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Hanif’s Elder Brother and Pakistan’s Test Pioneer Wazir Mohammad Passes Away at 95
Former Pakistan cricketer Wazir Mohammad, passed away at Solihull, England at 95. He was Pakistan's oldest living Test cricketer, since the death of Israr Ali in 2016. Cricket has lost a legend and that’s why his demise was reported in almost the entire cricketing world. He was the eldest of Pakistan's famous Mohammad brothers. Out of the other fours, Raees was unlucky not to play Tests while Hanif Mohammad, Mushtaq Mohammad and Sadiq Mohammad were among the top cricketers.
The Mohammad family migrated from undivided India in 1947 and took shelter in an abandoned temple in Karachi. Wazir not only started earning for the family, played cricket and took interest in the development of his younger brothers. In one of the finest books on Pakistan cricket history, ‘Wounded Tiger’, Peter Oborne has quoted Mushtaq, “when Raees came back from his office (Wazir and Raees had found jobs at Habib Bank), we’d give him a chair where he would sit down and just keep feeding us the tennis ball from about 15 yards and he would turn the ball sideways for hours and hours. He would set a field and make us think about where we needed to play the ball.” This way he prepared the future Test stars.
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