies from January to March 1958 and played a five-match Test series against the West Indies cricket team which the West Indies won 3–1. Pakistan were captained by Abdul Hafeez Kardar; West Indies by Gerry Alexander. The series was noted for high-scoring feats with Hanif Mohammad scoring 337 in 970 minutes at Bridgetown and then Garfield Sobers scoring a then world record 365 not out In cricket, a batsman is not out if they come out to bat in an innings and have not been dismissed by the end of an innings. The batsman is also ''not out'' while their innings is still in progress. Occurrence At least one batter is not out at ... at Sabina Park. Sobers shared a second wicket partnership of 446 with Conrad Hunte who scored 260. Test series summary First Test Second Test Third Test Fourth Test Fifth Test References External links * 1958 in Pakistani cricket 1958 in West Indian cricket 1957-58 Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan National Cricket Team
The Pakistan men's national cricket team represents Pakistan in international cricket. It is controlled by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the governing body for cricket in Pakistan, which is a Full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC). Pakistan compete in cricket tours and tournaments sanctioned by the PCB and other regional or international cricket bodies in Test cricket, Test, One Day International (ODI), and Twenty20 International (T20) formats. Pakistan were given Test status in 1952 following a recommendation from India cricket team, India, but faced limited international success until the 1980s, when they became fixtures in the latter stages of tournaments. They won their first international trophy, the ICC Cricket World Cup, ICC World Cup, in 1992, and then won the Asia Cup in 2000. They saw increased success in the 21st century, winning the T20 World Cup in 2009, the Asia Cup in 2012, and ICC Champions Trophy in 2017. Pakistan won the first Asian Test C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf Valentine
Alfred Louis Valentine (28 April 1930 – 11 May 2004) was a West Indian cricketer in the 1950s and 1960s. He is most famous for his performance in the West Indies' 1950 tour of England, which was immortalised in the '' Victory Calypso''. The 1950 tour The West Indies toured England in 1950. They had a good batting line-up including the "three W's" (Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell), but they were unusually short of bowlers. They took two young spinners, 20-year-old Alf Valentine and 21-year-old Sonny Ramadhin, who had only played two first-class matches each. Valentine in particular was a surprising choice as he had only taken two wickets in those matches at an average of 95, but somehow he had caught the eye of the West Indies captain, John Goddard. Valentine did not impress in the first few matches of the tour, and was not certain to be in the Test team, until he took 8 for 26 and 5 for 41 in the final warm-up match before the Tests. The West Indies beat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fazal Mahmood
Fazal Mahmood PP, HI (18 February 1927 – 30 May 2005) was a Pakistani international cricketer. He played in 34 Test matches and took 139 wickets at a bowling average of 24.70. The first Pakistani to pass 100 wickets, he reached the landmark in his 22nd match. Fazal played his earliest first-class cricket for Northern India in the Ranji Trophy and strong performances there led to selection for India's inaugural tour of Australia in 1947–48. The independence of Pakistan, prior to the tour led Fazal, a Muslim, to withdraw and choose Pakistan. He played a major role in first gaining Test status for the new nation and then establishing them as a Test match team. He took ten wickets in a Test on four occasions; those against India, England and Australia coming in Pakistan's maiden victories over those teams. Fazal's most memorable performance came on the 1954 tour of England, when he had a leading role as Pakistan won at The Oval to square the series. He took match figures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collie Smith
O'Neil Gordon "Collie" Smith (5 May 1933 – 9 September 1959) was a West Indian international cricketer. A hard-hitting batsman and off-spin bowler, Smith was rated highly in West Indies. He idolised Jim Laker, for which reason he was nicknamed "Jim" for a time. Test career In his third first-class match, he hit 169 for Jamaica against the touring Australians in 1954–55, and was immediately included in the side for the First Test. He started his Test career scoring 104 on debut against Australia. But after a " pair" in the next match, he was dropped. He returned for the Fourth and Fifth Tests, and finished the series with 206 runs at 25.75 and 5 wickets at 68.00. He toured New Zealand in 1955–56, scoring 64 in the First Test and putting on 162 for the fourth wicket with Everton Weekes in 100 minutes. He was less successful with the bat in the next three Tests, finishing the series with 78 runs at 15.60, but his off-spin bowling brought 13 wickets at 18.53, including 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallis Mathias
Wallis Mathias (4 February 1935 – 1 September 1994) was a Pakistani cricketer who played in 21 Test matches from 1955 to 1962. A Catholic, he was the first non-Muslim cricketer to play for Pakistan. He belonged to Karachi's Goan community. The son of a porter at the Karachi Gymkhana Club, Mathias was a stylish right-handed middle-order batsman. He made three half centuries in his Test career, all of them against West Indies The West Indies is an island subregion of the Americas, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island country, island countries and 19 dependent territory, dependencies in thr .... In the Second Test against West Indies in Dacca in 1958–59, he top-scored in each innings with 64 and 45, as Pakistan won a low-scoring match by 41 runs. He was also a gifted slip fielder with exceptional reflexes, whose "great skill was to make hard chances look simple". According to Imtiaz Ahmed, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Hutton
Sir Leonard Hutton (23 June 1916 – 6 September 1990) was an English cricketer. He played as an Batting order (cricket)#Opening batsmen, opening batsman for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1934 to 1955 and for England national cricket team, England in 79 Test cricket, Test matches between 1937 and 1955. ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' described him as "one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket". He set a record in 1938 for the highest individual innings in a Test match in only his sixth Test appearance, scoring 364 Run (cricket), runs against Australia national cricket team, Australia, a milestone that stood for nearly 20 years (and remains an England Test record 84 years later as of 2023). Following the Second World War, he was the mainstay of England's batting. In 1952, he became the first professional cricketer of the 20th century to captain England in Tests; under his captaincy England won the Ashes the following year for the first time in 19 years. Marked o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Atkinson
Eric St Eval Atkinson (6 November 1927 – 29 May 1998) played eight Test matches for the West Indies. He was the younger brother of Denis Atkinson, and the two were the third pair of brothers to turn out together for the West Indies. His first Test, against Pakistan at Bridgetown in 1957–58, was Denis's last. Atkinson was primarily a seam bowler, taking 25 wickets in his one-year Test career. His best Test bowling figures came in against Pakistan in 1957–58, where he took 5 for 42 in the first innings of the Third Test – before Garry Sobers hit a Test record 365 not out and Pakistan went down by an innings and 174 runs. He made his first-class debut for Barbados in 1949-50 and up to the end of the 1956–57 season he had played 11 matches for Barbados, scoring 411 runs at 29.37 and taking 5 wickets at 96.00. He struck form with the ball in first match of the 1957–58 season, taking 4 for 70 for Barbados against the touring Pakistanis. He made his Test debut a fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasim-ul-Ghani
Nasim-ul-Ghani (born 14 May 1941) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 29 Test matches and one One Day International between 1958 and 1973. At the time of his debut, aged 16 years, he was the world's youngest Test player.What a waste Espncricinfo. Retrieved 20 March 2011 He became the first nightwatchman to score a century when he hit 101 against at in 1962. This was his only century in Test cricket, and it was also the first century by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haseeb Ahsan
Haseeb Ahsan (; 15 July 1939 – 8 March 2013) was a Pakistani cricketer who played 12 Test matches for Pakistan between 1958 and 1962. He was born in Peshawar North West Frontier Province, British India (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan). A right-arm off spinner, he took 27 wickets in Test cricket at an average of 49.25, including two five-wicket hauls. During his first-class career, he played 49 matches and took 142 wickets at an average of 27.71. Former Pakistan cricketer Waqar Hasan said about him that he "was a fighter to the core and served Pakistan cricket with honour and dignity." Ahsan had conflicts with former Pakistan captain Javed Burki. A controversy regarding his bowling action resulted in the premature end of his international career when he was only 23. He worked as chief selector, team manager of Pakistan, and member of the 1987 Cricket World Cup organising committee. He died in Karachi on 8 March 2013, aged 73. Cricketing career Ahsan played 49 first- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saeed Ahmed (cricketer, Born 1937)
Saeed Ahmed (; 1 October 1937 – 20 March 2024) was a Pakistani Test cricketer who captained the national team, and later became a preacher and member of Tablighi Jamaat. Born in 1937 at Jalandhar in what was then British Punjab, part of British India and educated at Government Islamia College in Lahore, Saeed's brother Younis Ahmed also played cricket for Pakistan. A right-handed middle order batsman with a powerful drive and bowled off-breaks, Saeed made his Test début on 17 January 1958 against West Indies at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados. He made 65 in the second innings, at one stage partnering with Hanif Mohammad who went on to make 337. Saeed finished the series with 508 runs. Saeed captained his side in three drawn Tests in 1968–69 but his career ended in controversial circumstances when he declared himself unfit for the third Test against Australia in 1972 due to what he claimed was a back injury. In the previous Test, he had been involved in a heat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Walcott
J. Harold Walcott (died 30 April 1995) was a West Indian cricket umpire. He stood in four Test matches between 1948 and 1958. He was the uncle of the West Indian cricketer Clyde Walcott.Clyde Walcott, Sixty years on the backfoot See also * List of Test cricket umpires __NOTOC__ This is a list of umpire (cricket), cricket umpires who have officiated at least one men's Test cricket, Test match. As of June 2025, 500 umpires have officiated in a Test match. Current members of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires, Emirate ... References Year of birth missing 1995 deaths Place of birth missing West Indian Test cricket umpires {{Barbados-cricket-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cortez Jordan
Hugh Cortez Jordan (1921 – 8 September 1982) was a Test cricket umpire from the West Indies between 1953 and 1974. In total, he oversaw 22 Test matches, all in the Caribbean and involving the West Indies team. His first Test, at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, on his home island of Barbados, saw the West Indies defeat India by 142 runs on 7–12 February 1953. Jordan umpired the first-class match between Barbados and the touring Indian team in March 1962, in which Charlie Griffith bowled a bouncer that struck Indian captain Nari Contractor on the back of his head at the start of the Indians' first innings. After being helped off the field, Contractor underwent emergency surgery to remove two blood clots on his brain. He was unconscious for six days, and the injury ending his international cricket career. Later in the same match, Jordan was the first of two umpires to call Griffith for throwing in a first-class match (the other being Arthur Fagg in a match against L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
