Legendary Cricketer Hanif Mohammad Dies

Sumaira FH Published August 11, 2016 | 09:06 PM

Legendary cricketer Hanif Mohammad dies

KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 11th August, 2016) : Former Pakistan batsman Hanif Mohammad, player of the world's longest test innings, died Thursday in a Karachi hospital after a prolonged illness, doctors said. The 81-year-old was famous for his dogged batting in Pakistan's nascent years in international cricket, having opened as a schoolboy for the country's first Test against India in Delhi in 1952.

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