Mian Mohammad Saeed (31 August 1910 – 23 August 1979) was a Pakistani cricketer, born in

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. He was the first

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of the

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Career

A right-handed batsman, Mohammad was the first captain of Pakistan, before they were awarded

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'' 1980, p. 1151. He led Pakistan against the touring West Indies team in 1948-49, when he scored a

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in the drawn match, and also led them against

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in Ceylon in 1948-49 ( Pakistan's first cricket tour) and in Pakistan in 1949–50. In a career that extended from 1930 to 1954, he played for various Indian teams, including Southern Punjab and

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in the

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in the 1930s and 1940s, and for Punjab cricket teams in Pakistan in the late 1940s and 1950s. In all first-class matches he made 2439 runs at an average of 29.74 with three centuries and a highest score of 175 for Northern India against Southern Punjab in the Ranji Trophy in 1946–47, when he captained Northern India to a 195-run victory. His son

Yawar Saeed Mian Yawar Saeed (22 January 1935 – 21 October 2015) was a Pakistani cricketer, who played 50 First-class cricket, first-class matches for Somerset County Cricket Club and nine matches for a variety of teams based in Pakistan between 1953 and 1 ...

played for Somerset, and his daughter married the Pakistani Test bowler

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 landma ...

. After retirement he served as a cricket administrator and at the time of his sudden death he was chairman of the Pakistan Test selectors.

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