Dildar Awan

Dildar Mohammad Awan (1 November 1928 in Jullundur, India – 7 January 2000 in Lahore, Pakistan) was a Pakistani cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1958-59 to 1972-73.

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 Combined Services against Rawalpindi in December 1958. He was the most successful bowler in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy that season, taking 25 wickets at 16.36 and helping Combined Services into the final against Karachi. Karachi won the final by 279 runs, Awan taking three wickets, but the course of the match was overshadowed by the death of the Karachi wicket-keeper Abdul Aziz. Batting late on the first day, Aziz was struck on the chest by a slow off-break from Awan, fell to the ground a moment later, never regained consciousness, and died in the ambulance on the way to hospital. Later in the season Awan played for a Commander-in-Chief's XI against the touring West Indians, taking three wickets.

In 1961-62, bowling unchanged through each innings, he took 7 for 65 (his best innings figures) and 3 for 28 for Combined Services against Sargodha. A few days earlier he had taken 6 for 47 and 4 for 50 against Peshawar. In the second innings he and Salahuddin bowled unchanged through an innings of 125.3 overs. Awan had match figures of 80.5-44-97-10. In the final of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy against Karachi Blues, batting at number three in the second innings, he made his highest score, 32, the top score of the innings, but Karachi Blues won by four wickets. Awan played for a Combined XI against the touring MCC later in the season, taking two wickets in a match ruined by rain.