On This Day 9th October 1976 Javed Miandad made his Test debut

[dhump]

On this day Javed Miandad, the greatest batsman Pakistan has ever produced made his debut 36 years ago at the age of 19 Years and 119 days against New-Zeland at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore. He was the youngest cricketer to score a century, on debut, in a test match at the time.

Javed scored 163 runs, which included 14 boundaries and was part of 281 runs stand with Asif Iqbal for the fifth wicket.

 

[MenInG]

Those were the days my friend...

 

[Random Aussie]

Respect to the great man. He was one of the very very best.

 

[lilFlip]

^

Averaging 50+ during whole career the greatest indeed!

 

[Buffet]

Best batsman to play for Pakistan. He was one the best batsmen to play the game who used to put big prize on his wicket.

 

[lilFlip]

Why didn't he score his 300? (in 280* game)

 

[W63L35]

Best batsman to play for Pakistan.


Found a couple of his test innings at youtube.

His 131 vs Australia @ Adelaide in 1983 - against Lillee, Lawson and Hogg
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63358.html

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His 271 vs New Zealand @ Auckland in 1989 - against Sir Richard Hadlee

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63502.html

 

[MenInG]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OnThisDay</a> in 1976. The brilliant Javed Miandad aged only 19 scored 163 on Test debut against New Zealand in Lahore <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://t.co/wngqk4J2us">pic.twitter.com/wngqk4J2us</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1314463365763420161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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[Ab Fan]

One of all-time greats of the game. He will figure in my 1980s XI.

Gavaskar
Greenidge
Viv
Miandad
Border
Kapil
Imran
Dujon(wkt)
Hadlee
Marshall
Qadir