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| Born | 21 December 1965 Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off-spin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Raees Mohammad (father) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1978-79 to 1996-97 | PIA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,19 February 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Asif Mohammad (born 21 December 1965) is a Pakistani former cricketer who played 115 first-class cricket matches in Pakistan,mostly for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA),from 1979 to 2000. [1] His father was the cricketer Raees Mohammad,and his uncles Wazir,Hanif,Mushtaq and Sadiq all played Test cricket for Pakistan. [2]
Asif toured Zimbabwe with PIA in 1981–82,playing in both first-class matches against Zimbabwe,and scored a century in the second match. [3] When the Sri Lanka Under-23 side toured Pakistan in 1983–84,he played in two of the three matches for the Pakistan Under-23 against the visitors. [4] His highest first-class score was 183 for PIA against Agriculture Development Bank in the semi-final of the Patron's Trophy in 1993–94,when he batted for ten and a half hours. [5] He was a member of PIA's title-winning teams in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in 1987–88 [6] and 1989–90. [7]
In 1994,aged 29,Asif and his brother came to England to play for Scunthorpe Town Cricket Club playing in the Lincolnshire league [8] ,he made headlines scoring a century in each of his first 3 matches for Scunthorpe [9] . He ended the season with a record 1206 runs in the Lincolnshire League Premier Division,a record that still stands to this day,with 7 centuries from his 15 innings.