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On This Day: October 27, 1969 - Hanif Mohammad played his last Test match
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Career Stats:
Last Test Scorecard:
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63048.html
PakPassion Interivew
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The True Little Master "Hanif Mohammad"
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Cometh the crisis to end all crises, cometh Hanif Mohammad. He scored 337 in an occupation of 16 hours 39 minutes. It was the longest innings ever known. The Test was drawn and Hanif, for his pains, had three layers of skin burned away beneath his eyes by the harsh glare reflected from the pitch.
Having thus erased Sir Leonard Hutton's name from the record book on one score he soon turned his attention to another knight and another long-held record: Sir Donald Bradman's 452 not out, established 30 years earlier. In a Trophy match against Bahawalpur in Karachi, the year after his Barbados innings, he smashed that, too, by scoring 499 in just short of 11 hours before running himself out trying to get the strike in the final over of the day.
Wisden
Few major innings since the war have provoked such contradictory critical appraisal as that played by Pakistan's captain in the Lord's Test of 1967. It began at 4.40 p.m. on Friday, July 27, and ended only when he ran out of partners at 3.24 p.m. the following Monday.
His actual entrenchment at the crease, after deductions for rain, meals, sleep and an interminable English Sabbath, lasted nine hours two minutes and his eventual score was 187 not out.
Wisden About Hanifs Patient Heroics against England at Lords
Match Score Card
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/63007.html
Hanif was the first star of Pakistan cricket, the "Little Master" who played the longest innings in Test history - his 970-minute 337 against West Indies in Bridgetown in 1957-58 - then followed it a year later with the highest first-class innings to that point, 499 run out. With such feats, broadcast on radio, he turned cricket in Pakistan from the preserve of the Lahore educated elite into the mass sport it is today. Although famous for his immaculate defence and never hitting the ball in the air, Hanif could also attack, and was probably the originator of the reverse-sweep. His versatility extended to captaining and keeping wicket, and bowling right- and left-handed in Test cricket. But in addition to being the jack of all trades, he was the master of one.
Scyld Berry
Career Stats:
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Last Test Scorecard:
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63048.html
PakPassion Interivew
http://www.pakpassion.net/articles/pakpassion_presents_an_exclusive_interview_with_hanif_mohammad
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