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| Born | 1 July 1953 Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Role | Occasional Wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1971/72 | Pakistan International Airlines B | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1972/73–1974/75 | Public Works Department | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1973/74–1975/76 | Sind,incl. Sind A and Sind B | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1973/74 | Pakistan Universities | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1974/75 | Karachi Whites | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1975/76–1977/78 | Habib Bank Limited | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1978/79–1986/87 | Pakistan International Airlines | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,23 February 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rashid Israr (born 1 July 1953) is an Indian-born Pakistani retired cricketer. He played for 16 seasons in domestic cricket,between 1971 and 1987,as a specialist batter who often kept wicket. Israr scored eleven centuries during his career and has one of the highest scores recorded in a first-class match in Pakistan.
Born in Sitapur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh,on 1 July 1953, [1] Israr was the younger brother of Shahid Israr,who played a single Test match for Pakistan in 1976. [2] Israr made his debut in Pakistani cricket during the 1971/72 BCCP Trophy as part of a B squad for the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) departmental team. [3] In the match,he scored 34 and 19 in his two innings of batting. [4] He moved on to the Public Works Department (PWD) side for the 1972/73 event,which was renamed the BCCP Patron's Trophy by this time,and,in three matches,scored three half-centuries in four innings at the crease. [3] [5]
During the mid-1970s,Israr represented multiple teams simultaneously,often depending on the competition he was playing in. While representing PWD again in the 1973/74 Patron's Trophy,he also represented Sind [a] in the newly-formed Pentangular Trophy; [3] in the former,he made his first career century,taking around nine and a half hours to score an unbeaten 211 against Hyderabad. [7] Overall,he finished the year with a batting average of 61.71 in five total matches. [5] The following season,he represented three different teams in four different competitions:PWD in the Patron's Trophy,Sind in the Pentangular Trophy and the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, [b] and a Karachi Whites team in the final of the Kardar Summer Shield, [3] a short-lived event where only the final was considered a first-class match. [9] Between all four competitions,he scored 663 runs in 11 matches at an average of 39.00. [5]
Israr appeared in eight different competitions in Pakistan during the 1975/76 season,five with first-class status and three with List A status, [3] [10] [c] which he split between two teams representing Sind and the Habib Bank Limited cricket team (HBL). His overall numbers in first-class matches fell to 417 runs in a season,with his batting average falling nearly seven points to 32.07. [5] In seven List A matches,he only managed a high of 29 runs in an innings,with 67 runs total. [11]
In the 1976/77 campaign,Israr spent the full domestic season with HBL. [3] [10] He would set a personal best that year with 911 runs in 10 matches, [5] a total that ranked third among all domestic cricketers in Pakistan behind Javed Miandad and Mohsin Khan;both were teammates of Israr's at HBL at times during the year. [12] In helping the team win the Patron's Trophy against the National Bank of Pakistan cricket team,he scored 350 in an innings during the final. [13] He stayed at the crease for roughly twelve and a half hours of match time to score his total before being dismissed. [14] At the time,Israr's 350 was the third-highest score in Pakistan's domestic cricket history,behind only the then-world record of 499 by Hanif Mohammad in 1959 [d] and a score of 428 by Aftab Baloch in 1974. [16] [e] Coincidentally,Aftab was responsible for dismissing Israr by stumping him to end his innings. [13] Israr's 1977/78 season was his final one with HBL. [17] While appearing in two more matches than the previous campaign,he managed over 300 fewer runs,though his batting average remained above his career numbers. [5] [18]
For the 1978/79 season,Israr rejoined PIA's cricket team. [17] In his first Quaid-e-Azam match for the side,he scored his third and final double-century against Punjab, [19] [20] en route to a 648-run season that saw him record his highest batting average,72.00,over a full season. [5] The season also included his final century,an unbeaten 174,during a Patron's Trophy match against Multan that was conceded to PIA before the innings could finish. [21] [5]
His runs and appearances would decline sharply over the rest of his tenure with PIA,starting with a 1979/80 season that was limited to four matches and featured his lowest season batting average at the time. [5] Seven matches and over 350 runs followed the next year,though an improved 35.80 average was still below average for his career. [5] [18] From 1981 to 1985,he would fail to reach 200 runs in a season. [5] Despite this,he appeared in his only match outside of Pakistan during 1981/82,when PIA toured Zimbabwe to play first-class and List A matches against their cricket team; [22] his lone first-class match saw him total eight runs,two more than he would score in his two one-day matches combined. [11] [5]
After not appearing in a match during the 1985/86 year,he reappeared for PIA at the end of the following season in 1987,when he was chosen for their PACO Cup [f] final match against United Bank Limited. In the match,ultimately a win for PIA,he managed 20 runs in the two innings combined. [24] Overall,his career ended with 4,905 first-class runs,in addition to 152 in List A matches. [18]