Waqar Hasan
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| Full name | Waqar Hasan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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12 September 1932 Amritsar, Punjab, British India (now India) |
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Pervez Sajjad (brother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 11) | 16 October 1952 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 21 November 1959 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 10 March 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Waqar Hasan (Urdu: وقارحسن; born 12 September 1932, Amritsar) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 21 Tests from 1952 to 1959.
An "attractive stroke-making right-handed batsman, who was ideal in a crisis", Waqar Hasan played in Pakistan's first 18 Tests, including its first five victories.
In Pakistan's first Test series, against India in 1952-53, he was the highest scorer on either side, with 357 runs at an average of 44.62, playing several defiant innings when Pakistan were in trouble. He was less successful on the 1954 tour of England, with 103 runs at 14.71, but impressed with his fielding in the covers.
He scored his only Test century against New Zealand in 1955-56 at Lahore, when he made 189 in 430 minutes, adding 309 for the seventh wicket with Imtiaz Ahmed after the score had been 111 for 6. His 189 set a new record for Pakistan's highest Test score which lasted only until Ahmed (who made 209) overtook it the next day. Hasan played five more Tests without reaching 50.
He played first-class cricket in Pakistan from 1949 to 1966, with a highest score of 201 not out for L. W. Cannon's XI against Hasan Mahmood's XI in 1953-54. He captained Karachi Blues to victory in the final of the 1963-64 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy and in his last first-class match he captained them to victory in the 1964-65 competition.
In 1954 he joined the Pakistan Public Works Department, but in the 1960s he went into business. He became Corporate Director of National Foods Limited, one of Pakistan's largest food companies. In 2002, with the assistance of the cricket journalist Qamar Ahmed, he wrote For Cricket and Country: An Autobiography.
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