Sarfraz Nawaz

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Sarfraz Nawaz
Personal information
Full name
Sarfraz Nawaz Malik
Born (1948-12-01) 1 December 1948 (age 75)
Bowler
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 59)6 March 1969 v England
Last Test19 March 1984 v England
ODI debut (cap 9)11 February 1973 v New Zealand
Last ODI12 November 1984 v New Zealand
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1980–1984Lahore
1969–1982Northamptonshire
1976–1977United Bank Limited
1975–1976Pakistan Railways
1975Punjab A
1968–1972Punjab University
1967–1968Lahore
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 55 45 299 228
Runs scored 1,045 221 5,709 1,721
Batting average 17.71 9.60 19.35 15.36
100s/50s 0/4 0/0 0/17 0/3
Top score 90 34* 90 92
Balls bowled 13,951 2,412 55,692 11,537
Wickets 177 63 1,005 319
Bowling average 32.75 23.22 24.62 20.88
5 wickets in innings 4 0 46 3
10 wickets in match 1 0 4 0
Best bowling 9/86 4/27 9/86 5/15
Catches/stumpings 26/– 8/– 163/– 43/–
Source: CricketArchive, 10 May 2009

Sarfraz Nawaz Malik (

reverse swing
.

Personal life

Family background

His Arain family business was in the construction sector, a field he was himself involved in before going into professional cricket.

Cinema

He married Pakistani film actress Rani in 1985, and he himself had film offers during the 70s, for instance in 1974 while in England or later on from influential Pakistani film director Yunus Malik of Maula Jatt fame, but always refused them considering that acting is not his forte.[3]

Cricket career

Early career

In his first Test – against England at

India at Karachi gave Pakistan victory in the third and final Test by eight wickets. He took 17 wickets (25.00) in the series, the most by any player and Pakistan won their first Test series against their rivals despite having played them since 1952.[8]

Australia 1978–79

Sarfraz's greatest bowling performance took place in the First Test at

tailender Rodney Hogg had been run out while 'gardening' and Alan Hurst controversially ran out Sikander Bakht when backing up, two pieces of gamesmanship which caused bad feeling between the teams.[10][11][12]
Australia made 236/3 to win the Test and square the series, the other two batsmen being run out and no bowler taking a wicket.

Later career

Sarfraz played for

England.[14]

Style

Being 6’6'’ tall,

reverse swing. Commentators did not realise this was reverse swing at the time, though they realised that he had an uncanny ability to move the old ball in the air. He passed on his knowledge to Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, who made this new type of bowling famous in the late 1980s and 1990s.[6][16]
As a batsman he was a good lower-order striker of the ball particularly when driving and averaged over 40 in a series on three occasions.

Battle against match fixing

When

Inzamam Ul Haq were getting threats from the bookies without naming his sources. He requested the involvement of Scotland Yard in the investigations, questioning the credibility of Jamaican police. He also alleged that the match Pakistan lost against West Indies in the 2007 Cricket World Cup was fixed.[citation needed
]

Political career

In 1985, Sarfraz left cricket and joined politics.[17] He was elected as a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as an independent candidate in 1985 Pakistani general election.[17]

References

  1. ^ Majeed, Zohaib Ahmed (10 October 2019). "10 of the very best pace legends to play for Pakistan". Geo Super. Retrieved 21 January 2023. The potshot aside, this 6'6 Nawaz invented (or at the very least perfected) the art of reverse swing [...]
  2. ^ "Sarfraz Nawaz Biography". Yahoo! Cricket. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  3. ^ Chaudhry, Ijaz (11 February 2012). "I did not have a lethal weapon in my armoury". The Cricket Monthly. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  4. ^ "The Home of CricketArchive". cricketarchive.com.
  5. ^ "Australia v Pakistan in 1972/73". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  6. ^ a b c d e p78, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Cricket Characters, Stanley Paul & Co Ltd, 1987
  7. ^ p132, Peter Arnold, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Cricket, W.H. Smith, 1986
  8. ^ p171, Peter Arnold, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Cricket, W.H. Smith, 1986
  9. ^ "Eight or More Wickets in an Innings in Test Cricket". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  10. ^ p156, Peter Arnold, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Cricket, W.H. Smith, 1986
  11. Cricinfo
    . Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  12. Cricinfo
    . Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  13. ^ p134, Peter Arnold, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Cricket, W.H. Smith, 1986
  14. ^ pp170-171, Peter Arnold, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Cricket, W.H. Smith, 1986
  15. ^ "Sarfraz Nawaz". Inside Sport. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  16. ^ "Swing and seam bowling: Reverse Swing". BBC Sport. 19 August 2005. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  17. ^ a b Faruqi, Seema (9 August 2013). "A different kind of match".

External links

Preceded by
Pakistan cricket captain

1983–1984 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Nelson Cricket Club
Professional
1972–1973 		Succeeded by
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