Asif Mohammad
Pakistani cricketer (born 1965)
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Asif Mohammad (born 21 December 1965) is a Pakistani former cricketer who played 115 first-class cricket matches in Pakistan, mostly for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), from 1979 to 2000.[1] His father was the cricketer Raees Mohammad, and his uncles Wazir, Hanif, Mushtaq and Sadiq all played Test cricket for Pakistan.[2]
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| Born | 21 December 1965 Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off-spin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Raees Mohammad (father) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1978-79 to 1996-97 | PIA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 19 February 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Asif toured Zimbabwe with PIA in 1981–82, playing in both first-class matches against Zimbabwe, and scored a century in the second match.[3] When the Sri Lanka Under-23 side toured Pakistan in 1983–84, he played in two of the three matches for the Pakistan Under-23 against the visitors.[4] His highest first-class score was 183 for PIA against Agriculture Development Bank in the semi-final of the Patron's Trophy in 1993–94, when he batted for ten and a half hours.[5] He was a member of PIA's title-winning teams in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in 1987–88[6] and 1989–90.[7]
In 1994, aged 29, Asif and his brother went to England to play for Scunthorpe Town Cricket Club in the Lincolnshire League.[8] He scored a century in each of his first three matches for Scunthorpe Town, and ended the season with a record 1,206 runs in the Lincolnshire League Premier Division, a record that still stands to this day, with seven centuries from his 15 innings.[8]