Dildar Awan

Dildar Mohammad Awan (1 November 1928 – 7 January 2000) was a Pakistani cricketer who played first-class cricket in Pakistan from 1958/59 to 1972/73. He was a right-arm off-spin bowler.^[1] He later became an umpire.

Career with Combined Services

Making his first-class debut a few weeks after turning 30, Awan took 5 for 19 and 3 for 16 in his first match, for

In 17 matches for Combined Services, he took 95 wickets at 15.50.[11]

Later career

The Combined Services team went into abeyance after 1964–65. After two matches for Sargodha in 1964-65 and 1965-66 Awan did not play again until the inaugural matches played by the Pakistan Air Force cricket team in 1969–70 when he was 40. He was their leading wicket-taker that season, with 10 wickets at 21.30,^[12] but the side lost all three of their matches. In 1970–71 he captained Pakistan Air Force to their only victory, over his old side Sargodha, taking match figures of 33–19–58–6.^[13]

He did not play in 1971–72, but he did stand as an umpire in two of Sargodha's matches.^[14] He returned to play in one last match in 1972–73, when at the age of 44 he opened the bowling for Pakistan Air Force and took 3 for 126 off 58 overs against Lahore B.^[15]

See also

• List of unusual deaths
• Ray Chapman, an American baseball player killed after being struck by a ball during a game. The only player in Major League Baseball history to die of an in-game injury
• List of fatal accidents in cricket

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