A center request batsman, Waqar's first trip in Test cricket wasn't excessively propitious, as he scored 8 and 5 out of an innings rout, yet he finished the five-Test arrangement as Pakistan's most noteworthy run-producer, with 357 runs at a normal of 44.62, including three half-hundreds of years.
Waqar proceeded to play 21 Test matches over the span of a top of the line profession that traversed over 10 years and a half, from 1948-49 to 1965-66. He completed with 1071 runs in 35 Test innings, a normal of 31.50, and hit a century and six half-hundreds of years. His top-notch normal was 35.64.
"It gives me monstrous fulfillment to have accomplished numerous firsts for Pakistan: first to score 50 years in quite a while of a Test [Bombay, 1952-53], first Test 50 years in England [Lord's, 1954], first Test 50 years at home, and first to score two half-hundreds of years in a home Test [Dacca, 1954-55], first-century association [with Hanif Mohammad, Bombay, 1952-53], first twofold century organization [with Imtiaz Ahmed, Lahore, 1955-56]," Waqar related in a meeting with The Cricket Monthly in November 2012, by which time he had begun parting his time among Karachi and London.
Waqar likewise filled in as a national selector, in spells during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Pakistan Veterans Cricket Association (PVCA) executive Fawad Ijaz Khan on Monday mourned Waqar's destruction.
Source: THE NEWS
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